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/ 10 January 2008
Mark Twain wrote that the only way to maintain one’s health was to "eat what you don’t want to eat, drink what you don’t like and do what you’d rather not". While keeping healthy requires sacrifice, the benefits will leave you feeling better and happier than before.
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/ 10 January 2008
A friend, and also a brilliant maths teacher, told me that as a child in Hitler’s Germany she stretched out her little arm in the "Heil Hitler" salute.
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/ 10 January 2008
The ANC, blithely ignoring all the warnings before its Polokwane conference, has got itself in a pretty pickle over Jacob Zuma. That much was obvious from its national executive committee meeting this week, which spent hours debating what to do about the detailed graft, money-laundering and racketeering charges now laid against the ANC president.
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/ 10 January 2008
Do trade unions live up to their members’ expectations and are they in tune with members’ needs?
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/ 10 January 2008
I’ve often bemoaned the lack of interesting, affordable, off-the-beaten-track local places to visit for short breaks and weekends. But now I have found one – Lesheba Wilderness – and to my shame it has been around for 14 years, hidden at the top of the magnificent Soutpansberg mountains, a short hop from Louis Trichardt.
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/ 10 January 2008
Seventy of South Africa’s top teachers gathered at the Presidential Guesthouse at the end of last year for the annual National Teachers’ Awards.
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/ 10 January 2008
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plunged straight into the next, nationwide stage of the battle for the Democratic nomination on Wednesday after Clinton’s stunning comeback in the New Hampshire primary, both embarking on a fresh round of campaign events and fundraising. Clinton, having regained frontrunner status, announced a series of rallies, political endorsements and campaign events across 14 states.
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/ 10 January 2008
As adult obesity balloons in the United States, being overweight has become less of a health hazard and more of a lifestyle choice, the author of a new book argues. ”Obesity is a natural extension of an advancing economy. As you become a First World economy and you get all these labour-saving devices and low-cost, easily accessible foods, people are going to eat more and exercise less,” health economist Eric Finkelstein says.
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/ 10 January 2008
Jacob Zuma’s blitzkrieg for control of the ANC was triumphantly concluded this week with the election of the new national working committee (NWC), the party’s 28-member inner leadership core. The NWC, charged with the day-to-day running of the ANC, will spearhead the next stage in Zuma’s campaign — the attritional warfare for control of government that will likely be more reminiscent of Stalingrad.