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/ 18 February 2008
The definition of an “ideal employer” is very different for South African graduates compared with their European and North American counterparts, according to a new survey. Conducted by Magnet Communication, the survey reveals that graduates from Europe and the United States select companies such as Apple and Google as their ideal employers even though these companies recruit very few graduates.
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/ 18 February 2008
The Zambian government’s attempt to increase earnings from its rich copper deposits by raising mineral taxes to global norms is meeting with resistance from mining companies, which signed legally binding development agreements based on a 0,6% royalty tax. Finance Minister Ng’andu Magande announced in his national budget last month that government had revised the tax regime for the mining industry.
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/ 18 February 2008
A winter without enough electricity looks likely. But as government proposes switching energy sources to alternative fuels, such as liquid petroleum gas (LPG), problems in pricing and supply will hamper any major roll-out of LPG for the domestic market. LPG, supplied and marketed by major gas companies can be used as an alternative fuel source to heat water and cook in the home.
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/ 18 February 2008
”There are numerous cases of no-fee schools that did not receive their allocations. Some things require checking and monitoring and I include myself in some of the failings. Now, every week I want a report on no-fee schools and I don’t take things at face value, ” education minister Naledi Pandor tells Ferial Haffajee.
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/ 18 February 2008
Thembekile Mankayi is 49 years old. In 1995, when he was 37, he contracted silicosis and silico-tuberculosis from inhaling silica dust while working for Anglo American’s Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining Company, which later became AngloGold Ashanti. He was awarded a lump sum of R16 320 after contracting the illness.
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/ 18 February 2008
Travelling in private jets, helicopters and bulletproof limousines, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, a staunch supporter of President Pervez Musharraf, is hard on the campaign trail for Monday’s Pakistani general election. But at his lavishly funded, tightly guarded rallies there is a striking absence: any mention of Musharraf.
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/ 18 February 2008
If your religious festivals follow lunar phases and seasonal solstices, you will be happy to know that marriage under pagan rite and ritual is now a possibility for South Africans. The South African Pagan Rights Alliance (Sapra) has been designated by the department of home affairs a religious organisation under section 5 of the Civil Union Act (17 of 2006).
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/ 18 February 2008
The enterprises division in Eskom was responsible for the processes that culminated in the award of the tenders to which you refer in “Moosa in R38-billion tender conflict”. The innuendo that this process was in some way flawed or subject to political influence is totally unfounded, writes Brian A Dames.
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/ 18 February 2008
Presidential candidate Simba Makoni used the word “renewal” a total of 13 times during an exclusive interview with the Mail & Guardian, saying Zimbabwe needed fresh leadership to “heal the wounds” of 28 years of President Robert Mugabe’s rule. Makoni, who declared his candidacy recently, predicts a landslide win against Mugabe.
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/ 18 February 2008
Travelling in private jets, helicopters and bulletproof limousines, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, a staunch supporter of President Pervez Musharraf, is hard on the campaign trail for Monday’s Pakistani general election. But at his lavishly funded, tightly guarded rallies there is a striking absence: any mention of Musharraf.