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/ 18 December 2007
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals, set at the turn of the century, made up the most aspirational development programme ever devised. But a progress report published recently by Unicef says that even though more babies are surviving, more children are in school and fewer families live in poverty, urgent action is needed if the goals are to be met by the target date of 2015.
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/ 18 December 2007
I call her "the torturer" to her face, as do most of her clients, but that never elicits anything other than a broad smile and a smug nod. She’s diminutive, has delicate features and a soft nature, yet the pain she inflicts easily brings tears to the eyes of her many clients. Three years after being a regular customer of hers, I still wriggle and scream out loud.
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/ 18 December 2007
Though it is not for the first time in the history of the ANC that there is a leadership contest, it is true that we have not seen such a fierce contest in recent history. The ANC is a democratic organisation and this contest is a manifestation of democracy and, of course, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma tells the Mail & Guradian‘s Mandy Rossouw.
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/ 18 December 2007
The national executive committee (NEC) of the ANC is likely to see the infusion of the next generation of party leaders in its highest decision- making structure. The battle for a position in the structure is one of the most contested in the ANC’s history, with 158 people competing for 60 spots. The number will exceed 158 as those losing out on the top six officials positions automatically fall into the pool of NEC candidates.
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/ 18 December 2007
The idea of children crossing borders often conjures up images of paedophile rings, clandestine smuggling operations and helpless, vulnerable children, whisked away from their loved ones. Increasingly, however, foreign children living in South Africa are found to have left their homes willingly, in search of a better life here.
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/ 18 December 2007
Critical negotiations over how to combat climate change moved at a snail’s pace as the United States hesitated to commit itself to action at the United Nations’s climate change conference in Bali this week. The negotiations were meant to result in a “Bali road map” of recommendations on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but this had not been finalised by Thursday.
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/ 18 December 2007
The beauty of Russia’s political system is that you do not need an election to know the name of the next president. No primaries, no caucuses, no real campaigning and fundamentally no choice. Russia’s next president was announced this week by the current one. He will be the First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
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/ 18 December 2007
Understanding the role of the ANC treasurer general, and the books that he will hand to his successor, sheds light on the course of the ruling party. The manner in which the ANC treasury operates sadly has come to represent the worst feature of modern democracy: the secret embrace between money and politics, where two is company and the electorate makes an unwelcome crowd, writes Hennie van Vuuren.
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/ 18 December 2007
The doctor who is alleged to have falsified a medical certificate for Ekurhuleni police chief Robert McBride shortly after he crashed his car is still missing, a week after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Doctor Joseph Moratioa has failed to appear to answer to charges of fraud and of defeating the ends of justice.
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/ 18 December 2007
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Sabelo “Shanée” Moroka (a woman trapped in a man’s body, trapped in a big tent at the ANC conference), wonders what we’ll eventually get to see on Polokwane: The DVD. What a day, dear diary, what a day! Finally got the piece of plastic which allows me into the conference!