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/ 5 December 2007
Nearly two years after the internationally acclaimed author Orhan Pamuk narrowly escaped imprisonment for statements that were thought to ”insult Turkishness”, the publisher of a British writer goes on trial on Wednesday accused of the same charge.
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/ 5 December 2007
Rupert Murdoch is out to prove that you can serve God and mammon after all. The tycoon’s Fox Entertainment has bought beliefnet, the largest online faith and spirituality network. The site is a portal that includes interviews with celebrities and politicians, social networking tools, inspirational stories and sacred text searches.
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/ 5 December 2007
Police involved in Tuesday’s arrest of journalists reporting on a car accident in Lenasia should be investigated, the South African National Editor’s Forum (Sanef) said. ”Sanef requests an investigation into the conduct of the police for this unwarranted interference with journalists carrying out their duties,” the forum said.
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/ 5 December 2007
The JSE remained firm at noon on Wednesday in line with overseas markets, while ongoing mergers and acquisitions talk and higher commodity prices boosted miners. But investors remained jittery ahead of the local central bank’s interest rate decision on Thursday afternoon.
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/ 5 December 2007
After putting his seedlings to bed in the world-famous Banaue rice terraces in the northern Philippines, farmer Gabriel Balicdon works as a tourist guide and buys rice from the grocer. Built by Ifugaos — illiterate mountain farmers and woodcarvers — at about the same time the Pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China were being constructed, the terraces look like giant staircases leading to the clouds.
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/ 5 December 2007
The call by the Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel, to review BEE has fuelled similar calls from organisations such as the DA, Solidarity, IFP and the Freedom Front Plus. But what elements of BEE/affirmative action need to be reviewed? These groups argue that policies marginalise whites and the poor of previously disadvantaged groups.
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/ 5 December 2007
A profound sense of disempowerment among emerging farmers has come to light following FNB’s announcement of a R300million deal with United States development agency USAid. The deal will see the agency guaranteeing half the loans the bank extends to black farmers, writes Barrie Terblanche.
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/ 5 December 2007
Therapy is a necessary part of recovery for survivors of abuse, but many are too traumatised to talk about their experiences.
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/ 5 December 2007
As families disintegrate in the face of Aids and rural poverty bites deeper, a steady stream of job-seekers arrives in Johannesburg.
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/ 5 December 2007
Maintenance prosecutor René Botha quit her job as attorney the day she realised she was helping "the wrong people". Today Botha is one of the most important and successful torchÂbearers for neglected children, women and men in Johannesburg who do not receive the maintenance they are entitled to.