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/ 15 October 2007
The state of the South African breast is not good. Mammography is not generally available to the poor and breast cancer has become the second-biggest killer of black women. There will be about 1,25-million new cases of breast cancer diagnosed this year in the world. The life-time risk for getting breast cancer is now between one in 10 and one in seven, writes Paul Sneider.
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/ 15 October 2007
The failing education system is creating a talent crisis that will only get worse as South Africa becomes a recipient of further foreign fixed investment. These are the findings of the Global Talent index, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit and international executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles.
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/ 15 October 2007
Centuries of troubles have bobbed on the waves off the Mosquito Coast: Christopher Columbus, the Spanish conquest, pirates, slave ships. For the fishing villages scattered across these remote central American shores there was seldom reason to welcome visits from the outside world.
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/ 15 October 2007
Whenever a head of state or government faces trial these days, human rights activists say the event is unprecedented. Slobodan Milosevic’s trial was "ground-breaking"; the conviction of Jean Kambanda of Rwanda was "historic"; the trial of Charles Taylor of Liberia was "a break with the past".
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/ 15 October 2007
When British dotcom entrepreneur Calum Brannan had his first meeting with potential investors last year, he immediately encountered a problem. My uncle had driven me down to Cambridge from Coventry for the meeting, and came to sit in on it with me," he said. "But they thought he ran the website and started talking to him instead of me."
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/ 15 October 2007
The Airports Company South Africa has spoken out about the "challenges" presented by the construction industry. In its annual report, presented to Parliament, the company complained about the construction skills shortage, long lead times for material supplies, rapidly escalating costs because of capacity constraints and a tender environment that favours contractors.
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/ 15 October 2007
Uganda’s top negotiator in peace talks with the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting that the government will ask the Hague-based International Criminal Court to drop arrest warrants against the rebels’ top commanders only after the LRA renounces its insurgency.
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/ 15 October 2007
A former crime journalist was shot and killed while leaving church in Woodlands on Sunday, Pietermaritzburg police said. Superintendent Henry Budhram said Elaine Anderson -– a former crime reporter for the Witness newspaper — was allegedly leaving church in her car when she was confronted by two armed men on Sunday night.
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/ 15 October 2007
President Thabo Mbeki has told the nation in the past that if anybody has evidence of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s involvement with organised crime figures they should bring it to him. Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said the same. People are afraid to speak out.
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/ 15 October 2007
A special task team representing South African universities is expected to report to Education Minister Naledi Pandor early next year about the feasibility of government regulation of tuition fees. The task team was set up under the auspices of Higher Education South Africa, which represents all universities, following a request by Pandor earlier this year that the sector consider whether fees should have a ceiling or be determined within certain parameters.