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/ 19 November 2007
The two-week strike by construction workers at Durban’s Moses Mabhida 2010 stadium may end on Monday, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said. NUM spokesperson Bonginkosi Mncwabe said an offer had been made by the building contractor, the Group Five/WBHO consortium.
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/ 19 November 2007
Ukraine was on Sunday night mourning one of the deadliest mining disasters in its 16-year history as an independent country, after at least 56 people were killed in an underground explosion — with 44 still missing. Rescue teams said there was almost no hope of finding more survivors at the Donbass colliery in eastern Ukraine.
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/ 19 November 2007
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday rubber-stamped President Pervez Musharraf’s contested re-election victory in October, after he purged the court of hostile judges. ”Five petitions have been dismissed. One is pending and it will be heard on Thursday,” said the Attorney General Malik Qayyum.
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/ 19 November 2007
South Africa is a leader in how human rights issues are dealt with at the United Nations, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday. The department was responding to a Sunday Times report that the country’s human rights reputation was ”in tatters” after a series of ”sell-out” votes.
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/ 19 November 2007
Daihatsu’s funky little Sirion has had a facelift, and the Sports model has been given a 15% increase in capacity to give it performance more in line with its name and image. Ever since its launch in 2005, the third-generation Daihatsu Sirion has received favourable comment from the press. Although a diminutive hatchback in appearance, the Sirion offered loads of interior space.
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/ 19 November 2007
Government is paying parents to save for their children’s higher education. The Association of Collective Investments — in partnership with the education department — has launched a savings plan for tertiary education where government pays an additional 25% of whatever parents have saved for the year as a bonus to beef up the savings plan, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 19 November 2007
Even though economic growth is substantial and social service delivery — while not as fast as we want — is reaching millions, Aids will continue to kill hundreds of thousands in South Africa, burdening families and orphaning children. Recent research in Swaziland presents a picture that is disastrous and deteriorating.
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/ 19 November 2007
"This thing of rape," said Colonel Edmond Ngarambe, shifting uneasily on his wooden bench high in the mountains of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, "I can’t deny that happens. We are human beings. But it’s not just us. The Mai Mai, the government soldiers who are not paid, the Rastas do the same thing. And some people sent by our enemies do it to cause anger against us."
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/ 19 November 2007
The people of Delmas are suffering from an epidemic that does not officially exist. Despite the death of an infant and the treatment of 690 people in Botleng for diarrhoea in the past two weeks, authorities say they can find no cure for the illness sweeping the area. Residents fear this is a recurrence of an outbreak of typhoid in 2005, which was caused by municipal water being contaminated with human faeces.
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/ 19 November 2007
In September 2006 I sought to prevent the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> from publishing a story detailing allegations of possible fraud, violations of tender rules and contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act that took place while I was head of the South African Post Office, writes Maanda Manyatshe.