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/ 31 October 2007
Today in South Africa we have a growing element of people who, because of the level of brutality they exhibit, could be classified as feral in their actions — feral meaning wild and untamed, as defined by the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, writes Mary R Tomlinson.
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/ 31 October 2007
A tropical island off the coast of Taiwan has become a victim of its own success as pollution caused by a recent spike in tourism threatens its reputation as the best diving spot in East Asia. The aptly named 15 square kilometre Green Island, an hour’s ferry ride from Taiwan’s main isle, is fast losing its lustre due to garbage and excrement dumped into its azure waters and shrinking reefs plundered by coral-robbing tourists.
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/ 31 October 2007
The continuing succession debate in the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) should focus more on devising strategies to manage the change of leadership and less on bashing party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi over perceptions that he is clinging to power, argues Zukile Majova.
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/ 31 October 2007
For those who take their lead from the old ideologies that sought to shape this country and failed so abysmally, the very idea of a Black Management Forum was and remains a cheeky notion — for blacks can only be drawers of water and hewers of wood. If black management generically were to fail, that Verwoerdian postulation would rise triumphantly from the graveyard of racial ideology, writes Bheki Khumalo.
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/ 31 October 2007
We read often about the skills revolution initiated by the democratic government in South Africa since 1994. And, 13 years into democracy, it is important to revisit the notion and see where and whether the revolution has taken place. Careful analysis of South Africa’s human resource development strategy shows that in many respects it is one of the most ambitious and best of any country in the world.
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/ 31 October 2007
As is the case elsewhere in the world, South Africans who are materially better off report relatively greater levels of subjective well-being. But while marriage is a recipe for higher levels of happiness in the industrialised world, empirical research suggests that marital status plays no significant role in influencing South Africans’ happiness levels.
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/ 31 October 2007
Waterless or composting toilets are being touted as a promising solution to many of South Africa’s sanitation woes.Just less than 14-million of the country’s citizens lack access to sanitation and about 200 000 households are reliant on the bucket system. As more demands are placed on national water resources, it appears increasingly unlikely that homes without sanitation will be able to receive the popular flush toilet
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/ 31 October 2007
Information technology has lived through hardware wars, software wars, operating system wars, browser wars and is now preparing for a new one. The spoils in this battle are your documents. As an increasing number of users are turning to the web for Microsoft Office-type capabilities, but without the Microsoft Office price tag, a battle is being waged to provide these services — and more.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Big Game was a victory for The Real Man and a crushing defeat for the illusion that we will ever admire anything as much as a good bit of bone-crunching. Sure, we’ll nod and smile in the general direction of the man wearing the Amanda Laird Cherry shirt and the baby carrier. Even rugby players appear in <i>GQ</i> and <i>Cosmo</i> Man spreads, wearing fine suits and not running into one another.
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/ 31 October 2007
For a room in which one of the most astonishing experiments in modern science is being conducted, the laboratory in the J Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, is understated. It is divided into wooden workstations reminiscent of a school science lab. There are stacks of glass test tubes and pipettes, and one wall is lined with air-controlled boxes containing Petri dishes, writes Ed Pilkington.