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/ 17 October 2007
The boom in the global knowledge economy has placed universities at the centre of most countries’ economic development. Universities have become catalysts of the knowledge economy and breeding grounds for the skills and expertise needed not only in industries, but in the public sector too. Hence governments and corporate sector giants have continued to invest in universities, which is mutually beneficial.
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/ 17 October 2007
In the United Kingdom today only 5,6% of reported rapes end in a conviction. ”I think there should be a Women: where not to go tourist map,” says historian Joanna Bourke, only half joking. It was these statistics that enraged Bourke and transformed the writing of her latest book, Rape, A History from 1860 to the Present.
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/ 17 October 2007
Gingerly touching the bruises on her forehead, Enkhmaa — a middle-aged mother and illegal gold miner — explains why she is afraid to go out on the street with a green plastic bowl. Three days earlier, she says, the Mongolian police seized, beat and imprisoned her for wandering too close to a foreign-owned mine.
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/ 17 October 2007
There seems to be a baby boom at the moment. People are having babies all over the place, which is fabulous if you adore babies in general, but not so fabulous if you’re not that keen on them, unless they’re yours or closely related, then you can gaze adoringly at the little miracles for ever. I find that 10 minutes admiring the dinky little fingers and heavenly widgy face and saying, “What a lovely baby”, is about enough for me.
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/ 17 October 2007
When the University of the North (Unin) and the Medical University of Southern Africa (Medunsa) merged to create the University of Limpopo (UL), the new institution was bound to inherit both the strengths and weaknesses of its constituting parts.
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/ 17 October 2007
Spain’s journal of record, El País, is set for a bold new makeover aimed at attracting younger readers and as a step toward its goal of becoming the Hispanic world’s equivalent of the International Herald Tribune. ”The ultimate aim is to become a global newspaper,” editor-in-chief Javier Moreno said.
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/ 16 October 2007
Last year I had the difficult responsibility of addressing a memorial service at AngloGold’s Tau Tona mine, where five miners perished under the rocks. The recovery process was drawn out and emotionally tormenting. I kept imagining the grim faces of the families. At such times my imagination is not driven by a scavenging process that seeks a target to blame, writes Frans Baleni.
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/ 16 October 2007
This is no time for panic, or for manic depression of the sort that Xolela Mangcu displayed in a column last weekend. This is politics, not rugby — so the national state of mind should be governed by clear-headed questions, not by the hyperbole of triumph and disaster. We must keep a sense of perspective.
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/ 16 October 2007
Western Cape police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday scoffed at claims that police are about to arrest Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker. ”We wish to state that there is no truth in reports that [they] will be arrested and/or be brought before court this week,” NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali said.
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/ 16 October 2007
A senior Fifa official gave his seal of approval on Tuesday to South Africa’s preparations for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, playing down concerns about stadium construction after a recent strike. ”I am satisfied with the general preparations,” Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke said.