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/ 25 September 2007
Research done at the University of Cape Town shows that advertisers do not pay more for a white readership, despite the findings of a South African Human Rights Commission report seven years ago. A paper published on Tuesday finds that, allowing for socioeconomic differences, there is no discounted advertising rate for a black audience.
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/ 25 September 2007
The deregulation of South Africa’s liquid-fuels industry seemed no closer on Tuesday as the Department of Minerals and Energy kicked off the first Energy Summit in Sandton, Johannesburg, which is expected to set the tone for the review of the country’s energy policies.
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/ 25 September 2007
South African author Nadine Gordimer has written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to add her voice to protests against the military junta in Burma.
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/ 25 September 2007
The wife of former Australian cricket champion Shane Warne says their marriage reconciliation is over after he mistakenly sent her an incriminating SMS. Simone Callahan, who reunited last December with the spin bowler known also for his womanising, told a woman’s magazine she caught Warne cheating on her while he was in London.
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/ 25 September 2007
South Africa is placed fifth on the latest Mo Ibrahim Foundation Index of African Governance with a score of 71,2 while top-ranking Mauritius scored 86,2. The index rated the performance of 48 nations against a series of criteria including security, human rights, economic stability, just laws, free elections, corruption, infrastructure, poverty and health.
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/ 25 September 2007
Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Monday that the United States government must be more open to discussions with Iran if it wants peace between the nations. Tutu criticised the George Bush’s administration for refusing to engage in more negotiations with Iranian officials.
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/ 25 September 2007
Seventy-million rand has been set aside by the North West Province’s health department for the improvement of nursing colleges. Department spokesperson Lesiba Molala said the department planned to increase the intake of students at the two main nursing colleges in the province.
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/ 25 September 2007
Six civilians were killed when Ugandan soldiers opened fire on a Congolese passenger boat on Lake Albert on Monday, in the latest border flare up between the Great Lakes neighbours. In a conflicting version of the shooting incident, Uganda’s military reported two soldiers killed, one from each country.
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International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Malcolm Speed described the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship, which ended on Monday, as ”a great event”. He also praised tournament director Steve Elworthy of Cricket South Africa for the way in which the tournament had been run.
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/ 25 September 2007
Opposing groups from the Richtersveld community came face to face in the Land Claims Court in Cape Town on Tuesday as the court prepared to weigh up a settlement agreement. The agreement was reached in April this year between the state and the Richtersveld Sida !hub Communal Property Association.