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/ 25 September 2007
International health agencies began on Monday to install two laboratories to test cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, amid fears of an epidemic of the disease, World Health Organisation (WHO) officials said. The two laboratories will allow a precise diagnosis within two to six hours.
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/ 25 September 2007
The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions is expected to release more details on Tuesday on the decision by President Thabo Mbeki to suspend National Prosecuting Authority boss Vusi Pikoli, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
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/ 25 September 2007
A British citizen was personally involved in organising the deaths of thousands of people during the Rwandan genocide, a London court heard on Monday. Vincent Bajinya (46) came to Britain after the 1994 genocide which claimed more than a million lives as inter-ethnic strife ripped through the Central African nation.
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/ 25 September 2007
”In the light of the brouhaha about the nominations to the South African Broadcasting Corporation board, I’d like to ask a question: Are some South Africans eligible to nominate and be nominated to lead public institutions while others should rather be ignored?” writes Prince Mashele.
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/ 25 September 2007
A small inedible seed from a Mexican tree is seen by some as the answer to the world’s fuel crisis. But the seed from the jatropha tree, used to make biofuels, is still hugely controversial in South Africa and the government is not at all sure that the plant will solve the country’s biofuel woes.
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/ 25 September 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suffered an embarrassing blow to his prestige after his own party attacked him for adopting a jocular tone towards inflation at a time of rampant price rises. The Islamic Revolution Devotees Society has added its voice to a rising chorus of economic discontent by warning the president that spiralling living costs are hurting the poor and undermining his stated goal of social justice.
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/ 25 September 2007
Sithabile Khuzwayo is one of many women who bring groceries and clothing from across the borders of neighbouring Botswana and South Africa to sell at the flourishing flea markets of Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, Bulawayo. She said the hostility of Botswana’s locals to Zimbabwean traders has made buying wares in Botswana risky.
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/ 25 September 2007
Terry Crawford-Browne has done something incredible. He has spent R5-million on a battle from which he stands to make nothing: his campaign to expose corruption in South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms deal. Not many people can understand this in an era of greed and opportunism.
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/ 25 September 2007
In the first seven months of this year Africa saw $8,2-billion of new listings, already 13% higher than last year. Moreover, Nigeria, not South Africa, was the largest recipient of inflows for new listings. Africa has seen foreign investment inflows triple in the past decade from $10-billion to $30-billion a year.
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/ 25 September 2007
You might have expected Northern Rock to sound apologetic as queues formed outside its branches and its website was overwhelmed. Here is a bank that lent aggressively and tried to grab a big share of the mortgage market. Now its business model has been exposed as fragile and its brand damaged, perhaps beyond repair.