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/ 11 September 2007
Countries around the world face huge educational challenges, ranging from disputes over teachers’ salaries to curricula reform, the need for various resources and demands to adapt to an ever-changing world.
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/ 11 September 2007
I wouldn’t blame anyone who accused me of sour grapes if they heard that I am happy I couldn’t go on the Axe jet, despite accepting the invitation. But, think what you will, the Axe jet’s so-called fantasy is an affront to reasonable men. In its unapologetic objectification of women’s bodies, the maker of Axe says men are so easy to please, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 11 September 2007
Among the many charges that will forever stick to the apartheid government is that its repression of oppositional voices robbed the country of some of its richest intellectual and political resources. The British government has been one of the fortunate beneficiaries of South African-born talent: one of those forced to leave the country in the 1960s was Peter Hain.
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/ 11 September 2007
When the haggard and broken figure was laid out on the slab and displayed to the world it was not just Che Guevara who had died. The dream of socialist revolution in South America was over. His image and name would continue to inspire millions but on the continent he wanted to transform he was a political failure, a defeated guerrilla on the wrong side of history.
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/ 11 September 2007
Jeroen van der Veer (60), the head of Shell, earned £2,9million last year, the average for FTSE-100 firms and almost a quarter of what was paid to his former business rival, Lord Browne at BP. The relatively modest salary suits the slightly downbeat Dutchman, who is a mile away in style from the garrulous and glitzy Browne.
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/ 11 September 2007
A new report on South Africa’s energy future warns that if the nation does not rethink its development strategy it could herald ruin for local farmers and the poor. It calls for a long, hard look at the accelerated and shared growth initiative for South Africa. The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas’s South African chapter released its report on the country’s energy future last month.
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/ 11 September 2007
Climate change and an increasing population could trigger a global food crisis in the next half century as countries struggle for fertile land to grow crops and rear animals, scientists warned recently. To keep up with the growth in human population, more food will have to be produced worldwide over the next 50 years than has been during the past 10 000 years combined, the experts said.
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/ 11 September 2007
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille appeared briefly in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate’s court on Tuesday on a charge under the Regulation of Gatherings Act. Zille, who is also mayor of Cape Town, was arrested on Sunday following an anti-drug march with members of the Mitchell’s Plain community.
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/ 11 September 2007
There has been much speculation that South Africa’s nine provinces could be downscaled to administrative hubs because of their apparent inefficiency and ineffectiveness. I believe this is a knee-jerk reaction, not a solution, to the present malaise. My party and I have always believed that South Africa is simply too large and diverse to be administered as a unitary state, writes president of the Inkatha Freedom Party Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
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/ 11 September 2007
One young Russian woman sends an SMS to another’s cellphone in central Moscow: ”Hi, Katya. Ne poiti li nam drink coffee? Call asap! Cheers, Masha.” The uninitiated might take this for some technical garble, but when 24-year-old student Masha Kuznetsova recently invited her journalist friend Katya out for a coffee, she was using the latest argot of the new Russia.