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/ 4 September 2006
Choreographers seem determined to break out of the confines of their medium. With each pasing year the FNB Dance Umbrella advertises more and more of its programme away from sanctioned theatre spaces. They are bent on challenging our notions of what makes for urban comfort zones, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 4 September 2006
Khwezi Community Radio won two awards for best radio feature and best community media in the KwaZulu-Natal Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards on Friday evening.
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/ 4 September 2006
The Department of Minerals and Energy has undertaken to investigate industry complaints that the deluge of prospecting applications received since the promulgation of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (2004) had seriously hindered investment in the mining sector.
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/ 4 September 2006
The global debate between scientists and conservative Christians over evolution has hit Kenya, where an exhibit of one of the world’s finest collections of early hominid fossils is under threat. As the famed National Museum of Kenya prepares to reopen next year after massive, European Union-funded renovations, evangelicals are demanding the display be removed or at least shunted to a less prominent location.
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/ 4 September 2006
South Africa should look East for guidance on executive salary remuneration, says Congress of South African Trade Unions economist Neva Makgetla, responding to the continuing exodus of top business talent, some of whom are quitting to manage their personal fortunes on a full-time basis. Two high-profile resignations bring to more than 20 the number of top executives who have quit their high-powered positions.
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/ 4 September 2006
After dusk on Saturday February 21, the FNB Dance Umbrella opens with Screen Factor 8. Directed and choreographed by Sue Pam-Grant, produced by Blue Moon and featuring the Moving Into Dance Mophatong Performance Company, the piece is a large-scale, 20-minute-long multi-media production, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon.
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/ 4 September 2006
Classrooms with teachers, clinics with nurses, running taps and working toilets — these basic public services are key to ending global poverty, according to a report by Oxfam and WaterAid. And they say only governments are in a position to deliver on the scale needed to transform the lives of millions living in poverty.
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/ 4 September 2006
The banks are entering a new price war, one that is very good news for savers and people who rely on interest to meet their monthly bills. As banks come under pressure to find new sources of cash to fund their lending, so they are increasing their deposit interest rates to attract new clients and grow market share.
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/ 4 September 2006
Africa’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer has five times as many South African patients using its anti-retroviral (ARV) products as it had just more than a year ago. Sixteen months ago Aspen Pharmacare won a 58% stake of the government’s ARV tender, worth R1,2-billion in turnover to Aspen over three years.
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/ 4 September 2006
Philosophers, scientists and other intellectuals close to Pope Benedict will gather outside Rome this month for intensive discussions that could herald a fundamental shift in the Vatican’s view of evolution. There have been signs that the pope is considering aligning his church more closely with the theory of ”intelligent design”.