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An emergency-management centre in Cape Town will soon be using open-source voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) telephony to deal with and respond to disasters in the region. The implementation of the call-handling system points towards growing open-source use in critical applications.
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/ 7 February 2006
South Africa will from next month start large-scale expropriations of land from white farmers after years of compensation negotiations proved unsuccessful, a top official said on Monday. South Africa’s chief land-claims commissioner said the willing-buyer, willing-seller model will no longer apply to land-restitution claims.
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/ 7 February 2006
Every South African has the right to be different, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke told a South African Council of Churches seminar on same-sex marriages in Kempton Park on Monday. ”Everyone has the right to have a flat nose, to have curly hair, or to have straight hair. That’s beyond debate,” Moseneke said.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Communist Party in KwaZulu-Natal have warned of mass action against the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in the next two weeks over its coverage of axed former deputy president Jacob Zuma, who goes on trial for rape on February 13.
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/ 7 February 2006
Once upon a time, there was a judge, a bank robber serving time and the head of a prison. Then there was a famous video showing prison warders selling juvenile prisoners to older inmates for sex; drinking with prisoners; dealing in drugs; and selling firearms to prisoners. Since that watershed event, the three men have gone dramatically different ways.
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/ 7 February 2006
At Christmas, it was handy to give best-of CDs to friends as gifts: easy to find, easy to please. Now, after the long month of January, payday has come again, so why not spoil yourself in the same way? Riaan Wolmarans has more.
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/ 7 February 2006
Recently, one of empowerment’s youngest veterans, if one may call him that, put together a relatively small and simple deal, but one that launches his company to an important platform: the JSE. Sandile Zungu, the executive chairperson of Zungu Investment Company, announced the formation of listed entity Makadebona, a diversified industrial holdings company.
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/ 7 February 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he will depart from 10 Downing Street before the next election, which must be no later than 2010. He has an ambitious, well-qualified and long-serving minister of finance waiting impatiently for him to go. Sound familiar?
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/ 7 February 2006
The number of insurance policies held by South Africans with a monthly household income of less than R3Â 000 should more than double over the next eight years, according to Metropolitan Life. Life insurers have been charged with the responsibility of bringing new products to the market that are more affordable, easier to access and understand.
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/ 7 February 2006
”Why didn’t you prevent this?” is a question Kenyans may start asking legislators soon, concerning a report about the government’s purchase of luxury vehicles in 2003 and 2004. Entitled Living Large: Counting the Cost of Official Extravagance in Kenya, the 23-page document was issued last week by the local chapter of Transparency International.