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/ 13 December 2005
A low-cost housing project in the Western Cape is the only African project to receive funding from developed countries for its role in reducing greenhouse gases. The Kuyasa project, in Khayelitsha near Cape Town, attracted great interest at the Montreal climate change conference recently because it is the kind of project delegates hope will be replicated in other countries.
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/ 13 December 2005
World trade ministers on Tuesday began talks to salvage free-trade negotiations amid little hope for a major breakthrough, as thousands of protesters denounced the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as an enemy of the poor. Ministers will spend the next six days trying to salvage the Doha Round of trade negotiations.
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/ 13 December 2005
For those too young to have lived through them, it can feel like the Depression and World War II happened in black and white. So, the brilliance in a trove of rarely seen colour photographs of the era is startling: a female railroad worker sports a red kerchief and matching nail polish; factory rows of B-25 bombers sprout like yellow corn.
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/ 13 December 2005
Jacques Rudolph hit an unbeaten double century in a drawn match on Tuesday against Western Australia A in South Africa’s final warm-up match before Friday’s first of three cricket Tests against Australia. Jacques Kallis continues to struggle with an elbow injury, and is in doubt for the first Test.
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/ 13 December 2005
Quinton Fortune’s Manchester United future could be in doubt after the South Africa international was referred to a specialist in a bid to discover why a knee injury is not healing. Fortune (28) has not played since he came on as a substitute for John O’Shea in the FA Cup final defeat by Arsenal at the end of last season.
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/ 13 December 2005
The South African government says an investment climate survey — a joint Department of Trade and Industry and World Bank initiative — has provided encouraging information as well as challenges as the country prepares to embark on accelerated growth.
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/ 13 December 2005
A call for members of the public not to panic over fuel shortages was made by Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks in the National Assembly on Tuesday morning. In Gauteng, the problem has been exacerbated by panic buying among motorists who do not even need to fill up with fuel, she said.
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/ 13 December 2005
South Africa is set to ban the age-old Zulu custom of virginity testing on young girls, even though traditionalists have vowed to disregard the new measure. The tradition, which involves the inspection of girls’ genitalia, has drawn an outcry from human rights advocates who say it is an invasion of privacy and degrading towards women.
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/ 13 December 2005
Indian filmmaker and writer Ramanand Sagar, whose television series portraying Hindu gods battling demons captivated tens of millions and drew crowds of people who couldn’t afford TVs around shop windows on Sunday nights, has died, his family said. He was 87.
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/ 13 December 2005
Ethiopia on Tuesday accused arch-rival Eritrea of deliberately ratcheting up tension along their border and said it will take deterrent measures to dissuade Asmara from starting a new conflict. ”The Eritrean government is making efforts to worsen the situation around the border,” Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told lawmakers.