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/ 27 January 2006
Small business owners can stop fretting over the costs of compliance with complex codes of black economic empowerment thanks to an innovative Web-based scorecard solution. Dijon de Jager, a qualified chartered accountant, launched Mpower Ratings in 2004 in an attempt to cater for small, medium and micro-enterprises.
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/ 27 January 2006
The residents of Matjhabeng in the middle of the Free State goldfields reflect the dilemmas facing many African National Congress voters.
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/ 27 January 2006
Citizens have a right to communicate with their representatives, but also need to engage in democracy, argues <b>Siyabonga Memela</b>.
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/ 27 January 2006
Dysfunctional ward committees are being blamed for the apparent breakdown in communication between local government and communities.
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/ 27 January 2006
Before the teargas canisters and burnt tires had all been cleared away, government supporters were embracing their opponents on the streets of Abidjan. For one afternoon at least, a passion even stronger than politics had taken over: football.
On Tuesday, fans of the Elephants filled street bars, to cheer the national team to victory in the African Nations Cup.
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/ 27 January 2006
Singletons in the United Kingdom complain of bias in the workplace with pressure to attend after-hours dos and work weekends, a survey revealed this week. Most single people are happy being single but many feel picked on at work, left out of couple-dominated social occasions and penalised financially.
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/ 27 January 2006
It is a mouth-watering prospect, undoubtedly the news story of this fledgling year: God, in a human court of law, almost in the shadow of the Vatican, under obligation to prove that he exists. And if he can’t, then no one in Italy will any longer be able to claim to be God’s agent or intermediary, to collect money for his greater glory.
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/ 27 January 2006
At Berlin’s Herbert Hoover High School, roughly 90% of the pupils come from immigrant families, but in a step that has caused political ripples they have been told to speak German and nothing else. ”German is the language spoken in our school. Every pupil is therefore obliged to communicate only in German,” reads the rule that was adopted at the school.
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/ 27 January 2006
Europe’s human-rights watchdog recently accused Washington of ”gangster tactics” by flying terrorist suspects to countries where they would face torture, and criticised European countries who appear to have done nothing to intervene. ”If a country resorts to the tactics of gangsters, I say no,” Dick Marty, a Swiss senator, said.
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/ 27 January 2006
Brazilians are choosing to pump ethanol into their cars, reducing the country’s dependency on petrol and setting a worldwide example on how to reduce greenhouse emissions from transport. More than 183 600 ””lexi-fuel” cars, which run on petrol or ethanol made from sugar cane, were sold in December in Brazil.