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/ 5 December 2005
The Scorpions have stripped four prominent Johannesburg businessmen of their assets pending charges of theft and money laundering, reported The Star newspaper on Monday. The paper said the four had allegedly syphoned R15-million from Absa Bank in an internet scam.
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/ 5 December 2005
South Africa sounded an early warning to Australia after piling on the pressure in the first session of a three-day tour match against a Western Australian state team led by Test opener Justin Langer here on Monday. At lunch in the match at the Western Australian Cricket Association Ground, the home team were struggling at 73-3 after being sent into bat in overcast conditions.
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/ 5 December 2005
The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s meeting with Germany’s new Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday is likely to be a tricky affair. What should have been a chance to repair the damaging rift between the countries over Iraq is fast being eclipsed by something else — a new transatlantic row between the US and the European Union over the CIA.
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/ 5 December 2005
Eskom maintains that recent Cape power outages were "abnormal", but the signs are there that delays and about–turns in transforming the electricity sector are pushing supply capacity to the limit. Trevor Gaunt, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Cape Town, said procrastination over restructuring has meant years of inadequate planning and infrastructure investment.
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/ 5 December 2005
South Africa’s retail petrol price for all grades of petrol will decline by 30 cents a litre (c/l) from December 7, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel with 0,3% sulphur content will fall by 26c/l, while diesel with 0,05% sulphur content will cost 30c/l less on the same date.
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/ 5 December 2005
More and more of South Africa’s museums, galleries and even zoos have ditched their dusty personas and become vibrant, interactive institutions that are really worth a visit. The breath of fresh air blowing through these institutions is thanks largely to creative thinking in the world of curatorship.
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/ 5 December 2005
Mixed reports are coming in about school and teacher readiness to implement the New Curriculum Statement (NCS) for grades 10 to 12 next year. While most agree that the NCS is an improvement on the old curriculum, poor teacher training and delays in the distribution of new learning materials for these grades have been identified as problematic.
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/ 5 December 2005
Malaria parasites found in Africa are showing signs of resistance to the most powerful anti-malarial drug available, say researchers on the Science and Development Network website. Artemisinin was introduced in several African countries, including South Africa, after the parasite developed resistance to the commonly-used anti-malaria drug chloroquine.
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/ 5 December 2005
More than a year after launching the comprehensive plan on sustainable human settlements, aimed at eradicating slums, South Africa still has a backlog of 2,4-million houses. There are delays in the new housing plan, with most provinces yet to launch pilot projects. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> speaks to the Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu, about these and other issues.
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/ 5 December 2005
”Ivor Chipkin (‘Is SA burning in Paris?’) speaks the language of the ‘new patriotism’ in seeing ‘the South African revolution as a world-historical event’. While Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union were disintegrating, with Flanders and Québec attaining self-rule from, respectively, Belgium and Canada, South Africa went against the international trend,” writes South African author, Dan Roodt.