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/ 27 January 2006
Local government should be able to deliver services to it constituents in a sustainable manner, argues <b>Louis Scheepers</b>.
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/ 27 January 2006
The trouble with writing anything about Cape Town is that a lengthy qualifying preamble is usually required, for the place is a vast cobweb of purple fiction and banal squalor that too easily seduces those who arrive there looking for meaning, or a samoosa, or meaning in a samoosa.
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/ 27 January 2006
Of all the African leaders celebrating the successful negotiation of their new-look union’s toughest diplomatic hurdle, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe was the most joyful.This is hardly surprising, since his peers in the 53-nation African Union have once again let him off the hook.
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/ 27 January 2006
The story of the British diplomats caught using a transceiver hidden inside a rock in Moscow as their dead-letter drop would not, in itself, make a novel. What we know is only the tip of the iceberg; the novel is the rest of the iceberg. Who were the diplomats collecting information from?
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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.