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A ban on the import of live poultry and feathers from Turkey was imposed by the European Commission on Monday after 1 870 birds died of avian flu last week. Amid fears that migrating birds are carrying a deadly strain of the virus from east Asia, the restrictions were rushed into place on Monday night.
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/ 11 October 2005
The Parliamentary Press Gallery Association (PGA) has demanded the urgent reinstatement of its telephone services and a further meeting with Parliament’s institutional support divisional manager. On Monday, the PGA held a special meeting to discuss the proposed relocation of offices for parliamentary-based journalists.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning on two corruption charges. Security was stepped up on Monday evening when a large crowd of Zuma’s supporters held an all-night vigil in front of the court building. Police have warned that only those with accreditation will be able to enter the court for the proceedings.
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/ 11 October 2005
United States millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen and a two-man, Russian-American crew returned from the International Space Station to Earth early on Tuesday in a lightning-swift, bone-jarring descent. The Russian Soyuz space capsule touched down on the cold, wind-swept steppes of northern Kazakhstan.
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/ 11 October 2005
"It is a lie that the press operates freer here than in Zimbabwe," says Trevor Ncube, publisher of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>. Charlene Smith probes why he says that, assesses the <i>M&G</i> at 20 years, and reflects on press freedom at SA’s weekly newspapers.
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/ 11 October 2005
Out with the term "educator" and bring back "teacher". This is one of 40 recommendations contained in report entitled <i>A National Framework for Teacher Education in South Africa</i>. The report was produced by the ministerial committee on teacher education, initially set up in February 2003 to look at how current policies could be drawn into a unified system for teacher development.
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/ 11 October 2005
World Teachers’ Day is usually an opportunity for great cheers of admiration for the many thousands who strive to do right by the 12-million or so youngsters in our schooling system. To those of you who do honour your professional duties, I add my voice of appreciation.
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/ 11 October 2005
Teachers around the world share their experiences in celebration World Teacher’s Day on October 5.
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"I love teaching and I do not think I can swap it for any profession, however well it pays," says Mavis Shongwe. After a career in teaching spanning 30 years, she is currently deputy principal at Emmangweni Primary School in Tembisa in Gauteng, where she has been teaching since 1979.
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/ 11 October 2005
The tribute to Brett Kebble by Khanyo Gqulu last week ("Our north, our south, our east and west") would have been the most delicious piece of satire had it not been offered in such apparently deadly earnest. It — along with the rest of the sickly tributes to Kebble over the past 10 days — illustrates at least two things about the new South Africa.