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/ 28 November 2005
Gaby Neujahr, who has acted as head of the Kondrad Audenauer Stiftung sub-Saharan Media Programme since 2002, is to be replaced in December 2005 by Frank Windeck. Neujahr is returning to Germany to run a publishing operation outside Munich.
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/ 28 November 2005
Tohe "Kokstad Concerto" might not roll off the tongue quite like the Brandenburg Concerto, but one can’t help wondering what Johann Sebastian Bach, the 18th-century composer of the latter, would have come up with had he been commissioned to create the former.
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/ 28 November 2005
"The bruising political row over the rape charge being investigated by police against former deputy president Jacob Zuma has become a barometer of where South Africa stands on gender violence as the Sixteen Days of Activism campaign gets under way," writes Colleen Lowe Morna, executive director of Gender Links.
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/ 28 November 2005
About R37million has been transferred from underspending Western Cape government departments to relieve pressure on the beleaguered N2 Gateway Project. About R24million will be shifted from various departments to local government and housing "to mitigate the pressures of the N2 Gateway Project".
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/ 28 November 2005
Amnesia is a wonderful thing. How delicious to hear a spat reaching decibels of hysteria between former <i>Boetie Gaan Border Toe</i> Jannie Geldenhuys and the mild-mannered, high-foreheaded, comfortably chubby former president of Finland, Marti Ahtisaari, who was also the United Nations’s point man in the disputed territory of Namibia.
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/ 28 November 2005
Zimbabwe’s Senate poll is scheduled for this weekend, but there is little sign of the customary heated political activity. Incidents of violence hardly register on the radar screen. Ructions in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) over participation have dominated the run-up to the poll
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/ 28 November 2005
Following a period of sustained criticism for cutting back or cancelling the air-time of gay and Christian groups, SABC national station Radio 2000 has reacted strongly with the assertion that their new programme schedule – implemented this month – fulfils the public broadcasting mandate as dictated by regulator Icasa.
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/ 28 November 2005
This week, 10Â 000 people will start to gather in Montreal for what are expected to be the most important climate-change negotiations since the agreement of the Kyoto protocol in 1997. Put simply, the scientific consensus is that only a small window of opportunity remains to avoid dangerous climate change.
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/ 28 November 2005
If the international experts gathered at the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases Symposium on Tuberculosis in Tanzania last month thought they could smell a rat, they weren’t far off the mark. Perched at the back of the conference centre was a gargantuan beast munching contentedly on a bit of blackened banana.
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/ 28 November 2005
”I am tiring of technocratic talk. Joel Netshitenzhe’s most recent statement, that the government would not change its mind on the provinces it has assigned to cross-border municipalities because to give in to peoples’s demands would be a ‘perverse incentive’, is really so much hogwash,” writes Rapule Tabane.