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/ 10 November 2005
The Old Mutual Foundation (OMF) has added an environmental component to its "out of the box" mathematics and science portfolio. The new offering seeks to help learners switch with ease to the revised curriculum that is due next year.
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/ 10 November 2005
The company that prints the <i>Saturday Star</i> is staying mum on why thousands of copies of the newspaper were not delivered to subscribers two weeks ago. A problem at the Newspaper Printing Company’s printing presses in Johannesburg prevented the distribution of the October 29 issue of the newspaper.
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/ 10 November 2005
Pregnant women with malaria produce increased quantities of a chemical called TNF-alpha in their placenta, which nourishes the foetus as it develops, say scientists in Cameroon. This chemical boosts HIV replication and might explain why more children are born with HIV after the rainy season there.
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/ 9 November 2005
There are competing claims to some of the land to which the Constitutional Court has already ruled that the Richtersveld community has a restoration right, it emerged on Wednesday. The announcement was made in the Land Claims Court in Cape Town by the state’s lead counsel in the Richtersveld land hearing.
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/ 9 November 2005
Zimbabwe police have charged more than 120 people arrested on Tuesday for staging protests to demand better living conditions, as the opposition warned the people’s patience is being stretched to the limit. Opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai angrily reacted to the arrests.
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/ 9 November 2005
A high-profile South African will be in Dublin next week to boost South Africa’s bid to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup, bid chief executive Francois Pienaar revealed on Wednesday — with eight days to go before the winner is announced. However, he refused to disclose the identity of the mystery South African lobbyist.
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/ 9 November 2005
Making a last-ditch bid to win a parliamentary vote on holding terror suspects for up to three months without charge, British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday said two terrorist plots had been foiled since July’s attacks in London. A rejection of the plan would be Blair’s first legislative defeat since he came to power in 1997.
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/ 9 November 2005
A Boeing 777 Worldliner took off from Hong Kong on Wednesday in a bid to set the record for the longest flight by a commercial jet, 23 hours to London flying east over North America, a company staffer said. The record bid comes with the company battling with European rival Airbus for control of the long-range aeroplane market.
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/ 9 November 2005
A crowd of at least 15Â 000 Azerbaijanis rallying on Baku’s Victory Square on Wednesday under a forest of orange flags called on the government to resign after reported vote fraud in weekend elections. Azadliq, the country’s largest opposition force, has demanded authorities order a re-vote or face regime change.