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/ 10 October 2005
Schools are big business these days. And it’s not just proceeds from tuckshops and cake sales that make it into school accountants’ books.
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/ 10 October 2005
A controversial new partnership between the South African government and the world’s leading software company, Microsoft, is at the centre of a heated debate about the best way to roll out IT access to poor communities. The memorandum of understanding aims to roll out free Microsoft software and training to telecentres in all 284 municipalities over three years.
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/ 10 October 2005
Recent figures from the Life Offices Association show that the sale of retirement annuities as a percentage of the life industry business has fallen over the past six months. With the bad publicity and rulings against the life industry by the Pension Funds Adjudicator, it would appear that investors have real concerns about the appropriateness of RAs as a savings vehicle.
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/ 10 October 2005
Palestinian schoolboys in a Jerusalem suburb have lost their football pitch and volleyball court to a giant cement wall Israel has built through their playground, allegedly to stop militant attacks. Pupils returned to class last week after the weekend to find the latest stretch of Israel’s deeply controversial West Bank separation barrier had been built in 48 hours.
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/ 10 October 2005
Liberians go to the polls on Tuesday in the country’s first general elections since civil war was brought to a halt in 2003. About 1,3-million registered voters — out of a population of 3,5-million — will queue on October 11 to choose a president from 22 candidates.
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/ 10 October 2005
Wale Tinubu looms large on Nigeria’s economic landscape — a savvy and smooth operator deeply entrenched in the oil and energy sectors. At 38 years of age, Tinubu is the group CEO of oil company Oando, which he has grown from a tiny private family business, known as Ocean and Oil, into a big player in sub-Saharan Africa.
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/ 10 October 2005
Sir Ian Blair personally ordered that independent investigators be denied access to the scene where an innocent man had been shot dead by police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber, it emerged recently. The commissioner of London’s Metropolitan police wrote to the Home Office to block an independent investigation into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes
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/ 10 October 2005
Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba’s anti-corruption drive has reignited divisions within the ruling party and is driving a wedge between himself and his predecessor Sam Nujoma, according to Swapo insiders. When Pohamba forced Paulus Kapia to resign from his Cabinet in late August, it seemed a mere formality that he would also be expelled from the former liberation movement as well.
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/ 10 October 2005
The British government is attempting to overturn a court ruling that prevents foreign terrorist suspects from being deported from Britain to Algeria and other countries with poor human rights records. Lawyers acting for the government have found a way of mounting an early challenge to the 1996 ruling from the European court of human rights.
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/ 10 October 2005
Stephen Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time clung to the bestseller lists for 237 weeks. He has now published a new, more accessible version of the book. In a rare interview he talks to the Mail & Guardian about disability, why women can’t read maps and thinking in 11 dimensions.