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/ 12 October 2005
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the principal of Saxonsea Primary in Atlantis, Loran Klaasen, doesn’t think he’s a hero. "I am a catalyst. All I am doing is inspiring other people," he shrugs.
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/ 12 October 2005
In a little more than two months’ time, the future course of global trade and development will be shaped at a meeting of trade ministers in Hong Kong. This is when the final contours of the Doha Development Agenda, the current trade negotiations round, are likely to become clear.
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/ 12 October 2005
"Few people have the energy to plough through government department annual reports, whose cumbersome format, prescribed by regulation, is often less than informative. The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, had attempted to go beyond that format to highlight key outcomes" in short "state of the sector" summaries, writes Mike Muller.
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/ 12 October 2005
”The subsequent European Union (EU) summit was one of the most acrimonious on record, with additional rifts opening up over the budget and Britain’s rebate. And now, despite the recent last-gasp, patched-up offer to Ankara on its membership application, the wrangling that preceded it in Luxembourg has again left the EU uncertain of its path,” writes Simon Tisdall.
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/ 12 October 2005
In queues that spilled out of polling stations and wound through the streets, Liberians turned out to vote in their thousands on Tuesday in the first elections since the end of a 14-year civil war — elections that could see a former Chelsea and AC Milan footballer become president.
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/ 12 October 2005
A two-year pilot project was launched last month to tackle the high rate of HIV and Aids among South Africas teachers.
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/ 12 October 2005
”Have you cleaned behind your foreskin? Have you pulled it right back?” my mother bellowed up the stairs to my brother every evening of my childhood. I grew up aware that male genital hygiene was important — and, I’m sure, so did the neighbours, given that we lived in a terraced house with cardboard walls.
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/ 11 October 2005
Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot on Tuesday pledged €5-million to South Africa’s efforts to bring peace to the Democratic Republic of Congo and lauded Pretoria’s peacemaker role in Africa. ”If we can stay the course, our joint efforts can help create the conditions for free and fair elections in the DRC in the near future,” Bot told guests at his country’s new embassy building.
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/ 11 October 2005
Voters in Liberia began queuing from 2am in the country’s first presidential elections since the end of a devastating civil war two years ago. International observers have praised the smooth start to the day’s voting — which marks the culmination of a relatively peaceful two-month campaign.
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/ 11 October 2005
The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday pledged another -million in earthquake relief funds as anger grew over the pace of the response to the south Asia disaster. Singh, making his first visit to some of the devastated areas of Indian-controlled Kashmir, admitted that survivors of Saturday’s quake did not have enough tents or medicines.