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/ 20 September 2005
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has called in a crack team from the International Labour Organisation to investigate why the National Economic Labour and Development Council (Nedlac) is not working properly. There is increasing concern that Nedlac is not living up to expectations, which were that it would be an essential forum for policymaking.
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/ 20 September 2005
South-East Asian capitals are enjoying an influx of big-spending tourists from Arab states, who say they feel unwelcome in Europe and the United States as the world turns jittery after the London bombings. Weary of being treated with suspicion in the West, they say they prefer the region’s bustling cities and sun-kissed beaches.
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/ 20 September 2005
The search for the Durban yacht, Moquini, which went missing during a race last week will end on Tuesday night, the Maritime rescue co-ordination centre said. ”Depending on what the outcome of the search is tonight [Tuesday], we have reached the end of what we want to do,” said Jacques Smit, the Cape Town-based centre’s search mission co-ordinator.
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/ 20 September 2005
Nigeria’s Anglican church has deleted all references to its mother church from its constitution, deepening a rift over homosexuality but stopping short of a feared schism. A statement on the church’s website on Tuesday said ”all former references to ‘communion with the see of Canterbury’ were deleted” at a meeting last week.
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/ 20 September 2005
It is time to bundle out capitalists seeking to steal the African National Congress away from the working class, Congress of South African Trade Unions General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Tuesday. ”Now is the time for workers to forcefully claim the ANC as their own,” he told the eighth National Congress of the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union.
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/ 20 September 2005
About 350 members of Ethiopia’s Bete Israel community went on hunger strike in Addis Ababa on Tuesday in protest over what they described as Israel’s ”unfulfilled promise” to take them to the Holy Land. The three-day hunger strike was intended to publicise Israel’s failure to keep the ”promise” which the community says it made eight years ago.
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/ 20 September 2005
Fans of a certain diminutive Gallic warrior and his corpulent sidekick are counting down to Thursday morning, when a glimpse of the latest Asterix and Obelix album will be permitted amid a public relations blitz in the Belgian capital Brussels. Albert Uderzo, the 78 year-old illustrator who launched the comic-strip character in 1959 with author Rene Goscinny, is scheduled to appear at a press conference to reveal the title of the new book.
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/ 20 September 2005
With eyes fixed to the clouds outside his window, Manoj Kumar is trying to fasten his seat belt. After a struggle, the shopkeeper from Delhi explains that flight DN661 to Bangalore is his first. ”I have never flown before,” he says. ”It is like being on a fairground ride.”
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/ 20 September 2005
Falling oil prices and interest rates, an investment boom and a growing property market were predicted for South Africa by Absa senior economist Chris Hart on Tuesday. He expected the dollar to weaken as United States economic growth slowed, causing oil prices to fall and yielding a lower local inflation rate.
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/ 20 September 2005
Scientists have used injections of human stem cells to heal spinal injuries in paralysed mice, allowing them to walk normally again. The research, which was funded by the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, suggests that stem cells could be used to repair spinal damage in people who have suffered damaging accidents or disease.