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/ 14 September 2005
The roads are dirt tracks, the children are barefoot, and there are no street lights in Funyula village, western Kenya. But as darkness falls, and villagers huddle around paraffin lamps, three red neon lights come to life on a hillside overlooking their huts. They illuminate a cellphone mast, the latest addition to the landscape.
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/ 14 September 2005
A car bomb went off Wednesday in a Shi’ite district of Baghdad killing at least 75 people and wounding 162 in one of the most deadly single attacks to date in Iraq, a security official said giving figures obtained from five hospitals. The car was driven by a suicide bomber who drove at speed into a group of construction workers waiting on Uruba square, in the Kazimiyah district, to be hired for daily work.
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/ 14 September 2005
Any thorough examination of the United Nations High-Level Panel report should take into account that reform of the UN system is a continuing process. The Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has himself reminded us that reform is a process and not an event.
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/ 14 September 2005
Some significant legal and political victories for mother-tongue education were gained in the recent past. In relation to Afrikaans in particular, there was Mikro Primary Schools successful defence against court action by the Western Cape department of education to enforce its language policy on the school governing body (SGB).
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/ 14 September 2005
International terrorism carried out in cities around the world in the name of Allah is creating a dangerous perception of Muslims as bloodthirsty criminals.
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/ 14 September 2005
The rituals and religious traditions of weddings may differ from culture to culture, but the world over they’re essentially about the same thing: uniting not only a man and a woman, but their families as well.
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/ 14 September 2005
Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General, recently described the findings of the investigation into the Iraq oil-for-food scandal as "painful" and "embarrassing" and underlined an urgent need for reform of the world organisation. Annan accepted personal responsibility, but made it clear he was not going to resign.
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/ 14 September 2005
Truth is stranger than fiction. Yes, that’s the clunky theme this week, which hopefully will hold this column together to give it the appearance of being a well thought-out exploration into the nature of life, reality and our place in the universe, using the metaphor of strange news and new discoveries as a vehicle for conveying this.
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/ 14 September 2005
Three senior officials of the collapsed Saambou Bank appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday on 13 financial charges involving about R640-million. Gerhardus De Clerck, Johan Myburgh and Charles Edwards face 10 charges of fraud, one of theft and two of contravening the Companies Act.
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/ 14 September 2005
Until recently, only the privileged few who earned enough to belong to the private bank club received the benefits of debt consolidation. Debt consolidation is basically the consolidation of one’s debt into a single account, which usually forms part of your home loan and therefore attracts lower interest rates. Several banks have launched debt consolidation products for retail clients.