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/ 14 September 2005
Is black economic empowerment (BEE) working? Most observers positively cite the data referring to the rising black middle class and the numerous media articles around the prospering retail sector. Others negatively refer to the BEE deal arena where concentration of wealth occurs and value added by the new owners is not often explicit.
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/ 14 September 2005
Many German car buyers shrug their shoulders at the mention of ”hybrid” vehicles. Cars with a petrol engine augmented by an electric motor are virtually unknown in Germany. In stark contrast to the United States, there are exactly 2 096 hybrid vehicles on German roads out of a total of 45,4-million cars, according to the Federal Office of Transport.
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/ 14 September 2005
In that pleasant land, the universal myths of Cinderella and Peter Pan — the woman who marries up and the boy who does not want to grow up — are re-enacted collectively every year in one of Africa’s most beautiful and heartfelt pageants: Umhlanga, the Reed Dance, in Swaziland.
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/ 13 September 2005
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has dodged giving a definitive answer on whether government will pay a market-related price for land it might appropriate under its land reform programme. Speaking in the National Council of Provinces on Tuesday, she said the answer to this question was ”a yes and a no”.
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/ 13 September 2005
Zambia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that former president Frederick Chiluba’s institute be sold to cover bills from constructors and other firms that supplied building materials. The former president began building the Frederick Chiluba Institute for Democracy and Industrial Relations when he was head of state but construction had yet to be completed when he left office in 2001.
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/ 13 September 2005
South Africa A cricket squad members escaped unscathed in a head-on collision on the road between Dambulla and Kandy in central Sri Lanka on Tuesday. The squad were travelling in a bus from practice when the accident occurred. According to coach Vincent Barnes a truck loaded with wood smashed into the bus they were travelling in.
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/ 13 September 2005
British Defence Secretary John Reid called on Tuesday for thousands of extra Nato troops to be sent to Afghanistan as the alliance expands into areas harbouring Taliban fighters and drug traffickers. Reid made the remarks before departing for an informal meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation defence ministers in Berlin, who are expected to discuss United States and Nato deployment plans for next year in Afghanistan.
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/ 13 September 2005
North Korea vowed on Tuesday to keep pushing for the right to peaceful atomic energy, putting it on a collision course with the United States as six-way talks on its nuclear weapons drive resumed. Repeating the demand that broke up the talks five weeks ago, the Stalinist state said it would not bow on the issue to Washington, which rejects nuclear reactors for Pyongyang.
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/ 13 September 2005
A survey has revealed that over 20% of KwaZulu-Natal youth have had suicidal thoughts, a suicide prevention congress heard in Durban on Tuesday. KwaZulu-Natal education MEC Ina Cronje said the results from the survey indicated that ”at a national level 24,6% of learners indicated that they felt so sad or had such hopeless feelings that they wanted to stop living”.