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/ 12 September 2005
Publisher of the <i>Daily Sun</i> Deon du Plessis is to launch a new South African daily newspaper on Monday, September 19th. To be called <i>Nova</i>, the paper will appear in a “compact” shape — the first of its kind in the country — and target Gauteng’s “young and aspiring professionals” between the ages of 25 and 40.
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/ 12 September 2005
At the dusk of a century and the twilight of his life in 1998, Tanzania’s former leader Julius Nyerere met with top-level staff at the World Bank in Washington, DC. "Why have you failed?" the World Bank experts asked. Nyerere answered: "The British empire left us a country with 85% illiteracy, two engineers and 12 doctors."
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/ 12 September 2005
The JSE touched fresh highs this week amid a frenzy of activity in the futures market, an unexpected, slight dip in the oil price and good retail figures.These pushed the All Share Index to test, but not quite touch, the magical 16 000 points level. On Wednesday, the index reached a record 15 968 before closing at 15 939 points.
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/ 12 September 2005
One of the first sights you were introduced to as you entered the city of New Orleans from the airport was a quaint old graveyard, still in use, stretching back from the wide highway into clumps of trees and pleasant, slightly unkempt lawns.
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/ 12 September 2005
Ask most South Africans who our most successful internet entrepreneur and space adventurer is and they’ll tell you it’s Mark Shuttleworth. But Elon Musk might just go down in history for having a bigger impact than our first Afronaut. Musk is South Africa’s other Shuttleworth, and his success with internet start-ups has also propelled him into space.
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/ 12 September 2005
Prepaid cellphone users, who are generally lower income consumers, are paying up to twice as much as middle and high-income contract subscribers in South Africa. This is according to the communications regulator discussion document on mobile phone pricing.
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/ 12 September 2005
Everyone wants a piece of Kenya’s national parks: the Somali herdsman in search of pasture for his cattle; the villager hunting antelope; the Tanzanian entrepreneur seeking a rare plant. And, of course, ivory poachers. Park managers say they can’t deal effectively with these problems because of insufficient funding, staff and equipment.
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/ 12 September 2005
Hosni Mubarak’s party machine put on an overwhelming display of organisational strength recently as Egyptians voted in the country’s first contested presidential election. The 77-year-old president, who is seeking another six-year term, went into battle against nine opponents, whose party organisations were mainly invisible as voting took place.
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/ 12 September 2005
Fifteen years ago, Kenyan political scientist Ali Mazrui described the relationship between the United States and the Third World as a ”dialogue of the deaf”. Mazrui noted that Americans are brilliant communicators but bad listeners. This view aptly highlights the difficulties the US faced in seeking to win support at the United Nations for its controversial invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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/ 12 September 2005
Cape Town artist Tyrone Appollis was forced to stand by this week while council workers demolished his sculpture depicting the 1985 “Trojan Horse” shooting of coloured student protesters. The demolition of the offbeat sculpture reportedly followed a call from a Cape Town council official to Appollis asking him whether he had ”space in his yard” for the work.