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Spoornet CEO, Dolly Mokgatle’s resignation was the climax of a war with Maria Ramos over the rail giant’s management and strategic direction. Mokgatle was swept out of the second hardest executive job in the country this week, because she couldn’t hold her own against the woman who has the hardest — her boss, Maria Ramos.
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/ 14 January 2005
The insurance industry refers to ”acts of God”. Does last month’s tsunami qualify? How does the worst natural disaster for half a century square with the ideas of a divine plan and divine providence? How could a merciful and just God allow the tectonic plates under the Indian Ocean to shift so catastrophically? The Mail & Guardian asked local religious leaders for their views.
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/ 14 January 2005
The discovery of a genetic difference between rhesus monkeys and humans may help find a way to stop HIV infection developing into Aids, researchers said on Monday. British scientists funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) say they have identified a gene that prevents the rhesus monkey from getting infected by the HI virus
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/ 14 January 2005
The Zimbabwean government has once again taken its begging bowl to the donor community for financial assistance, despite claims that the country can go it alone. Highly placed sources at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said a number of government ministries have been engaged in talks with the UNDP over the past two months.
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/ 14 January 2005
The United States’s human rights abuses have provided a rallying cry for terrorists and set a bad example to regimes seeking to justify their own poor rights records, a leading independent watchdog said on Thursday. The torture of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay have undermined the credibility of the US as a defender of human rights and opponent of terrorism, the New York-based Human Rights Watch says in its annual report.
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/ 14 January 2005
Mahmoud Abbas, the newly elected Palestinian president, faced his first big test on Thursday night when Palestinian militants detonated a bomb on the edge of the Gaza Strip, killing at least five Israelis. The explosives were packed into a truck which the militants drove into the Karni crossing into Gaza at around 11pm.
Abbas ready to honour road map
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Tamil rebels have been recruiting children from tsunami relief camps, the head of Unicef in Sri Lanka said on Thursday. Although the government and the separatists have been working together in relative peace during the relief efforts, Ted Chaiban, of the United Nations children’s fund, said there were three "verified cases of child recruitment" involving the Tamil Tigers.
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/ 14 January 2005
The painstaking process of matching corpses to the names of more than 3Â 000 people still missing since the tsunami struck Thailand has been disrupted by a turf war between the police and the government’s forensic team.
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/ 14 January 2005
The more indisposed it becomes, the more obvious it is that political correctness is on its way out. A symptom of this wasting away presented itself in the latest edition of an otherwise earnest South African periodical, which I won’t name simply because I happen to admire its patron beyond limits and, anyway, it wasn’t of her hand.
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/ 14 January 2005
Tantalising indications of the extent of the intervention by Cabinet ministers in the drafting of the final report of the investigation into the arms deal have emerged. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has found handwritten notes regarding a meeting between the auditor general, President Thabo Mbeki and ministers Alec Erwin, Trevor Manuel and Mosiuoa Lekota