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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was firmer in noon trade on Wednesday, with a softer rand lifting heavyweight dual-listed stocks. Sentiment towards stocks with a local economy focus remained positive and many of these also put in strong performances.
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If Gautengers use water sparingly between now and May — when authorities will re-assess the drought situation — restrictions might not be necessary in 2006 and 2007, Rand Water said on Wednesday. This is in spite of the Vaal Dam being only 32% full and falling by a further one percent each day.
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Cuba’s most famous political prisoner, the dissident poet Raúl Rivero, was on Tuesday released by Fidel Castro’s regime after serving 18 months of a 20-year sentence. Rivero, whose family had complained that he was sick and was being mistreated in jail, arrived back at his Havana home on what his wife described as medical parole.
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Adults who encourage children to believe in Santa Claus are helping to foster their moral development, a British child psychiatrist said in a study published on Wednesday. In the December issue of the Psychiatric Bulletin, psychiatrist Lynda Breen wrote that the belief that Father Christmas ”knows if you’ve been bad or good” helps teach children the difference between right and wrong.
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The world’s top endoscope maker Olympus has joined the race to develop a capsule camera, a disposable device the size of a fingertip that can be easily swallowed to scan the body from the inside. The Olympus group’s medical products arm said it had developed key technologies for the capsule endoscope, which would navigate through the body without batteries to take images and directly administer drugs.
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Japan’s growing elderly population from Wednesday will be able to buy companionship in the form of a 45cm robot, programmed to provide just enough small talk to keep them from going senile. Snuggling Ifbot, who is dressed in an astronaut suit with a glowing face, has the conversation ability of a five-year-old, the language level needed to stimulate the brains of senior citizens.
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”Since the World Economic Forum in Seattle, a debate has erupted. It’s fine to attack corporations — but they’re all part of the state system. So we have to go back to the nature of the state. ”A novelist, historian, movie-maker, geopolitical analyst and activist, Pakistan-born Tariq Ali is visiting South Africa, and remains at 61 as outspoken as ever. He spoke this week to the Mail & Guardian.
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HIV/Aids in prisons can be better managed once its prevalence has been ascertained by a national survey, the Department of Correctional Services said on Wednesday. ”We have started and are in the preparation phases, with a task team and steering committee established,” said Gustav Wilson, director of HIV/Aids at Correctional Services.
Some fear HIV/Aids, others cancer
UN report on HIV/Aids
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<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/142915/aids_icon.gif" align=left> The HIV/Aids pandemic has placed a heavy burden on the elderly, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) said on Wednesday, World Aids Day.
"The elderly are the unsung heroes of the current pandemic", said Dr Monde Makiwane, a researcher at the HSRC, who conducted a study on the elderly in Mpumalanga.
<li><a target="_blank" class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=Regulars-HivAidsBarometer&ao=125723">Worldwide HIV infections: 60 094 374</a>
<li> <a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=126369">’Very late’ HIV survey in SA prisons</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=126363">Some fear HIV/Aids, others cancer</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=126377">UN report on HIV/Aids</a>
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The World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed on Tuesday that it plans to expand its support to 1,6-million Zimbabweans during December via its targeted feeding programme. WFP spokesperson in Zimbabwe, Makena Walker, said that about 25Â 000-million tonnes of food aid, left over from its assistance programme last year, would be distributed next month to vulnerable groups.
Zim security police budget to surge