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/ 26 February 2004
Authorities in Sierra Leone have started a campaign to rid the country of its so-called ”pepper doctors”: people who practise medicine under false pretences. The pharmacy board recently joined forces with police to raid the premises of suspected pepper doctors in the capital, Freetown, and elsewhere.
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/ 26 February 2004
Swaziland’s Red Cross society has issued an SOS to retired nurses to help revive public health services, crippled by a nurses’ strike that entered a third day on Thursday and has claimed at least six lives, according to media reports. Swaziland’s Red Cross officer said if no volunteers come forward, more people will die.
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/ 26 February 2004
The South African online recruitment website <i>CareerJunction.co.za</i> says the internet business model has finally come of age and now achieves the largest job advertising reach in South Africa.
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/ 26 February 2004
”Woof!” It might sound like a meaningless bark but, in fact, the dog is saying ”Ya ne! Soba ni konai de! [Hey! Don’t come near me!]”. And while a European might make the mistake of approaching the diffident hound, Japanese dog owners would know to steer clear. Why? Because their phones would translate for them.
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/ 26 February 2004
United States voters will go to the polls in November using electronic voting machines that cannot be verified, a computer scientist warned last week. David Dill of Stanford University said that 1 600 technologists and 53 elected officials had now joined his crusade for a ”paper trail”, so that electronic voting machines could be checked.
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/ 26 February 2004
Small online merchants have been finding loopholes in exchange control for years, but as the laws become clearer and international accountability frameworks are finally restricting their movements, the merchants are going to have to come clean. But how do they do it?
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/ 26 February 2004
Scientists have discovered a protein in monkeys that can block infection by the virus that causes Aids.
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/ 26 February 2004
Researchers in Washington on Wednesday said they had identified a protein able to block the replication of the HIV virus in monkeys, a key discovery that sheds light on halting the spread of Aids among humans. Humans have a similar protein, but it is not as effective at stopping HIV, according to the researchers, whose work is published in the journal Nature.
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/ 26 February 2004
Information technology group Mustek on Wednesday reported a sharp decline in net profits for the six months ended December, with profits dwindling from R50-million to R7,4-million. Headline earnings per share shrank from 75,43 cents to 8,34 cents for the half year.
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/ 26 February 2004
The PSG Group announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a partnership with a new black empowerment company, Arch Equity, which will acquire for cash 10-million shares in the PSG Group as its first transaction. Desmond Lockey is the controlling shareholder of Arch Equity and will serve as CEO of the new company.