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/ 17 February 2004
The number of women dying from pregnancy complications has kept rising in Africa, from 870 per 100 000 expectant women in 1990 to 1 000 in 2001, international consultant on reproductive health Joseph Kasonde said on Monday.
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/ 17 February 2004
Mainstream newspapers don’t directly target the youth market, and it shows – most titles have less than a 20% penetration in the 16 to 24 age demographic. But there are still some products taking on youth boredom, argues Andy Davis.
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/ 17 February 2004
Yearly retrospectives, when placed on the news value ladder, generally fall somewhere below the “dog bites man” wrung – not even close to newsworthy. They can also be a bit dodgy on interest quotient – has anyone ever got past page 2 of <i>The Economist</i> “Year in Review” supplement? So one can guess that the form’s popularity is more a function of the year-end fatigue of editorial departments than a response to bags of beseeching readers’ letters.
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/ 17 February 2004
The 2004/5 Budget to be presented on February 18 will not be an "election" budget, in that it will provide goodies to voters, but it will nevertheless be expansionary, Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt told a media briefing late last week.
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/ 17 February 2004
Manuel was urged last week by a top economist to take "the big bang" with the relaxation of foreign exchange controls when he presents the country’s national Budget on Wednesday February 18.
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/ 17 February 2004
In the dying days of apartheid, FW de Klerk called his health minister, Rina Venter, and proposed the abolition of apartheid in state hospitals. During her subsequent investigations, Venter made a startling discovery: no laws specifically segregated hospitals. Doctors and hospital administrators had voluntarily enforced apartheid.
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/ 17 February 2004
"I am a businessman, I was raised as one and will die one. I have no political ambitions." Thebe Mabanga quizzes Bheki Sibiya, the boss of newly-formed Business Unity South Africa (Busa), on the role of big business and the potential threats to unity.
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/ 17 February 2004
Three years ago John Assimwe knew almost nothing about Africa’s insect life. Like most Ugandans, he was more preoccupied with the tall task of making a living despite the country’s crushing poverty and sparse employment opportunities.
After being unemployed for two years, he discovered that selling rare insects was a means of putting food on the table.
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/ 17 February 2004
Ernie Els admitted on Monday that he would love to support the Sunshine Tour and play a number of the local events again. Els is in South Africa for his first site inspection of the Gardener Ross Golf and Country Estate to be built in Centurion. He is contributing to the design of the golf course.
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/ 17 February 2004
The controversial ”reveal all” Kamp Staaldraad breakfast planned for a top Sandton hotel next week has been ”cancelled”, the event sponsors announced on Tuesday. This came amid uncertainty on whether proceeds from the function were to be donated to the Chris Burger/Petro Jackson fund for disabled rugby players.