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/ 22 September 2003
As The Netherlands announced â,¬2,5-billion over five years in education aid, South Africa said a global trade system that was "fairer" to poor countries would help even more. Ministers from the two countries sparred at a news conference regarding the United Nations goal of achieving universal primary education by 2015.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20848">World Bank looking to revive trade talks</a>
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/ 22 September 2003
About 3 000 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa members at the Port Elizabeth-based car manufacturer Delta will embark on a strike. The union has said the company has been undermining collective agreements and legislation by pushing for abnormal working conditions.
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/ 22 September 2003
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has expressed concern at newspaper reports that Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had announced that anti-retroviral drugs would not be distributed this year. ”I have no idea when the long-awaited roll-out will begin,” she reportedly said.
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/ 22 September 2003
Up to half of Malawi’s professional workforce could die of HIV/Aids by 2005, the World Bank has said in a report timed to coincide with the opening of a major conference in Kenya on the pandemic in Africa. An estimated one million Malawians are living with HIV, out of a total population of 11-million.
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/ 22 September 2003
Another South African journalist is in hot water over allegations of plagiarism, this time the editor of the South African edition of glamour magazine Elle, Cynthia Vongai. Sunday also saw the final appearance in print of Darrel Bristow-Bovey, who earlier this year faced accusations of plagiarism.
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/ 22 September 2003
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has named a new Cabinet two days after being re-elected, replacing several key members — including his ailing finance minister — in a bid to consolidate his power and breathe new life into his promises to turn around Japan’s sickly economy.
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/ 22 September 2003
Given the column inches and air time devoted to it in this country you could be forgiven for believing that the only matches that count at RWC 2003 are the inevitable pool encounter between South Africa and England and the (almost equally inevitable) quarterfinal between South Africa and New Zealand. But there are 17 other teams at the fifth edition of the World Cup…
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/ 22 September 2003
Wesley Moodie has become the new hero of South Africa’s Davis Cup team after beating Frederik Fetterlein in their Euro/Africa Group One promotion/relegation tie in Denmark. His victory moves South Africa back into Group One of the competition after two years of languishing in its lower echelons.
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/ 22 September 2003
What do you do with your money if you are the richest man in the world? Go to Africa and find a cure for a killer disease, Bill Gates decided on Sunday. The founder of Microsoft travelled to rural Mozambique to announce the donation of £100-million to fight malaria, ushering in what some call a new era of philanthropy.