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/ 11 February 2008
Sarah Jessica Parker nailed the point with a stiletto: good shoes are better than a bad love affair and great shoes can outlast love itself. But while many women fantasise about owning a trophy set of sparkly Jimmy Choos, the reality for most South Africans, particularly children, is that a plain pair of shoes remains a luxury.
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/ 11 February 2008
From a distance Shadrack Monkhe bears an uncanny resemblance to the Collect-a-Can man seen in the recycling organisation’s advertisements. At the edge of a road in Vanderbijlpark, he pushes a wheelbarrow heaped to capacity with littered beverage containers. Even the setting is appropriate.
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/ 11 February 2008
Eskom’s countdown to catastrophe began in 2000 when it had enough coal stockpiled to last 61 days. Last month, when it shut down the country’s mines, the stockpiles were down to less than three days’ supply. A deliberate policy began in 2000 to reduce the coal stockpile to better manage operating costs.
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/ 11 February 2008
Holed up in a caravan on the campus of Stanford University in California, two graduate students were supposed to be finishing their doctoral studies. Instead, Jerry Yang and David Filo began messing around on something new called the world wide web. Yang and Filo started fiddling with quirky home pages. Yang put up his golf scores, his name in Chinese characters and a list of his favourite websites.
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/ 11 February 2008
You’re put in your place the moment you drive down the track that leads into Laverstoke Park, Jody Scheckter’s organic farm near Basingstoke. Every few metres there’s a small sign, each a little bit bossier than the last. "Do not use polyunsaturated oils for cooking, sautéing or baking." "Eat beef, lamb, game, poultry and offal from pasture-fed animals."
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/ 11 February 2008
As is customary on such nights, the main candidates vying for votes on Super Tuesday strode to their podiums in hotel ballrooms across the United States to interpret the night’s results for their adoring crowds. Such speeches are invariably billed as ”victory” speeches, despite the fact that only one candidate is truly entitled to the phrase.
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/ 11 February 2008
Absa, South Africa’s biggest retail bank, said on Monday it expects group headline earnings per share and EPS to be between 15% and 19% higher in 2007. Absa, which is majority-owned by Britain’s Barclays, said headline EPS and EPS for the bank unit would be between 25% and 28% higher than the previous year.
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/ 11 February 2008
Maskew Miller Longman South African School Dictionary (Maskew Miller Longman) R105, 95
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/ 11 February 2008
As if work isn’t difficult enough. It turns out that as well as being brilliant all day every day, lucky and well connected, there are several other factors for becoming successful that are beyond our control. For example, how tall you are, your name, what time you get up in the mornings and even the colour of your hair can have a bearing on how much you get paid and whether you’ll be promoted.
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/ 11 February 2008
Simba Makoni chose a five-star hotel to announce his candidacy for Zimbabwe’s presidency recently, but he will have to get down in the trenches if he is to pose a serious threat to President Robert Mugabe. His announcement whipped up a great deal of enthusiasm among a Zimbabwean electorate demoralised by the opposition’s failure at the weekend to agree on a united front against Mugabe.