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/ 20 November 2006
Andrew Lamprecht visits Willem Boshoff’s outdoor exhibition comprising 15 000 artificial flowers.
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/ 20 November 2006
Confirmed carnivore Michael Hann eats meat every day — so how did he fair in his bid to go green?
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/ 20 November 2006
Nearly two million children a year die for want of clean water and proper sanitation while the world’s poor often pay more for their water than people in Britain or the United States, according to a major new report. The United Nations Development Programme, in its annual Human Development Report, argues that 1,1-billion people do not have safe water and 2,6-billion suffer from inadequate sewerage.
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/ 20 November 2006
Not many people can afford to slap down nearly R6-billion, even if it’s for a stake in South Africa’s biggest company. Larry Yung Chi Kun can. But then, he is China’s third-richest individual, and presumably had some cash to spare. China Vision Resources, Yung’s investment company, bought 1,13% of Anglo American from E Oppenheimer & Sons, the Oppenheimers’ family company.
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/ 20 November 2006
Many Algerian employers are lobbying for a return of their country’s weekends over Saturdays and Sundays, rather than Thursdays and Fridays, saying the current policy is cutting into foreign trade revenues. Algeria began observing its weekend from Thursday to Friday in 1976, in recognition of the fact that Friday is a holy day under Islam, the state religion of Algeria.
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/ 20 November 2006
Put yourself in the shoes of Imelda Marcos. At the height of your power you are the wife of a president, one of the 10 richest women in the world, intimate with the world’s dictators and the owner of arguably the biggest private collection of art — and footwear — on the planet. Then try to squeeze into those sling-backs again today.
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/ 20 November 2006
Out of the vast stretch of Karoo farmlands, surrounded by hills, emerges a cluster of simply elegant cream coloured buildings with grey corrugated iron roofs. They house, among other institutions, the Hantam Community Education Trust’s school, Umthombo Wolwazi (Fountain of Knowledge), built on 11ha of donated land on the farm Grootfontein between Colesberg and Steynsburg in the Northern Cape.
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/ 20 November 2006
Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, according to an Oxfam report released recently. Five years to the day after the Doha declaration — a groundÂÂbreaking deal to give poor countries access to cheap drugs — was signed at the World Trade Organisation, Oxfam says things are worse.
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/ 20 November 2006
No matter what excuses are made about player availability, poor preparation times and shambolic administration, 2006 will go down as a true annus horribilis for South Africa on the international soccer front. With the domestic game producing little in the way of international standard footballers, has the time arrived to look outside our borders for players?
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/ 20 November 2006
Alex Sudheim finds out why Greig Coetzee’s <i>Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny</i> shares parallels with Martin Scorsese’s <i>Taxi Driver</i>.