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"With a little bit of vision, a little bit of money, something new is beginning to emerge [in the inner city]," said Lael Bethlehem, the chief executive officer of the Johannesburg Development Agency, at Constitution Hill on Monday. Constitution Hill is located at the edge of Hillbrow, one of the most derelict areas in central Johannesburg.
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/ 15 November 2006
A visitor to Ibadan University in pre-independence Nigeria more than 50 years ago was impressed by its modern structure and 100 000-book library. Since then, Nigeria’s premier university, which started in 1948 as a University of London college, has come down in the world.
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/ 15 November 2006
Well-known broadcaster and former SAFM presenter Tony Lankester has teamed up with the Mail & Guardian Online to host a new weekly podcast show. The show looks at the major news stories in the M&G newspaper and the M&G Online, interviewing the editors and journalists behind the week’s stories.
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/ 15 November 2006
Global technology services group Dimension Data (Didata) said on Wednesday that it expected to continue with its double-digit revenue growth despite a "disappointing" performance in its European operations. "We expect to continue with our double-digit growth in the medium term," Didata CEO Brett Dawson said.
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/ 15 November 2006
Following the recent announcement by the Department of Health on the revised dispensing fee, South African retailer Pick ‘n Pay announced on Wednesday that all medicine prices in its pharmacies will remain at the current levels until the end of this year.
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/ 15 November 2006
France is prepared to help South Africa develop its transport infrastructure, visiting French Minister of Foreign Trade Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday. ”The Gautrain project clearly has one milestone in 2010 but that will be just one junction of the line,” she told reporters in Sandton.
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/ 15 November 2006
South Korean engraver Kim Young-sik looks in the mirror every morning and sees the reflection of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. As his bouffant-combed hairline recedes, the 56-year-old resident of Seoul is a dead ringer for the rarely seen North Korean of big hair, spectacles and platform shoes fame.
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/ 15 November 2006
Eighteen-year-old Alfred Kamara likes learning to be a carpenter, but he also liked the power his gun used to give him. A former child soldier in Liberia’s 14 years of on-off civil war, he is one of more than 100 000 ex-combatants disarmed and offered education or practical training.
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/ 15 November 2006
Under-pressure coach Andy Robinson called on England fans to get behind his struggling side and said the pain of their current losing streak was necessary if the world champions were to regain their place at the summit of world rugby union. England face South Africa at Twickenham on Saturday in the first of two back-to-back Tests after a record-equalling run of seven straight defeats.
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/ 15 November 2006
Five senior Iraqi police officers were arrested on Tuesdya night after gunmen in police uniforms seized scores of people at a prominent scientific research institute in Baghdad in an audacious operation that underlined the lawlessness gripping the Iraqi capital and the threat it poses to the country’s tottering education system.