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/ 8 December 2006
Mobile Number Portability is a non-event, with operators experiencing a number of system problems and consumers reluctant to make the switch. MNP, which was introduced on November 10 after numerous delays, allows consumers to switch operators while keeping their number.
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/ 8 December 2006
Spare a thought for Russell Loubser this Christmas. If the buyouts of listed companies continue, the JSE’s CE may find himself presiding over a stock market that’s merely a shadow of its former self. Already, the private equity sharks are circling and have a number of kills under their belts. More are expected in the new year.
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/ 8 December 2006
<b>Review:</b> <i>This matter of women is getting very bad: Gender, Development and Politics in Colonial Lesotho</i> by Marc Epprecht (University of Natal Press).
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/ 8 December 2006
If Afghanistan had a tourist industry, the postcard-pretty Korengal Valley would be a star attraction. Majestic mountains soar to the heavens. Sunlight spills over terraced fields. Gleaming snow dusts the jagged peaks. But for the American soldiers stationed there, Korengal is IED Valley, a perilous, exhausting battlefield and the heart of the United States war against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
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/ 8 December 2006
There are growing signs that factions within Zanu-PF will push for an extension of President Robert Mugabe’s mandate by pushing through contentious constitutional amendments which would allow him to stay on until 2010. This means presidential elections in 2008 will be deferred as Zanu-PF seeks to take advantage of its majority in Parliament and the Senate to push through the constitutional amendments.
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/ 8 December 2006
While world attention has focused on the HIV/Aids pandemic, public health experts say that United States political interference and declining financial support for family planning, abortion and prevention of other sexually transmitted infections has contributed to shockingly high death and disability rates in developing countries.
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/ 8 December 2006
Afro-pessimists must reflect gleefully on the steady stream of corruption scandals fixating the post-apartheid South African media. After all, this is Africa, they say knowingly, and we are merely a postcolonial Johnny-come-lately to the continental way of doing things.
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/ 7 December 2006
Seven staff at a London hotel visited by Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko shortly before he fell ill have been found to have been exposed to low levels of radiation, public health officials said on Thursday. But the Health Protection Agency underlined that the health risks were low.
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/ 7 December 2006
The South African government has promised to intensity the fight against diabetes, one of the world’s foremost experts on the disease, Professor George Alberti, said on Thursday. Alberti, a past president of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), is also chairperson of the organising committee of the IDF’s World Diabetes Congress, being held in Cape Town.