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/ 10 November 2006
If you mention HIV/Aids to teenagers, they say they’ve heard it all – they claim to ”know it all”. Consequently many of them still practise unsafe sex, which leads to pregnancy and the spread of the HI virus.
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/ 10 November 2006
The education community has been divided into two camps following Education Minister Naledi Pandor’s announcements on school-based violence.
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/ 10 November 2006
On the podium is a map of the world, a map of Venezuela and a desk piled with charts, reports, books and pens: essential navigational tools for a tour through the mind of Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan president is three weeks away from an election and has assembled Cabinet ministers, aides and journalists at the presidential palace, Miraflores, for a rhetorical journey.
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/ 9 November 2006
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has won a high court application for the go-ahead of a clinical trial that will give an anti-retroviral drug to breastfeeding babies, marking another appearance in court for the n-word — nevirapine. The researchers, headed by Professor Jerry Coovadia, plan to give nevirapine or a placebo randomly to about 1Â 100 breastfeeding newborns for a six-month period.
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/ 9 November 2006
The Public Protector has found that a failure by the Social Development Minister, Zola Skweyiya, to disclose an interest-free loan granted by Imvume chief executive officer Sandi Majali to his wife constituted a breach of the executive ethics code but his wife’s acceptance of the loan by itself did not.
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/ 9 November 2006
He was not so much the comrade, but the charou behind the comrade — so there was no Tony Yengeni-esque farewell for businessperson Schabir Shaik as he was driven from the Durban High Court to begin his 15-year jail sentence for corruption at Westville Correctional Facility.
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/ 9 November 2006
Tony Leon has threatened to launch a libel lawsuit against a British historian who raised questions about his proximity to the apartheid intelligence establishment during his time as a conscript in the defence force. James Sanders, a London-based researcher, has sent Leon draft pages of his forthcoming book, <i>Apartheid’s Friends: The Rise and Fall of South Africa’s Secret Service</i>.
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/ 9 November 2006
"I can’t believe it," Shabir Shaik reportedly exclaimed after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed his petition against conviction on two counts of corruption and one of fraud. "Boom, boom, boom; one, two, three: they didn’t uphold anything. All the lawyers were wrong about what was going to happen."
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/ 9 November 2006
A number of South African firms refuse to employ skilled foreigners because of nightmarish immigration bureaucracy, say recruiting agents and immigration experts. This despite an immigration law that the department of home affairs amended last week to help firms combat the domestic skills shortage by employing skilled foreigners.