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/ 8 November 2006
China’s leader this week said his country’s relations with Zimbabwe are ”unshakeable”, but analysts see little benefits to the embattled Southern African nation, arguing that the Asian giant only seeks access to markets and raw materials for its booming economy.
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/ 8 November 2006
Asperger’s syndrome is on the increase in South Africa, adding another challenge to teachers’ daily tasks. This was highlighted at an international conference on autism, held in Cape Town in October, which also focused on Asperger’s syndrome as the more verbal and high-functioning form of autism.
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/ 8 November 2006
England coach Andy Robinson has insisted Argentina pose just as big a threat to the struggling world champions’ hopes of an elusive win as anyone else they will face at Twickenham this month. England have lost their last six matches, a run that continued last weekend with a 41-20 defeat by 2007 World Cup favourites New Zealand.
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/ 7 November 2006
”It happens when your ancestors tell you to be a fortune teller. They come to you in a dream; when they come to you, you have to do it,” says Mandlenkosi Mthiyane, a sangoma at at the Faraday muti and traditional healers’ market in the centre of Johannesburg. Read our in-depth report in two parts on traditional healers in South Africa.
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/ 7 November 2006
A pamphlet stuck on a wall in Fordsburg advertising the healer ”Dr Ismael … from the Spiritual Mountain Kumi” offers solutions to a range of problems, from removing bad luck and making one likeable at work to providing muti if one is ”weak in sex” and helping ”women who can’t produce”. Read part two of the Mail & Guardian Online‘s report on traditional healers.
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/ 7 November 2006
The Traditional Health Practitioners Act (THPA) promotes non-scientific religious practice in the form of public healthcare, says the NGO Doctors for Life International. Spokesperson Bola Omoniyi told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> this week that the NGO is vehemently opposed to the Act.
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/ 7 November 2006
Rwanda is seeking the extradition from Britain of four alleged masterminds of the 1994 genocide in which more than half a million people were killed, an official said on Tuesday. Tharcisse Karugarama, Rwanda’s Justice Minister, said his country has formally requested that the British government hand over the suspects.
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/ 7 November 2006
Egyptian police have arrested a blogger who posted comments critical of the country’s Islamic authorities, a security official said on Tuesday, a day after a leading media watchdog ranked Egypt as one of the world’s top ”enemies of the internet”. Abdel Karim Nabil Suleiman (22) was detained on Monday in Alexandria.
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/ 7 November 2006
New Zealand coach Graham Henry on Tuesday made 10 changes to the team that beat England when he named his side to take on France in the first of two Tests in Lyon on Saturday. His decision to ring the changes from the side who outplayed the reigning world champions 41-20 at Twickenham had been widely anticipated.