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/ 1 December 2006
”I pay R120 a month for my piece of shack floor in Phillipi. There are 15 of us, sleeping like animals on the ground. But I never complain; every night I lie down, I think of my five kids back in Harare.” Patience Moyo is one of hundreds of Zimbabweans flocking into the Cape Town townships. Most are women, Moyo says, and many are professionals or others who had well-paid jobs until their country’s economic meltdown.
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The current Aids death rate of adults means that in just one year there are about 200Â 000 children who are orphaned. December 1 marks World Aids Day and the spotlight shines on children who have lost parents to Aids. It is a social crisis and it is going to be an even bigger crisis in a few years’ time.
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/ 1 December 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Immigrant women are becoming some of the main victims of new HIV transmissions in several European countries, especially in France, according to official figures. A third of all new HIV infections detected in France in 2005 affect an immigrant from sub-Saharan Africa.
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/ 1 December 2006
Justice at last for policyholders! From Friday December 1 life companies will start adjusting the value of all retirement annuity funds and endowment policies where premiums are cancelled or reduced, to ensure that investors get a fair return on their money. In line with an agreement between the life industry and national treasury in December last year, the new order will cost life assurers about R3-billion.
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/ 1 December 2006
South Africa’s beautiful beaches are slowly being gobbled up by rising sea levels. And while you and your kids still enjoy this coastline, your grandchildren may never be privileged enough to see Durban’s Golden Mile. Fortunately, local authorities are increasingly aware that they will have to plan ahead if they want to mitigate the negative effects of climate change on South Africa’s environment.
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/ 1 December 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Awareness campaigns have succeeded in reducing Kenya’s HIV/Aids prevalence rate to 6% in 2006 from 10% in the late 1990s, according to a United Nations report. But HIV-positive Kenyans, like Akinyi, are often stigmatised by strangers and family alike who remain ignorant about the transmission and symptoms of the disease.
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/ 1 December 2006
The leadership contest in the Democratic Alliance (DA) is shaping up as a three-horse race between Cape Town mayor Helen Zille, party strategist Ryan Coetzee and Eastern Cape leader Athol Trollip. None has yet made a definitive announcement about running, but each has significant backing among party heavyweights.
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/ 1 December 2006
An eleventh-hour attempt by National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli to gag the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> was dismissed, with costs, on Thursday night. Pikoli sought an urgent interdict in the Johannesburg High Court to prevent publication of the articles "I told Selebi about Agliotti" and "Selebi’s Sandton shopping sprees".
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/ 1 December 2006
A statement made to the Scorpions has described Sandton shopping sprees in which murder accused Glenn Agliotti allegedly lavished gifts on police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Both men have previously denied that the commissioner received any gifts from his friend.
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/ 1 December 2006
When police seized a R105-million Mandrax consignment in 2002, police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi was "informed about Glenn Agliotti’s involvement", says a statement to the Scorpions. The subsequent investigation failed spectacularly. Read our report that the national director of public prosecutions tried unsuccessfully to block in court.