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/ 1 December 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s expected return to office after three weeks of illness has raised fears that the progress recently made by the government and civil society in the HIV/Aids arena could be jeopardised. The trepidation arose after Tshabalala-Msimang launched an attack on her deputy.
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/ 1 December 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Governments should recognise that behaviour is influenced by its social context. In a disordered society where anything goes, individuals are more likely to make reckless decisions. But where there is order, and respect for others, fateful choices such as whether to use a condom are liable to swing in favour of protecting one’s partner, and HIV transmission can be reduced.
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/ 1 December 2006
Shaggy demonstrated to all present at the MTN Sundome in Johannesburg that he is not just a singer, but a damned excellent performer too, writes Bongani Majola.
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/ 1 December 2006
‘So what are you cooking tonight?” Now that’s a question to whet your appetite, writes Lauren Shantall.
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/ 1 December 2006
An extraordinary chef has opened his own deli, named simply Delicatessen, and doesn’t have to tackle a myriad of logistical obstacles to produce his superior brand of food, writes David Shapshak.
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/ 1 December 2006
The Pretoria suburb of Hatfield is leading the pack in the race to bring affordable internet access to broadband-starved South Africa. Residents and business owners in Hatfield can sign up for 1GB of wireless broadband for a mere R180 a month, or a 3GB service for R350, thanks to a network set up by internet service provider (ISP) Neology as a proof of concept.
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/ 1 December 2006
In Moscow shortly after 9/11 a clever Russian academic told me: "Don’t believe all that stuff Putin is dishing out about how sorry we all are about what has happened. A lot of people here are thrilled to see the Americans get a kicking.” A few months ago I heard a cluster of diplomats lament the difficulties of doing business with the Russians, writes Max Hastings.
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/ 1 December 2006
Ms Baleka Mbete, Speaker of this august House, wishes it made clear that she will no longer tolerate puns, double entendres, or any facetious allusion whatsoever to the Gautrain and her alleged interests in it. She refers here specifically to a point of order raised by a certain short fat white counter-revolutionary in the House yesterday.
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/ 1 December 2006
Under the eyes of the world this time, Madagascar goes to the polls on Sunday in presidential elections that will test its democratic credibility. The last presidential contest, in 2001, from which then-president Didier Ratsiraka banned observers, split the country for six months and drove it to the point of civil war.