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/ 25 October 2006
The top United States general in Iraq said on Tuesday he might send more troops into the battle for Baghdad, after an announcement that the Iraqi government had agreed to a timetable for political and military measures aimed at curbing the violence.
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/ 25 October 2006
It could take 18 hours to reach the place where five miners are trapped underground at AngloGold Ashanti’s Tautona mine, the company said on Wednesday morning. ”The longer it takes the more our hope of finding them alive fades,” said company spokesperson Steve Lenahan.
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/ 25 October 2006
South African taxpayers will be given some idea on Wednesday afternoon of the cost of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, Deputy Finance Minister Jabu Moleketi said on Tuesday. He was speaking ahead of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s unveiling in Parliament of the mini-budget, which revises the government’s three-year spending plan.
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/ 25 October 2006
President Thabo Mbeki warned earlier this month that strategic proposals conveyed by the South African Communist Party’s Blade Nzimande would result in the ”destruction of the African National Congress and the rest of the democratic movement”. But he decline of the ruling alliance was prophesied more than a decade ago, writes Ranjeni Munusamy.
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/ 25 October 2006
The Eastern Cape’s third-largest local municipality is bogged down by political paralysis and a financial crisis that has it on the verge of collapse, a local government report has revealed. Presented to the province’s Local Government and Traditional Affairs Minister Sam Kwelita in August, the report, titled Progress on the Implementation of the Municipal Recovery Plan, paints a grim picture of the King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality.
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/ 25 October 2006
Hospital costs are now almost 70% higher than they should be, because of the increased market dominance of a few private hospitals. This is the argument of the Council for Medical Schemes, which, along with Netcare, is opposing Medi-Clinic’s proposed takeover of four hospitals in the Vaal Triangle. Competition Tribunal hearings into the matter were held recently.
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/ 25 October 2006
With a whir and a flash of lights, a robot whizzes to the restaurant table and takes a customer’s order, while a second races to another table to deliver plates of steaming food. This isn’t a scene from a science-fiction novel. Rather, it’s the daily routine at a new diner in a suburban Hong Kong shopping centre.
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/ 25 October 2006
The crafts industry is one that hopes to score big outside the field of play, writes Themba ka Mathe.
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/ 25 October 2006
Freedom is to find the essence of economic empowerment without having to be a beggar at the door of the corporate universe, writes Zebulon Dread.
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/ 25 October 2006
Collaboration between South African public culture institutions and the Centre for the Study of Public Scholarship at Emory University brings together academics, practising scholars and professionals, writes Bruce Kadalie.