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/ 23 October 2006
The International Monetary Fund has estimated that Africa needs to accelerate annual GDP growth to 7% to attain the goal of reducing by half the proportion of people living on less than one dollar a day by 2015. Africa’s economy as a whole is growing at about 5,5% in 2006.
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/ 23 October 2006
Pasilius Haingura, of the National Association of Namibian Teachers’ Unions, says that many of the country’s 20 000 teachers want to leave the profession. While noting that Namibian teachers are better off in terms of salaries than other public servants, he says the conditions under which teachers operate leave them with no other option but to seek other jobs.
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/ 23 October 2006
Purists may frown, but chocolate foie gras and kiwi liquor are just two examples of how French farmers are evolving their offerings in order to lure new customers in a competitive food market. Six times a year, small farmers from across France meet in the Paris region to sell their wares directly to city customers.
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/ 23 October 2006
Since Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced a land revolution, headlines have focused on expropriations and sporadic violence that reportedly has claimed dozens of lives. A question seldom asked is whether the reforms are widespread and working.
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/ 22 October 2006
”On a visit home I collapsed on the night of June 7 and was admitted as an emergency case to the intensive care unit at the Nelson Mandela Hospital. There I was stripped and lay naked in bed under an obviously used sheet for two days until a member of my family managed to bring me some night clothes.”
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/ 22 October 2006
Fernando Alonso celebrated clinching his second drivers’ world title in his final race for Renault on Sunday with a rich tribute to his team and retiring seven-times champion Michael Schumacher. The 25-year-old Spaniard finished second behind victorious home-city hero Felipe Massa in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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/ 22 October 2006
Some years ago — 1969 I think — in a revue called <i>Finger Trouble</i>, I had a sketch entitled <i>The Ten Commandments of the SABC</i>. I introduced the sketch by explaining how Dr Piet Meyer, then chairman of the SABC board, would go into the wilderness once a year. What amused me was that, in updating the sketch, how little I had to change its 1969 version.
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/ 22 October 2006
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chief executive Dali Mpofu’s inquiry into two of his top staff has no basis in the ”blacklisting” report, said the Democratic Alliance on Sunday in reaction to Mpofu’s media announcement of disciplinary proceedings against news chief Snuki Zikalala and SAfm presenter John Perlman.
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/ 22 October 2006
The South African government has set aside R3,8-billion for public transport for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Sunday. Radebe also warned taxi operators who plan to go on strike against the taxi-recapitalisation programme to do so within the law.
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/ 22 October 2006
Tropical Storm Paul formed off Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Saturday and looked set to turn into a hurricane as it headed toward luxury resorts on the Baja California Peninsula, the United States National Hurricane Centre said. Charts showed Paul passing near the tip of the desert peninsula popular with US tourists next week.