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/ 20 October 2006
"Today, the overriding importance of media and information has made the pen — or at least the computer — perhaps the most powerful weapon of all," writes Zwelinzima Vavi. South African journalists defend the current capitalist economic system as logical and good, and strive to ensure its survival.
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/ 20 October 2006
South Africans are about to get hit with an avalanche of pay TV options from next year — some of them delivered to your cellphone. Until now MultiChoice — which owns M-Net and DStv — has been the sole provider of subscription TV in South Africa, but that’s about to change.
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/ 20 October 2006
The interior world of the dancer arrived on stage at this year’s FNB Dance Umbrella, reports Matthew Krouse.
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/ 20 October 2006
The government is committed to halving the number of unemployed people by 2014. Aggressively attacking mass unemployment in South Africa is a moral imperative, especially since creating decent jobs is the most effective means of fighting poverty. But is the government’s goal realistic?
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/ 20 October 2006
For the majority of HIV-infected Zimbabwean workers payday has become a time to make tough choices. Such workers, many of whom earn less than Z$30Â 000 (R300) a month, have to decide between buying a month’s supply of antiretrovirals (ARVs) or food.
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/ 20 October 2006
Brett Murray’s sculptures play with notions of white identity. He spoke to Chris Roper.
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/ 20 October 2006
Oil has been such an economic bogeyman in recent times, hogging the headlines, that not noticed is as severe a threat — food inflation. Food staple maize has been trading internationally at record highs, driven by the world’s move to energy diversification to produce bio-fuels as an alternative to fossil fuels.
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/ 20 October 2006
A Bangladeshi economist last week won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to lift millions out of poverty by lending tiny amounts of money directly to the neediest people on the planet. Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded were presented with the award and the 10-million kronor cheque for his work in creating a nation of entrepreneurs.
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/ 20 October 2006
It could be the cover of a romantic ballad album, a man in a blue shirt with a soft gaze and a heartfelt paean that begins: ”Always, I did everything for love.” Meet Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan President, socialist revolutionary, globetrotting firebrand, Washington nemesis and now, in election campaign mode, a lover.
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/ 20 October 2006
A new research report, which was prepared by Genesis Analytics for regional development initiative the ComMark Trust, says that if the Southern African region is to benefit from the huge number of tourists who will be visiting South Africa for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, countries have to start liberalising their air transport routes now.