In stark contrast to the draft black economic empowerment Codes of Good Practice released two weeks ago, the draft health-care charter has laid out aggressive ownership equity targets for the sector. The Department of Trade and Industry launched its draft empowerment Codes of Good Practice recently, setting a target of 25,1% of black equity ownership within the next 10 years.
One day we will look back on the effort to deny the effects of climate change as we now look back on the work of Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist who insisted that the entire canon of genetics was wrong. There was no limit to an organism’s ability to adapt to changing environments. Cultivated correctly, crops could do anything the Soviet leadership wanted them to do.
I’m irritated partly on aesthetic grounds. Have you seen these things? More often than not, they’re an emetic purple and bring to mind nothing so much as a deformed limb. And that’s if you’re lucky. Increasingly, sex-toy production seems to be under the influence of some kind of paraphiliac dadaism.
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Three Sunnis working on the draft of Iraq’s new Constitution were gunned down in Baghdad on Tuesday, rattling hopes expressed earlier in the day that the new charter might be completed ahead of schedule. At least 31 people were killed on Tuesday in Iraq violence, police and military officials said.
Flights at Johannesburg International airport will be disrupted when aviation members of the United Association of South Africa (Uasa) embark on industrial action from Wednesday after a deadlock in negotiations, Uasa said on Tuesday. Uasa is the largest representative union of ground staff and cabin crew at South African Airways.
Despite the executive committee of the Eastern Province Rugby Union (EPRU) having been suspended, rugby will continue as usual, the EPRU said on Tuesday. Crisis talks took place at the EPRU Stadium on Tuesday after the committee was temporarily relieved of its powers late on Monday evening.
Around the outskirts of the Israeli village of Kfar Maimon, police vehicles and water cannons patrol. Tens of thousands of would-be marchers, angered at the settlement pull-out plan due to swing into action on August 17, spent the night in Kfar Maimon following the first showdown with the Israeli authorities on Monday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday he is ”anxious” for Pakistani authorities to crack down on hard-line Islamic schools, which some of the London bombers are thought to have attended. Britain has been working with the Pakistani government to take measures against such schools, Blair told reporters in London.
Leigh Matthews’s father, Rob, said on Tuesday his family is ready to testify at the trial of Donovan Moodley, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered the 21-year-old university student. According to the indictment, all the members of the Matthews family will give evidence at the trial, which starts on Monday.