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/ 1 November 2004
Scientists from the United States are preparing a makeover for the world’s most famous graveyard. A plan to control tourism, limit traffic, deflect flash floods, reduce theft and vandalism and even alter farming on the banks of the Nile could soon begin to change the face of the Valley of the Kings.
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/ 1 November 2004
President Festus Mogae’s party scored a landslide electoral victory in Botswana, winning a new mandate in the Southern African country that it has ruled since independence in 1966, results showed on Monday. Mogae’s Botswana Democratic Party won 44 of the 57 seats in Parliament.
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/ 1 November 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/140248/USA2.GIF" align=left>The three words that were on everyone’s mind did not escape John Kerry’s lips when the soaring notes of the gospel choir faded away and he rose before the congregation. With just 48 hours to go before his fate is decided, the Democratic candidate was determined to return to the closing message of his campaign — his promise of better jobs, health care and education.
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/ 1 November 2004
The practical effects of exchange control liberalisation depend largely on how the Reserve Bank views risk, according to tax experts. This week, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel announced the scrapping of exchange controls for South African companies wishing to invest offshore. However, transactions are still subject to approval by the Reserve Bank.
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/ 1 November 2004
Recently, Professor Basil Moore pointed out the extraordinary economic and social punishment meted out by the Reserve Bank’s very high real interest rate policy, amid desperate unemployment. The current singular aim of inflation targeting is the mirror image of the International Monetary Fund’s narrow market fundamentalism. There is so much more the government could be doing than merely managing inflation.
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/ 1 November 2004
"There is a Shangaan proverb that says the elephant is ours," claims Michael Masuluke, a representative from a community living next door to the Kruger National Park. "It means that if there is a job to be done, it must be done by all of us." His words echoed the sentiments of about 200 serious-minded environmentalists gathered at the Great Elephant Indaba in the Kruger recently.
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/ 1 November 2004
Last Tuesday’s vote, in which the Knesset approved Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip, is only the start of a long process. The numerous opponents of the disengagement — principally from the right — are lying in ambush, and it is far from certain that the programme will be carried out. While the pull-out may be traumatic for those forced to leave, it could be a first step towards peace with the Palestinians.
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/ 1 November 2004
There is no doubt that the National Teaching Awards (NTA) are our teaching profession’s answer to the Oscars.
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/ 1 November 2004
Fixed-line monopoly Telkom was the subject of speculation recently about what would have been one of the biggest black economic empowerment deals ever. Reports were that 15,1% of Telkom, worth about R6-billion, was available to an empowerment grouping. Names mentioned were not only African National Congress big-hitters, but also people who had been in the government. Reg Rumney takes a closer look.