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/ 2 September 2004
Britain’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds — worried that its feathered friends are underfed — has devised a highly original and not very scientific means to measure a possible decline in the insect population, The Independent reported on Thursday.
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/ 2 September 2004
The Department of Health is willing to negotiate its controversial dispensing fee regulations but will only do so if pharmacists withdraw their court action, the department’s Humphrey Zokufa said on Thursday. ”Yes, we will negotiate, but only if they withdraw their court action,” said Zokufa.
Cape pharmacies open after protest
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/ 2 September 2004
Israel threatened to launch a military attack against Syria on Thursday, accusing Damascus of being directly implicated in a double Hamas suicide attack. As Israel’s top diplomats pressed their case that Damascus should pay the price for sheltering Hamas leaders, Deputy Defence Minister Zeev Boim hinted a strike on Syrian targets could be imminent.
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/ 2 September 2004
South African Democratic Teacher’s Union (Sadtu) members turned out in full force around the country to demonstrate their frustration with the government’s offer of a 5,5% salary increase. Sadtu spokesperson Jon Lewis said an estimated 30Â 000 people marched through the streets of Johannesburg.
Minister: Teachers’ strike ‘ill-timed’
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/ 2 September 2004
It will inevitably result in a book and a film, but the story of Germany’s cannibal has already brought a summer chart hit to the country’s masters of the macabre: hard-rock band Rammstein. "The soft and the hard parts are all on the menu, it’s so good with seasoning and flambéd," go the not so subtle lyrics of Rammstein’s <i>Mein Teil (My Part)</i>.
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/ 2 September 2004
The strike by some South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) members is ill-timed and has the potential of disrupting learning and teaching in schools, Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Thursday. Sadtu planned protest marches on Thursday in all nine provinces.
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/ 2 September 2004
HIV/Aids is threatening subsistence agriculture in much of Southern Africa with long-term decline, according to a major new study. The trend that has ominous implications for the country’s food supply, warns the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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/ 2 September 2004
The Department of Housing is to collapse the current housing subsidy system and provide a full housing subsidy of R25 800 for the "hardcore poor", which includes the unemployed and the elderly. The new plan aims to "obliterate" informal household structures within 10 years.
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/ 2 September 2004
More than 900 Spoornet employees may face retrenchment in the next 60 days, the company said in Johannesburg on Thursday. Spoornet acting general manager Vusi Mncube said the possible retrenchments are part of an effort to improve operational efficiency. Spoornet has started consulting unions on the possible retrenchments.
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/ 2 September 2004
South African media and entertainment group Primedia on Wednesday announced it has received regulatory approval for its proposed acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital of New Africa Media Holdings and, as a result, the acquisition of 66,5% of the entire issued share capital of KFM.