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What to do about our unemployed doctors

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It’s official. Austerity budgets may be here to stay. Here’s how South Africa should be working with what it’s got to provide healthcare.
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Austerity is an assault on the poor

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Hyper-cartels now determine the global market, feeding the few and starving the many
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Recession risks hitting healthcare where it counts

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Experts warn state clinics and hospitals are likely to further deteriorate as the public purse shrinks.
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Fears as Durban loses last state cancer specialist

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Only two state cancer specialists remain in the province of more than 10-million people.
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Athens tears up austerity handbook

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The new leaders want to ease the 'humanitarian crisis' – but Greece's creditors are not impressed.
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Greece’s new leader moves to form anti-austerity government

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The election result marked a comprehensive rejection of the years of austerity demanded by the EU and IMF in return for the €240-billion bailout.
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Greeks take risky election gamble

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Failure to elect a new president will pit the ruling Samaras coalition against the popular radical left Syriza party.
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World Bank’s flawed report kicks SA’s poor in the teeth

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The institution has failed to retract a document that neoliberal politicians and commentators are using to advocate state spending cuts.
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War over Europe’s economic future heats up

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Resentment is growing over German chancellor Angela Merkel's leadership and fiscal austerity measures.
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Groundswell of anger over EU austerity

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Plans of a second day of action in European cities.
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Ask a lab rat: austerity hurts

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The failure of the British experiment should prove the point made by IMF economists.
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Paul Krugman goes against the grain

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A renowned academic is adamant that austerity and deficit reduction will not aid a recovery.
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The killing of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appears to be linked to tender fraud and corruption
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Press Releases

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Response to the report of the independent assessors

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VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.
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NWU student receives international award

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Carol-Mari Schulz received the Bachelor of Health Sciences in Occupational Hygiene Top Achiever Award.
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Academic programme resumes at all campuses

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Lectures, practicals, seminars and tutorials will all resume today as per specific academic timetables.
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Special Reports

Strategic social investments are a catalyst for social progress

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Barloworld Mbewu enables beneficiaries to move away from dependence on grant funding
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We all have a part to play to make South Africa work

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Powering societal progress demands partnerships between all stakeholders
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So you want to be a social entrepreneur?

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Do the research first; it will save money and time later
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Social entrepreneurship means business

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Enterprises with a cause at their core might be exactly what our economy desperately needs
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Looking inwards

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Businesses are finding tangible ways to give back – but only because consumers demand it
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It’s official. Austerity budgets may be here to stay. Here’s how South Africa should be working with what it’s got to provide healthcare.

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