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/ 27 November 2009
A poem was written by Agnes Mahachi and Tafadzwa Chikandiwa during the Powa/CDP 16 Days of No Violence against Women Project in Musina November 2009.
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/ 27 November 2009
The United Kingdom is at the forefront of tackling dangerous climate change, underpinned by world-class scientific expertise and advice.
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/ 26 November 2009
Today’s guide shows you how to get protection through the courts If you are in an abusive relationship or a child in your care is being abused.
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/ 26 November 2009
The European Aeronautic Defence and Space company is ready to retaliate against SA after it cancelled an Airbus contract, a report said on Thursday.
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/ 26 November 2009
It’s a done deal. Former justice director general Menzi Simelane has been appointed national director of public prosecutions.
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/ 26 November 2009
The African Media Initiative (AMI) has announced that Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Trevor Ncube have been appointed co-chairs of its board.
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/ 26 November 2009
A Mexican thief dubbed "El Tigre" was arrested while using the toilet during a robbery in the central city of Puebla, police said.
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/ 26 November 2009
Whistleblower website Wikileaks has published what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11 2001 attacks.
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/ 25 November 2009
We’ve all heard the sounds of a child screaming. But what practical steps can you take if you seriously suspect a child you know is being abused?
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/ 25 November 2009
The United States welcomed on Wednesday a Pakistani court’s decision to charge seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks.
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/ 25 November 2009
SA’s "gender machinery is in disarray", with it not even being clear who is coordinating the 16 Days of Activism campaign, a group of NGOs say.
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/ 25 November 2009
Zimbabwe’s ailing public health system will receive a $180-million boost to fight HIV/Aids from the Global Fund, it was reported on Wednesday.
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/ 25 November 2009
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> is running a series of interviews with South African authors. Angela Makholwa talks to us.
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/ 24 November 2009
The world’s oldest sheep has died in Australia after succumbing to a record-breaking heatwave that scorched much of the country’s southeast.
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/ 24 November 2009
An Israeli minister said on Tuesday that a deal with Hamas to swap a Gaza-held soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners was "very close".
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/ 23 November 2009
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> is running a series of interviews with South African authors. Siphiwo Mahala talks to us.
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/ 23 November 2009
Young African writers interested in challenging stereotypes met in Lagos for the first of three writers’ laboratories run by Sparck.
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/ 23 November 2009
The captain of an Indonesian ferry which sank, killing 29 people, rejected claims of overcrowding on Monday.
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/ 23 November 2009
Low-cost airline Mango said on Monday that it would not increase its fares, despite an escalation in the fuel price this year.
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/ 23 November 2009
The head of the IMF said on Monday that although the worst
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/ 23 November 2009
Microsoft has held talks with News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google.
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/ 23 November 2009
Major Nidal Hasan, who has been charged with 13 murders over the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, is paralysed from the neck down, says his lawyer.
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/ 20 November 2009
There are some issues that we humans cannot reach agreement on, such as whether Mercedes-Benz GL owners actually ever take their cars off-road.
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/ 20 November 2009
There was a rare moment of political unanimity in SA this week as parties laid into reggae singer Ras Dumisani.
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/ 20 November 2009
Children who have been sexually abused might feel like their world is falling apart when testifying in a criminal court against an alleged perpetrator
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/ 20 November 2009
A project to create safe communities and schools for children in Lavender Hill, Cape Town, has a name that says it all: ‘Children Are Precious’.
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/ 20 November 2009
Laws are not enough to protect children and should not be used as a primary barometer of how effective a country is in securing the rights of children
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/ 20 November 2009
The new head of Greenpeace has challenged Barack Obama to agree to a binding treaty, writes David Smith.
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/ 20 November 2009
Prisoners file a class action against the minister of justice for failing to provide transcripts of trials.
Masibulele Yaso and Jeremy Gordin report.
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/ 20 November 2009
The ANC may be belatedly castigating Thabo Mbeki for his Aids denial, but the failure of the past decade is more systemic than one man’s error.
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/ 20 November 2009
The co-founder of Twitter warns Rupert Murdoch that his plans to charge for online content were a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle".
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/ 20 November 2009
Peruvian police have arrested a gang which allegedly killed peasants, drained their bodies of fat and sold the liquid as an anti-wrinkle cosmetic.