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/ 21 October 2009
Ah yes, the gap between theory and practice. Science and engineering are littered with examples. And Land Rover may have just added to that list.
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/ 21 October 2009
A University of Free State cleaner involved in the Reitz racism saga said nobody had consulted them on a decision to invite the student back.
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/ 20 October 2009
President Robert Mugabe led a Zimbabwe Cabinet meeting on Tuesday despite a boycott by unity partner Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
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/ 20 October 2009
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has held his first-ever meeting with the leader of the main rebel group in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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/ 20 October 2009
Voting on Tuesday got under way in parliamentary elections in Niger despite an opposition boycott and calls for a postponement.
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/ 20 October 2009
Apple has surprised Wall Street by announcing record sales and profits, as the Californian technology company continues to defy the recession.
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/ 19 October 2009
The deputy leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood denied reports on Monday that Supreme Guide Mohammed Mahdi Akef has quit.
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/ 19 October 2009
A ticket to jihad was the prize for the winners of a team quiz organised by Somalia’s insurgent Shebab group recently.
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/ 19 October 2009
Plans to force internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect suspected illegal downloaders have been roundly rejected in a new poll.
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/ 18 October 2009
The ANC has criticised a university rector’s decision to drop disciplinary charges against four white students whose video sparked a race outcry.
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/ 18 October 2009
More than 30 000 Pakistani soldiers launched a long-expected assault on the Taliban lair of South Waziristan on Sunday.
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/ 18 October 2009
Somewhere in your email inbox last week you may have received from an acquaintance an invitation to a "Windows 7 Launch Party".
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/ 17 October 2009
In the spirited articles that the <i>M&G</i> has published on me since 2007, facts and my side of the story have always been insufficiently consulted.
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/ 17 October 2009
Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller took the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, beating longstanding favourite Amos Oz.
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/ 17 October 2009
The CCTV footage shows a baby’s pram rolling off a train platform as the mother makes a desperate lunge to save her son.
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/ 16 October 2009
The California-based company reports revenues of $5,94-billion for the last three months, with profits up 27% in the same period.
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/ 16 October 2009
An important lesson President Jacob Zuma is learning during the resurgence of service delivery protests is that a charm offensive can go only so far.
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/ 15 October 2009
The EU Commission stressed on Thursday that health and environmental factors were foremost in approving genetically modified foodstuffs.
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/ 15 October 2009
Heard the one about a telecom company being a law firm with an antenna stuck on top? Except it’s not funny.
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/ 15 October 2009
Errol Tyobeka explains the need for a conference
to assess the incoporation process of higher education institutions.
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/ 15 October 2009
An expedition has confirmed that ice is thinner than expected, highlighting fears that the region could be free of ice within a few decades.
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/ 15 October 2009
Some people take to becoming a fugitive like a duck to water. They lay low, go out only in disguise, even create whole new identities. Others do not.
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/ 14 October 2009
Gabon’s failed opposition candidates on Wednesday urged mass resistance and rejected a top court’s validation of the contested poll win of Omar Bongo.
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/ 14 October 2009
A Japanese airline is taking its weight-saving efforts to new heights, asking passengers on some of its flights to visit the restroom before flying.
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/ 14 October 2009
A German town was bracing on Wednesday for a rally by 1 250 garden gnomes with their arms raised in a Hitler salute — all in the name of art.
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/ 14 October 2009
About 70 000 women die every year and many more suffer harm as a result of unsafe abortions in countries with restrictive laws on ending pregnancy.
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/ 14 October 2009
Art experts believe a new portrait by Leonardo da Vinci may have been discovered thanks to a 500-year-old fingerprint.
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/ 13 October 2009
Pakistani fighter jets on Tuesday killed six suspected militants in fresh strikes on Taliban strongholds in the northwest, officials said.
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/ 13 October 2009
I want to live at Narina Trogon. I want those beautifully designed tables and chairs, bright, airy spaces and intriguing artwork to be mine.
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/ 13 October 2009
Apple has acknowledged that a bug in its Snow Leopard operating system can delete all of a user’s documents, music and video files.
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/ 13 October 2009
<I>M&G</i> reviewers have been hard at work selecting sounds to look out for this summer.