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/ 24 February 2009
Zackie Achmat: local and global inequality touches everyone. It cannot be resolved in a single election cycle.
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/ 24 February 2009
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein: What will be the state of our nation in the future? What is our vision for South Africa?
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/ 24 February 2009
The contrast between the presidential candidates for Cope and the ANC could hardly be more could hardly be more striking.
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/ 24 February 2009
South Africa’s real gross domestic product dropped by -1,8% in the fourth quarter of 2008 from +1,2% in the third quarter, Stats SA said on Tuesday.
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/ 24 February 2009
Lonmin, the world’s third-largest platinum producer, on Tuesday confirmed that it would cut up to 5 500 jobs at its Marikana and Limpopo operations.
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/ 23 February 2009
Thousands of elephant fans have registered on an online site promising live footage of the first birth of an elephant in Belgium.
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/ 23 February 2009
Detailed evidence has emerged of Israel’s extensive use of US-made weaponry during its war in Gaza last month, including phosphorus artillery shells.
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/ 23 February 2009
Zimbabwean diplomats, long used to leading comfortable lifestyles in foreign lands, are living like paupers.
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/ 22 February 2009
Taliban fighters and Pakistani government officials have agreed a controversial deal which will lead to a "permanent ceasefire" in the Swat valley.
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/ 21 February 2009
A review ordered by Barack Obama into conditions at Guantánamo Bay has found that prisoners are being treated in line with international standards.
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/ 20 February 2009
As Latvia’s economy shrinks, making fun of the state’s embattled leaders — with mocking T-shirts and penguin posters — has become quite popular.
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/ 20 February 2009
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says the global economic crisis is not likely to be over shortly.
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/ 20 February 2009
A weaker local currency failed to limit losses as South African stocks fell deeper into the red by noon on Friday.
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/ 20 February 2009
Carl Niehaus, the ANC’s former spin doctor, tried some spinning of his own this week as allegations mounted that he owed millions to creditors.
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/ 20 February 2009
Despite the fact that interest rates have dropped by 1,5% since December 2008, it is unlikely that the house market will stage a rebound during 2009.
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/ 20 February 2009
Professor Richard Zann, an internationally respected ornithologist was among the victims in the bushfire that wreaked havoc outside of Melbourne.
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/ 20 February 2009
Understanding the forces of evolution is more urgent now, if the negative evolutionary impact on global fisheries is to be prevented.
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/ 20 February 2009
What really matters about the Niehaus story is the chaos within the ANC and the deep structural pathology of its political culture.
Paula Akugizibwe discovers her hometown, Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, is rapidly catching up with 21st-century pop culture.
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/ 19 February 2009
Mvelaphanda Resources on Thursday announced plans that would see the company restructured with a view to delisting.
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/ 19 February 2009
The death toll in the worst wildfires in Australia’s history has risen to 208, after seven more bodies were found, police said on Thursday.
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/ 19 February 2009
The investigation into the business empire of cricket tycoon Allen Stanford sowed panic in the Caribbean and Latin America on Wednesday.
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/ 19 February 2009
Zimbabwe’s government took its first step towards rebuilding the nation on Wednesday, honouring a pledge to civil servants to pay them in US dollars.
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/ 18 February 2009
Gunmen attacked a compound housing ExxonMobil staff in the Niger Delta but were repulsed after a fierce battle the oil company said on Wednesday.
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/ 18 February 2009
Resources led the downside as the JSE slipped into negative territory by noon on Wednesday, moving in line with weak Eastern markets.
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/ 18 February 2009
Former ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus’s "personal situation" was the effects of his "time spent in prison for his principled opposition to apartheid".
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/ 18 February 2009
Circumcision as a test of manhood. That’s dangerous, crafting messages that endorse discrimination and exclusion.
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/ 17 February 2009
The National Assembly on Tuesday agreed to amend the Bill allowing it to sack the entire SABC board, as the original Bill was deemed unconstitutional.
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/ 17 February 2009
The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that official economic recovery efforts were floundering.
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/ 17 February 2009
Sri Lanka’s cornered Tamil Tiger rebels have intensified conscription of child soldiers, some as young as 14, Unicef said on Tuesday.
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/ 17 February 2009
More than 18 000 people from nearly 200 countries have applied for the "best job in the world".
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/ 17 February 2009
The fate of an Israeli soldier should not be linked to talks on a long-term truce with Hamas in Gaza, president Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday.