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/ 25 November 2005
Is this animal welfare? I refer to the Mail & Guardian‘s article (January 18) about the tragic story of Frida the Romanian lioness, so cunningly misused by Vier Pfoten International (VPI). Last year, our department of trade and industry asked me to comment on VPI’s application to establish a sanctuary in the Free State for […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Revealed: Bleek Hoax It appears that the hallowed Bleek records, housed at the University of Cape Town (UCT), could be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the German linguist, Wilhelm Bleek, aided and abetted by his sister-in-law, Lucy Lloyd, and his daughter, Dorothea. This bombshell was dropped at a conference on marginalised languages by Bleek’s great-grandson, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
I hear the Arch I refer to the outraged responses to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s wish that whites would say “I’m sorry” and “thank you” to “the vast majority of people in this country who have been so forgiving about the past”. The fact is that any white people who lived in South Africa before 1994, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Libel? It happened! The South African Zionist Federation angrily slates as “libellous” Khadija Magardie’s reference to Israeli soldiers roughing up Palestinian workers at checkpoints and shooting little schoolgirls in the head, then coming down [from] the guard tower to “confirm the kill” (“How low can you go?” May 26). The latter incident happened, and was […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Money still lily-white The article “The new colour of money” (December 23) misleads the South African public by painting a glossy picture of black people and a bleak picture of whites. It wants us to believe that black people have finally arrived and that the future of white people in this country is as good […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Heed your subjects’ cries! Paul Harris, you are my banker. Invest wisely: R20-million would help hire and train more than 20 000 more policemen and women. You cannot stay on the sidelines and expect the government to provide all the time. Be ingenious. Come up with plans in tandem with government. Do not seek personal […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Burundi’s last active rebel group launched mortars at the capital Bujumbura in an attack hours after the country’s army claimed to have killed 41 insurgents in recent weeks, the military said on Friday. The National Liberation Forces fired three 60mm shells on Bujumbura’s eastern Mutanga and Mutanga south districts late on Thursday, without causing casualties.
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/ 25 November 2005
Banking group Absa says it is well prepared to add impetus to the empowerment drive — one of South Africa’s delicate initiatives central to the successful transformation of our society and its economy. Absa is ready to take the country’s black economic empowerment (BEE) process to greater heights, the group says.
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/ 25 November 2005
Ash blanketed the Comoros capital on Friday after the Indian Ocean archipelago’s Mount Karthala erupted for the second time this year, spewing smoke and cinders over the nation’s main island of Grand Comore. Meanwhile, Volcano Galeras, located near Colombia’s southern Colombia border with Ecuador, began erupting on Thursday.
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/ 25 November 2005
Listed South African media group Primedia on Friday reported that it achieved turnover growth of 27% for the four months to 31 October 2005. Providing a business update on Friday, CEO William Kirsch said this was a combination of excellent organic and innovative growth, as well as the benefits of acquisitions concluded this year.
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/ 25 November 2005
About 85% of the companies licensed to longline fish for tuna in local waters have question marks against their fishing rights. They include nine Korean ships operating in South Africa with local joint-venture partners, despite apparent evidence that they were granted quotas by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s Marine and Coastal Management.
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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa’s low-cost, no-frills airline, kulula.com, wants to cut high Southern African ticket prices by at least 50%, but it is battling to get rights to routes that have restricted flight frequencies and seat capacity. kulula’s executive director, Gidon Novick, says regional routes are controlled by agreements between countries. These generally only allow one airline carrier.
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/ 25 November 2005
There is a revolution spreading countrywide. It is happening in towns and cities as disparate as Knysna and Johannesburg, in big places like Durban, Cape Town and Tshwane, and small ones like Stellenbosch. At least 34 other muncipalities are also in on the game, racing to set up their own telecommunication networks.
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/ 24 November 2005
Investment holding group Remgro on Thursday reported a 17,9% increase in headline earnings per share from 491,4 cents to 579,4 cents for the six months ended September. It said the increase was favourably impacted by a share-repurchase programme.
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/ 24 November 2005
<i>Weekly Mail</i> recruits were poverty stricken, persecuted and despised, writes Anton Harber, but those who stayed afloat are now shaping the news.
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/ 24 November 2005
Former editor Howard Barrell reflects on a time of sometimes painful transition at the <i>M&G</i>.
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/ 24 November 2005
Read more on the names at the helm of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
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/ 24 November 2005
Sudan accused neighbouring Chad on Thursday of violating its airspace, sending troops across the border and supporting rebels in the war-torn western region of Darfur. The foreign ministry said a Chadian military plane overflew the Darfur town of Kubus near the border on November 5 and that several aircraft also violated Sudan’s airspace two days later.
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/ 24 November 2005
Youths in the Bosnian city of Mostar said on Thursday they were delighted they would beat Hong Kong to erect a statue honouring the late martial arts film legend Bruce Lee. The statue is to be unveiled at the weekend in the southern city more famous for its 16th-century Ottoman bridge, which reopened last year after being destroyed during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.
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/ 24 November 2005
A 15-year-old boy who shot dead most of his family in a rampage last year that shocked France appeared in court on Thursday for the beginning of his two-day trial for murder. Identified only as Pierre F because of his age, the proceedings were taking place behind closed doors in the western French city of Rouen.
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/ 24 November 2005
Foreigners in oil-rich Kuwait must be university graduates and draw a salary of not less than $1 370 a month in order to obtain a driver’s licence, the interior ministry said on Thursday. The new rules, which are effective immediately, are designed to reduce the number of vehicles on roads in the Gulf state which have recently seen serious bottlenecks and accidents.
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/ 24 November 2005
A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli troops on Wednesday during a military operation in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian medical sources said. Saleh Fuqahaa (24) died after being shot by Israeli soldiers who opened fire to disperse Palestinian stone throwers, medics and witnesses said.
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/ 24 November 2005
South Africa’s October 2005 producer price index (PPI) rose by 4,2% year-on-year from a 4,6% increase in September, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. The October PPI is "well below market expectations", said George Glynos, market analyst at Econometrix Treasury Management.
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/ 23 November 2005
Now man’s best friend can take a round in the chest and live to bark about it too, thanks to a new bulletproof vest for dogs. Manufactured by the German firm Mehler, the 3kg protective garment is on display this week at a high-tech security trade show outside Paris.
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/ 23 November 2005
South Africa’s consumer price index excluding mortgage rate changes (CPIX) for metro and other areas, which is used by the South African Reserve Bank for its inflation target, rose by 4,4% year-on-year in October after increasing by 4,7% in September, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 November 2005
Malaria could encourage mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to research on the Science and Development Network website.
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/ 22 November 2005
The JSE is planning to list next year. The stock exchange said on Tuesday it believes that listing the bourse is appropriate. The JSE board has also authorised the JSE executive to finalise a proposal to shareholders to implement a broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) initiative to demonstrate further its support of BEE.
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/ 22 November 2005
Angela Merkel was sworn in as Germany’s first woman Chancellor before the Bundestag Lower House of Parliament following her formal election by the chamber on Tuesday. The pastor’s daughter became Germany’s eighth post-war leader and the first person from the former communist east to take the helm of the reunited country.
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/ 22 November 2005
Sam, the dog whose ugliness earned him television appearances, limousine rides and even a meeting with Donald Trump, has died, the <i>Santa Barbara News-Press</i> reported on Tuesday. The pooch with the hairless body, crooked teeth and sparse tuft of hair atop his knobby head died on Friday.
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/ 22 November 2005
South African President Thabo Mbeki, the chief mediator in war-torn Côte d’Ivoire, arrived in the country on Tuesday for talks on choosing a new prime minister to unblock the peace process. Mbeki will meet with Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo and Niger President Mamadou Tandja.
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/ 22 November 2005
Government inaction before 1994 is the main reason why HIV infection has not been curbed, the Department of Health said on Tuesday. A new report on HIV/Aids by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation noted this week that at least 85% of South Africans needing anti-retroviral drugs had not received them by mid-2005.
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/ 21 November 2005
A Tanzanian man drank himself to death over the weekend after gulping down nearly a litre of vodka in an unofficial contest at a bar in the capital, police and witnesses said on Sunday. Witnesses said the man, in his 30s, and two other diehards began the fatal competition late on Friday.