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Swaziland: University of Witwatersrand Continues its Xenophobic Policy against Swazi Students

AllAfrica News: Southern Africa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:04:43 +0000

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Two years ago the Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN) sought the intervention of the South African Ministry of Higher Education over its racist and downright xenophobic policy towards Swazi students.

South Africa: Organizations Finally Receive Global Fund Grants

AllAfrica News: Southern Africa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:47:05 +0000

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More than seven months overdue, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria grant will finally be released to key South African AIDS organizations that have been struggling to survive. Some were on the verge of shutting down.

South Africa: Gadgets Get a Boost With Recharging Handbag

AllAfrica News: Southern Africa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:19:50 +0000

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Fashionistas will no longer be lost for words – one of the most talked about pieces from the ongoing London Fashion Week is a Richard Nicoll handbag that can power a cellphone.

South Africa: Three More International Acts for Cape Jazz Fest

AllAfrica News: Southern Africa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:19:49 +0000

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Three more international acts have been announced for the 13th Cape Town International Jazz Festival, at the CTICC on Friday, 30 and Saturday, 31 March, 2012. They are Jill Scott, Steve Tyrell and Pharoahe Monch – all from the US.

Mozambique: Maputo Council Workforce Numbers 2,770

AllAfrica News: Southern Africa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:11:27 +0000

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A census of the workforce undertaken in 2011 shows that Maputo City Council employs 2,770 people – rather fewer than the figure of 3,000 that has been habitually claimed.

Mozambique: Japan Promises Further Investments

AllAfrica News: Southern Africa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:11:25 +0000

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The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has told Mozambican Prime Minister Aires Ali that it plans to prioritise the development of the Nacala rail corridor in northern Mozambique in its plans for the next five years.

Mozambique: Teachers Forced to Contribute to Frelimo Congress

AllAfrica News: Southern Africa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:11:23 +0000

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All teachers in Murrupula district, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula, are suffering compulsory discounts from their wages to support the Tenth Congress of the ruling Frelimo Party, due to be held in September – even though such deductions are both illegal, and contrary to express instructions given by the Frelimo leadership.

Mozambique: Kidnappers Will Be Brought to Justice, Says Government

AllAfrica News: Southern Africa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:11:21 +0000

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Those responsible for the recent wave of kidnappings in Maputo will be brought to justice, pledged the government’s official spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Alberto Nkutumula, on Tuesday.

Greece is a smokescreen to hide the mother of all bank bailouts

Nick Dearden — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:24:05 +0000

Eurozone finance ministers who sat in Brussels and decide Greece’s future last night should have attended yesterday’s well-timed University of London conference on learning lessons from Latin America. The central lesson is of urgent importance: that the economic policies pushed on Latin America in the early 1980s were an excellent way of helping US banks out of crisis, but an appalling way of resolving Latin America’s debt crisis, instead creating two decades of more debt, poverty and (…)

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Greece is a smokescreen to hide the mother of all bank bailouts

Nick Dearden — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:24:05 +0000

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Greece,
Debt and austerity in Northern countries