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/ 30 November 2001
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday President Thabo Mbeki’s ministerial committee that oversaw the Government’s 66-billion arms acquisition intervened to set conditions for the arms investigation after Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota initially gave investigators carte blanche. The Mail & Guardian reported earlier that the executive invoked sections of the apartheid-era Special Defence Account Act to […]
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/ 30 November 2001
The Airports Company is reeling from several security-related controversies Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The chair of the Airports Company of South Africa, prominent businessman Mashudu Ramano, was briefly held this week for questioning on suspicion of having fake citizenship documents. His arrest is the latest in a series of debilitating events to strike the South […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Pretoria | Friday A HIGH Court judge in South Africa on Thursday sentenced four white policemen to between four and five years in jail for urging their dogs to maul Mozambican immigrants, and called the 1998 attack “cruel and brutal.” “The assault was brutal. It was cruel and it was carried out on victims who […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Belinda Beresford December 1 is World Aids Day, when red ribbons will be sported worldwide, speeches and promises made and learned research released and debated. Heart-rending stories of the dyingand those they leave behind, indignant news items about the high cost of drugs, and hand-wringing about the failure to change human behaviour push Aids to […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Thabo Mohlala Although there is no cure for Aids yet, many people who are HIV positive advise that speaking out and accepting one’s status is in itself a prophylaxis. It not only has a therapeutic effect so the theory goes but also prepares one to deal with emotional stress and stigma. More significantly, it enables […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Frances Kinghorn The commemoration of International Day of Disabled Persons this year will be bitter-sweet when the Disabled People of South Africa (DPSA) present a memorandum on disability grants to Deputy President Jacob Zuma in Port Elizabeth on Monday. The memorandum is expected to express concern over government expenditure on social grants for people with […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Paul Kirk President Thabo Mbeki’s ministerial committee that oversaw the Government’s R66-billion arms acquisition intervened to set conditions for the arms investigation after Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota initially gave investigators carte blanche. The Mail & Guardian reported earlier that the executive invoked sections of the apartheid-era Special Defence Account Act to give the government […]
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/ 30 November 2001
But Asmal’s drastic intervention this week in Unisa’s governance crisis has delighted academics at the troubled university David Macfarlane Nearly R200 000 in less than two years: that’s the cash Unisa council chairperson McCaps Motimele has milked from the university in contravention of Unisa policies, says the auditor general. But scarcely anyone on the controversy-ridden […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Natural herbs have no side effects and are less expensive than Western-based medication Thabo Mohlala The rapid spread of Aids, combined with the expense and difficulty in obtaining Western medicine, is forcing more people to consult traditional healers in search of a cure. But do the government and other players in the medical fraternity appreciate […]
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/ 30 November 2001
A KwaZulu-Natal man is writing to the president asking him to visit and bring hope to Aids sufferers Jaspreet Kindra Arthur Jokweni (20) wants to take President Thabo Mbeki to rural KwaZulu-Natal where HIV/Aids is “killing the community”. He wants to show Mbeki the face of Aids in areas where people have to travel more […]