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Marianne Merten Three New National Party provincial leaders Mpumalanga’s Chris MacPherson, North West’s Amie Venter and the Northern Province’s Schalk van Schalkwyk are certain to win places in their provincial cabinets in terms of the cooperative governance pact between the NNP and the African National Congress announced this week. In terms of the pact, NNP […]
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David Hopps in Jaipur England’s tour of India looked in real danger of cancellation after Jagmohan Dalmiya, president of the Indian cricket board, angrily refused to recognise the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) deadline of noon on Friday, Calcutta time, for confirmation that India’s suspended batsman Virender Sehwag will not play in next week’s first Test […]
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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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Comment Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela President Thabo Mbeki’s speech at Fort Hare will lay nothing to rest. The president’s latest conspiracy theory on the Aids issue that Aids statistics have more to do with derogatory views (that “we” are “promiscuous carriers of germs” with an “unconquerable devotion to the sin of lust”) than sexual behaviour comes at […]
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Bongani Majola “Condoms! Condoms!” shouts Vusi Fahla (28) as he distributes condoms to the passing taxis. Words such as HIV/Aids, condoms and AZT are an inseparable part of his life. He is the project manager for Friends for Life, an NGO that provides life skills to HIV-infected people, home-based care for patients and pre-test, post-test […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Set-top boxes are about to revolutionise the way we “consume” television by making it more interactive David Shapshak When Bill Gates famously ignored the Internet until his equally famous turnaround that propelled Microsoft into its current leading position in numerous Net technologies he thought the next big thing was going to be interactive television. Despite […]
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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
I had of late started to lose enthusiasm for buying and reading the Mail & Guardian, what with that obnoxious man Sipho Seepe blathering all over my weekly read. I am told he also goes under the pretext of being a professor but I think he can safely be referred to as a palooka. But […]
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THULI NHLAPO, NAWAAL DEANE, Johannesburg | Friday THE Human Rights Commission (HRC) pulled out of helping the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in its landmark challenge to the government on HIV/Aids after the commission’s then chair, Barney Pityana, got a phone call from the state’s advocate. After speaking to the state’s senior counsel, Marumo Moerane, in […]
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ANALYSIS Firoz Osman It is becoming more apparent that the war in Afghanistan has nothing to do with terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban or the World Trade Centre. Realpolitik, the need and greed for oil and gas are, once again, the source of misery and tragedy. This time it is happening in central Asia, […]