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/ 9 November 2001

Label libel curtails debate

A communist party politburo discussion document titled “Defend the Unity of our Alliance, Defend Democratic Debate” raises the fear that the ANC is stifling political discussion The African National Congress’s Briefing Notes on the Alliance is now in wide circulation. In principle, the South African Communist Party welcomes any attempt to foster debate within the […]

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/ 9 November 2001

Mbeki to push for council seats

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni President Thabo Mbeki is set to use his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the weekend to launch a major drive for Africa’s inclusion in international bodies such as the UN Security Council. The inclusion of the African continent on the Security Council has been the […]

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/ 9 November 2001

Dealing with diabetes

November 14 is World Diabetes Day, but the government has paid little attention to the rise of the disease Barbara Erasmus South Africa could learn a lesson from Tanzania when it comes to confronting the two plagues of the millennium the high-profile killer Aids and the less acknowledged pandemic diabetes. Tanzania has achieved recognition for […]

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/ 9 November 2001

For the love of jazzing

Marianne Merten Take sakkie-sakkie, add a substantial dose of hip-swaying rumba or samba steps and sultry salsa moves. What do you get? Jazzing, a particular Cape style of dancing at the heart of a competition currently on in three cities. Jazzing was born at the house parties of the Sixties to shake off the frustrations […]

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/ 9 November 2001

Church fray over Mbeki’s Aids message

Jaspreet Kindra Men in rural KwaZulu-Natal constantly said they did not need to change their sexual behaviour because “the big man” President Thabo Mbeki believed sex and HIV/Aids were not linked, according to an Anglican bishop. “That is the message that is destroying human lives across this country, and for which President Mbeki is being […]

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/ 9 November 2001

‘Cover-up to protect Mbeki and Mufamadi’

The former head of the presidential investigative unit ‘was offered bribes’ to take the rap Zenzile Khoisan Senior police officials are probing detailed claims of an attempt by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to cover up damaging evidence in the trial of a top policeman and save face for former safety and security minister Sydney […]

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/ 9 November 2001

Big bucks for bosses, no bonus for e.tv staff

Three directors of the struggling TV station’s holding company are to share R4-million Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane It will be a grim Christmas for e.tv staffers when, for the third year running, they go off on vacation without a bonus. But the three executive directors of e.tv’s loss-making holding company, Hoskens Consolidated Investments (HCI) […]

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/ 9 November 2001

Big hospital of horrors

An audit this week reveals the gangrene of immorality eating away at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, writes Belinda Beresford Vulnerable and in pain they may be, but patients at the world’s largest hospital have no guarantee they will even have sheets to cover themselves when they finally make it past the chaos of admissions into […]

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/ 9 November 2001

Food & drink

You don’t really want to know what goes on in restaurant kitchens, do you? You’d be a lot happier not knowing about the fights, the blood, the drugs, the amoebas, the “hypermacho posturing and drunken ranting”. You don’t want to know why you shouldn’t order an elaborate special, particularly if there’s fish in it, or […]