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/ 3 May 2002

Court to hear about judges’ policy-making

SENIOR counsel for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Gilbert Marcus, is to address the Constitutional Court on Friday on whether judges can make orders which change government policy. This will take up at least the morning of the second day of the government’s appeal against a Pretoria High Court judgment ordering the Health Department to […]

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/ 2 May 2002

No guarantees on Arafat’s right to return: Sharon

ISRAEL will not guarantee Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat the right to return to the West Bank, if he travels abroad, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told ABC television’s Nightline on Wednesday. “We are not giving any guarantees for that,” Sharon said in the interview. “We’re not asked to give any guarantees, we’re not going to […]

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/ 2 May 2002

Bending to colonial masters

CABINET’S decision to "provide a comprehensive package of care for survivors of sexual assault" and to strive for a complete universal roll-out to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/Aids has, understandably, been described as a turning point, a breakthrough, a triumph of reason and a victory for the people.

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/ 2 May 2002

Actually, there is a moral high ground

Pat Schwartz’s article “There is no moral high ground” (April 26) proves the truism that history is written by the victors. There is a moral high ground in the case of Israel vs Palestine, and it is time for us, as Jewish people, to acknowledge this. It is grossly unfair to represent the conflict as […]

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/ 2 May 2002

History’s unfinished business

Swakopmund is still more German than African. <i>Daar’s die hele vokken land wat jy kan op sit,</i>" said the young, white assistant director, incorrectly using the singular pronoun to address a motley band of black extras who were sitting on a Land Rover that was supposed to be decorating the movie set.

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/ 2 May 2002

Hidden truths

In A stirring speech last week Deputy President Jacob Zuma spoke of the urgent need for South Africans to pull up their moral socks. Mr Zuma used the opportunity to announce yet another in the long line of "summits".

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/ 2 May 2002

HIV/Aids barometer – May 2002

Patent busting: Zimbabwe has declared a six-month national emergency and suspended import restrictions on drugs to treat HIV/Aids. The move, published by the Ministry of Justice, will allow cheaper generic drugs to be imported without being submitted to normal testing and registration.