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/ 7 November 2003
Political parties are becoming increasingly worried by estimates that as many as 9,5-million South Africans are not registered for the 2004 election. ”There’s a massive amount of work to be done,” African National Congress communications coordinator Steyn Speed told the Mail & Guardian. ”I don’t think we can go to an election with this number of unregistered voters.”
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/ 7 November 2003
If we accept that at least part of the present tension in our society is one of "memory against forgetting", we must accept the challenge to wade through memories — including badly written memoirs and narratives that come across as superficial or just bland. Occasionally one comes across a book that breaks this mould, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 7 November 2003
The government of Nigeria has rushed health workers to Daramba, a village on the border with Niger, following an outbreak of whooping cough — one of the six main killer diseases for children.
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/ 7 November 2003
De Beers has announced a R16,8-million investment in its "Big Hole project" at the Northern Cape mining city of Kimberley, the provincial capital, to develop the facilities on the perimeter of the famous diamond mine, which closed operations in 1914, and to boost the city’s future tourism potential.
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/ 7 November 2003
Mining magnate Brett Kebble’s court action against former business partner Mzi Khumalo has been postponed at the request of Khumalo’s legal team, Kebble said in a statement on Friday.
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/ 7 November 2003
Racism, sexism, lack of transparency and "exclusion organised around … whiteness" — these are the experiences of staff employed at the University of Witwatersrand. A survey of Wits staffers’ perceptions of change finds university still in the grip of the ‘old guard’.
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/ 7 November 2003
Schabir Shaik gave much, but he was not the only one …
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/ 7 November 2003
”I became involved in South Africa’s struggle after my visit in the 1970s, during the worst period of apartheid. Since then I have followed South Africa’s fortunes.” British director John Boorman, who has published his autobiography and is visiting the Sithengi film market, talks about making movies in South Africa.
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/ 7 November 2003
Everyone likes Sugababes, says Caroline Sullivan. Even those who are convinced that all tweenybopper bands were grown in test tubes in Dr Evil’s pop dungeon have time for the British trio. But what are the niggly rumours about personality clashes and bullying?
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/ 7 November 2003
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: If you were thinking the third Matrix movie would offer resolutions of all the loose threads left hanging in the second movie, The Matrix Reloaded, you will be disappointed. This one leaves almost as much dangling as did its immediate predecessor, writes Shaun de Waal.