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/ 20 October 2003

You do not want to be branded a propagandist in these parts, son.

There’s an obvious danger in undertaking an in-depth cover piece on the chief of government’s communications apparatus. When one is reporting for an audience of media professionals, a significant percentage of whom are editors and journalists trained in the watchdog paradigm, one runs the unsettling risk of being written off as a lapdog of the leadership, a pawn for politicos, a flunky of the ruling faction.

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/ 20 October 2003

Skweyiya urges Bills not be displaced

Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya has appealed to the Speaker of the National Assembly to ensure that the South African Social Security Agency Bill and the Social Assistance Bill not be displaced from the programme of Parliament this year. The two Bills were to have been debated on October 21.

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/ 20 October 2003

Scrum down over rights

The international media rarely descend on Australia — the last occasion was the 2000 Sydney Olympics — and for some Aboriginal Australians the Rugby World Cup has presented a rare opportunity to highlight the shabby state of indigenous affairs in many parts of the sport-mad nation.

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/ 20 October 2003

Call to step up electricity reforms

South Africa has less than five years to increase its capacity for electricity generation, Xolani Mkhwanazi, National Electricity Regulator (NER) CEO, warned last week. Mkhwanazi’s comments coincided with the release of the NER’s annual report. His call for greater urgency was echoed by a range of industry players.

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/ 20 October 2003

Adams reaches career-best seven

Left-arm spinner Paul Adams took a career-best 7-128 as South Africa restricted Pakistan’s first-innings total on the third day of the first Test at Gaddafi stadium on Sunday. Adams snapped five wickets to bring Pakistan’s innings to a close on 401 after the home side had been 346-5 at lunch.