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/ 25 November 2005
”If you love life, then it’s the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do,” said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa’s first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.
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/ 25 November 2005
Four men who shot a police officer dead and injured two others in Rosebank, Johannesburg, on Friday struck again later in Fourways, police said. A spokesperson said the gunmen picked up the trail of a man who had collected money at an American Express outlet in Rosebank and followed him all the way to Fourways.
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/ 25 November 2005
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Friday lit a flame at the Katlehong Stadium to launch a campaign of 16 days of activism against the abuse of women and children. ”This is the flame of no violence … that must burn throughout the year in our hearts and in our lives,” Mlambo-Ngcuka said.
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/ 25 November 2005
The Democratic Alliance would continue to stand as an independent party even if the ruling African National Congress split, says leader Tony Leon. In his regular internet column on Friday, he said the DA would fight to ensure that any new government reversed the current government’s ”denialist approach to HIV/Aids”, among other things.
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/ 25 November 2005
Environmental experts on Friday warned the slick of cancer-causing benzene moving along China’s Songhua river could pose a long-term risk to human health, contaminate the food chain and damage the region’s fragile ecosystem. As the 80km-long highly toxic column moved into Harbin, capital of the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, analysts said dangers would remain for years.
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In his regular internet column on Friday, ANC Today, President Thabo Mbeki said his statements dealing with the Jacob Zuma affair can ”by no stretch of imagination” be interpreted as expressing ”a hostile or malicious attitude” to the former deputy president.
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/ 25 November 2005
Beware of group think Jillian Carmen’s letter (May 5) left me in two minds. I admire her, and accept Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s sentiments about the need for repentance. But there remains a nagging feeling that this leaves a lot of the truth unsaid, and that there can be unfairness in what amounts to group thinking […]
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/ 25 November 2005
It’s the economy, stupid Editor Ferial Haffajee makes some bold statements and assertions in her article ”Meaning of the Selebi saga” (December 21). She should have been more cautious and thoughtful; I found her arguments loosely constructed. High-personality crimes usually give rise to such outcries. While the government believes one murder is a murder too […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Just how low could she go? The headline of Khadija Magardie’s article on May 26, ”How low can you go?”, presumably refers to the waistlines of army-issued trousers for women soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). It is more fitting to relate it to the gutter journalism it represents. The venom and vitriol spewed […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Kirby’s colonial project Robert Kirby writes that Shakespeare’s plays and poetry ”stand on their own, immune from any historical context” (June 9). Really? How was he able to achieve this feat? Surely any writing is influenced by, and rooted in, contemporary public discourse and the prevailing mores of its time. It stands to reason that […]