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/ 25 November 2005
The Wail fills the passion gap Goodness gracious me! All these years I thought Steven Fried-person wrote the horse-racing column! Thank you, Madame Editor, for the honorary mention in your ”A 21st century M&G” piece celebrating/commemorating/salivating on 20 years of the newspaper. My Saturday afternoon slumber was pleasantly interrupted by an old friend, Aso Balan […]
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/ 25 November 2005
loveLife on target Your report (”Documents contradict loveLife”, January 6) appears to be based on selective release of internal documents by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria secretariat. It is not clear whether they also made public the findings of two independent panels of experts appointed to appraise the facts concerning loveLife’s […]
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/ 25 November 2005
How to tire Zuma The Art of Seduction, by JZ: If she is wearing a dress; she is asking for it. If she crosses her legs; she is asking for it. If she visits your house; she is asking for it. When a woman says ”no”; she is asking for it. Never visit the beach […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Kebble’s M&G link In response to the article ”Kebble case under way when DA accepted cash”, (August 25). The Democratic Alliance did not have any reason to believe that Brett Kebble was under suspicion at the time that we received our last donation from him in February 2004. We have also never had any reason […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Basotho are gatvol The current Lesotho Congress of Democrats government has riled me, a proud Mosotho. In 2004 the government decided to increase the salaries and packages of MPs, ministers and permanent secretaries by a whopping 85%. Some are reported to have received more than a 90% increase. In one of the world’s poorest countries, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
A whole lot of bull I am struck by the moral dishonesty of those who attacked the SPCA’s response to the slaughtering ritual Tony Yengeni was responsible for (”The great bull debate”, January 26). If someone objects to ”cultural practices” like bride burning, dry sex or female genital excision, is she also guilty of ”selective […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Ego and pig-headedness South Africa’s anti-retroviral (ARV) medication versus nutrition debate is not unique in the world. But what is unique to this country is its scale and that the government is placed within the ”alternative” camp, with civil society, including the Treatment Action Campaign, the protagonist of mainstream science and medicine. This has led […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Iraqi officials have promised to deploy up to 10 000 extra men to boost security ahead of a December 15 general election after a rebel bombing campaign killed more than 180 people in the past week. Both United States and Iraqi officials have warned of the likelihood of increasing violence ahead of the elections.
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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
He may have the image of a dour, cloistered Oxford don with little knowledge of ordinary struggles. But CS Lewis, who wrote of epic struggles between good and evil in the imaginary land of Narnia, actually had a humorous side, his stepson says.
Douglas Gresham (60) is co-producer of the film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.