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/ 25 November 2005
Prove it or shut up! Since May this year, the Mail & Guardian has fed us a series of articles on police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s alleged “links” with people allegedly under investigation by the so-called elite crime-busting unit for alleged contraband networks. Yet to date no one has been charged with crime related to […]
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/ 25 November 2005
I hear the Arch I refer to the outraged responses to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s wish that whites would say “I’m sorry” and “thank you” to “the vast majority of people in this country who have been so forgiving about the past”. The fact is that any white people who lived in South Africa before 1994, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Is this animal welfare? I refer to the Mail & Guardian‘s article (January 18) about the tragic story of Frida the Romanian lioness, so cunningly misused by Vier Pfoten International (VPI). Last year, our department of trade and industry asked me to comment on VPI’s application to establish a sanctuary in the Free State for […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Libel? It happened! The South African Zionist Federation angrily slates as “libellous” Khadija Magardie’s reference to Israeli soldiers roughing up Palestinian workers at checkpoints and shooting little schoolgirls in the head, then coming down [from] the guard tower to “confirm the kill” (“How low can you go?” May 26). The latter incident happened, and was […]
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/ 25 November 2005
JZ abusing culture I am proud to be a Zulu woman, and think Zulu culture, like other South African cultures, should be celebrated. But I am sick and tired of Jacob Zuma hiding behind Zulu culture whenever he shoots himself in the foot. During his rape trial he claimed the victim had seduced him and […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Don’t let it happen! The 16 days focus on gender violence and World Aids Day prompted me to submit this prayer, formulated at an HIV/Aids workshop. — Reverend Renate Cochrane, Hout Bay Thembisa’s Prayer O God I am kneeling before you and scream without a voice You are the only one who can see my […]
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/ 25 November 2005
All faiths used violence Pope Benedict, in trying to argue that religion should not be spread by force, failed to say that the Catholic Church, indeed Christianity, has been guilty of this. Strife between Catholicism and Protestantism, and the use of force to maintain orthodoxies by the rack, burning and warfare, are an unedifying history. […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Approximately two-thirds (68,97%) of top South African companies believe the internet is an effective recruitment channel and almost half (46,81%) are using online recruitment as part of their overall recruitment strategy, a CareerJunction survey has revealed. This is an increase of 22,81% since 2003.
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/ 25 November 2005
‘Literary gent’ hits back Drew Forrest painfully exposes his colonial cultural cringe when he calls me an “Oxford-trained literary gent” (June 30). Then he shadow-boxes with his own “stripped” and “boiled down” rewrite of what I wrote, rather than arguing with what I actually wrote. Forrest’s “Mbeki” has “embraced privatisation”, but the real Mbeki has […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Money still lily-white The article “The new colour of money” (December 23) misleads the South African public by painting a glossy picture of black people and a bleak picture of whites. It wants us to believe that black people have finally arrived and that the future of white people in this country is as good […]