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/ 27 October 2006
You have to hand it to South African football fans. When it comes to fickleness, they are up there with the best. Which is a good thing for the sport, considering that what happens on the pitch is down there with the worst. Fans have accused the South African Football Association of sidelining them by staging the annual Nelson Mandela tournament in London.
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/ 27 October 2006
The Jali commission of inquiry has slammed the inordinate power it says is exercised by the Cosatu prisons affiliate Popcru in the administration of prisons. The full executive summary of the findings of former judge Thabani Jali was released by the correctional services department this week after a storm of protest over the sanitised version handed to Parliament recently.
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/ 23 October 2006
From someone recently elected president, I expected some airs. But Jimmy Manyi, the new Black Management Forum, president lacks them. I am taken aback that he, instead of a personal assistant, comes to the reception to welcome us and usher us to his office. He says something self-effacing. I say something else he finds funny. He bursts into a booming laughter.
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/ 20 October 2006
Vacant: Sometimes impossible job with often impossible boss at under R1-million a year. This is an apt description of the post of director general (DG), the mandarins who sit atop national departments. The overriding theme of our first directors general report card is that it is a hard job to do. In the blushes of freedom, straight after 1994, these were coveted posts at the apex of a negotiated revolution.
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/ 17 October 2006
Christianity’s favourite rejoinder to gay marriages is usually based on the book of Leviticus, which regulates how believers should lead their lives. In particular the passage that says ”you shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination”. It seems conclusive enough.
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/ 22 September 2006
The Constitutional Court had missed an opportunity to demonstrate that it wants the public to have greater awareness of justice at work by refusing the SABC the right to broadcast the Schabir Shaik appeal case, the broadcaster’s attorney said on Thursday.
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/ 4 September 2006
Film and Publications Board CE Shokie Bopape-Dlomo says the ”media frenzy” over proposed amendments to the Film and Publications Act took her by surprise. Reports that newspapers would have to forward articles for pre-publication classification were based on a misunderstanding, she said in an interview this week.
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/ 1 September 2006
Branford Marsalis, McCoy Mrubata, Greg Georgiades and Paul Hanmer may not have planned things this way. But as sometimes happens in the Republic of Bohemia, they find themselves firmly the focus of debate at dinner tables, where conversation revolves around the question: What is jazz? Marsalis took Sunday Times journalist Bongani Madondo to task for […]
The Joy of Jazz festival line-up enforces the notion that the genre is a state of mind, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
Somehow, when nobody was looking, it became a shameful thing to be "nice". Benevolence became a dirty word. Philanthropy and selflessness have become so despised that Mother Teresa probably did herself a favour by dying when she did. OtherÂwise she too could have been a victim of the New Age mentality that demands that we lampoon those who dare to show that they care.