The truth is out. If you are white and find the yoke of affirmative action too heavy, don’t pack for Perth. Go to the United States, the land of the free and home of the brave. It has already worked wonders for Charlize Theron, who last week joined the likes of Afronaut Mark Shuttleworth by being ”the first African” to score big on some world stage or other.
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/ 25 February 2004
In the same week that the Swiss went to the polling booths to decide, among other things, what to do about dangerous criminals preying on their children, the people of Katlehong also made their views on the matter known. The East Rand community decided there and then to castrate a man who was allegedly caught raping a five-year-old child.
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/ 6 February 2004
The late black consciousness leader Steve Biko once said "no average black man can ever at any moment be absolutely sure that he is not breaking a law." This year we celebrate 10 years since South Africa officially became a non-racial country, so I would like to believe that Biko’s observations have spread to people of other hues, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 5 February 2004
”In the name of the African renaissance, trust, but not too much,” announces Irvin Khoza’s cellphone voicemail message. The message aptly describes the Orlando Pirates and Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairperson’s involvement in the game after his return from self-imposed football exile to take the helm of Pirates in 1989.
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/ 30 January 2004
A friend called me excitedly. "Guess who I am friends with?" she asked. I wondered about the six billion people on Earth — who could she be referring to? Finally she put an end to my misery: "Mzekezeke". Mzekezeke’s identity is known, but that does not make him less of an enigma, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 23 January 2004
"How far can one go in criticising a judge? Our law, while saying that ‘justice is not a cloistered virtue’ and that ‘it is right and proper that [judges] should be publicly accountable’, does place limits on the criticism of judicial officers and the administration of justice for which they are responsible."
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/ 16 January 2004
The African National Congress’s choice of KwaZulu-Natal to sell its message of peace, hope for the future and a society that truly cares could not have been delivered to a more understanding audience.
A race too close to call
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/ 12 January 2004
One Gauteng newspaper put it best when its billboards read ”New Year in Hellbrow”. It was not a spelling mistake but a clever pun referring to the lawlessness that happens in the Johannesburg inner-city suburb of Hillbrow.
The Castle Premier Soccer League has decided to celebrate the new year with a fixture paying tribute to the old. Orlando Pirates take on rivals Moroka Swallows at the Johannesburg stadium in the country’s oldest and most continuously played fixture. It has been more than 55 years since these two sides first met.
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/ 19 December 2003
On Thursday the curtain fell on the spectacle that played itself out in the Justitia Building theatre, bringing to a close a production that has been running since October. The drama, precipitated by the allegations that Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid spy and abused his office, had all the hallmarks of an award-winning production.