Kalay Vani Nair
Guest Author
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/ 17 April 2007

The catch-up game

<Media24’s wonder child <i>Weg</i>, the country’s first travel glossy in Afrikaans, is certainly putting pressure on the competition. But old hand <i>Getaway</i> remains the advertisers’ favourite – for now. Kalay Vani-Nair reports.

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/ 20 January 2005

German toy boy needs lobola in the zoo

German toy boy Makoko the Gorilla appealed on Thursday to Jo’burgers to dig deep into their pockets to assist him with paying lobola for Max the Gorilla’s widow, Lisa. Makoko (19) moved from Munster Zoo in Germany last November to be with the 33-year-old Lisa, who has been single since the death of the crime-busting Max last May.

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/ 19 January 2005

Prisons union plans march in Pretoria

Trade unions are gearing up for a march in Pretoria on Thursday to protest staff shortages in prisons. Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union president Zizamele Cebekhulu said the Department of Correctional Services has thus far failed to address the issues of prisoner overcrowding and staff shortages.

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/ 17 January 2005

Let the MDC meet, says ANC

If Zimbabwe’s elections are to be declared free and fair, the opposition Movement for Democratic should be allowed to hold public meetings, African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday. He was addressing the media after the ANC’s national executive committee meeting at the weekend.

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/ 19 September 2004

Hamba kahle, Beyers Naude

Thousands of mourners, of all races and creeds, packed the Aasvoëlkop Dutch Reformed Church in Northcliff on Saturday to pay their final respects to Afrikaans anti-apartheid activist Beyers Naude in a moving ceremony. ”Oom Bey” — once rejected by his own people for rejecting his church’s justification of apartheid — died on September 7 at the age of 89. President Thabo Mbeki said it was because of Naude that black and white South Africans could walk together.