Mmanaledi Mataboge
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/ 30 January 2004

From young lions to young yawners

In just 10 years arguably one of the most highly politicised generations of youth has given way to one in which apathy is unprecedented and disenchantment with politics is acute. On Thursday the Independent Electoral Commission revealed that just below half the young people eligible to register to vote had done so during the final registration drive last weekend.

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/ 14 January 2004

Yfm DJ, HIV activist dies

Yfm DJ Fana "Khabzela" Khaba died of an Aids-related disease on Wednesday at the Johannesburg General hospital. On May 16 last year, Khabzela had — in a move that had surprised the nation — announced his HIV-status on air during a mid-morning radio show.

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/ 24 October 2003

‘Men can get breast cancer too’

As Timothy Mlenje knows to his cost, Breast Cancer Awareness Month concerns men as well as women. Mlenje (57), of Berea in Johannesburg, had no idea that breast cancer could affect men, but today the scars on the left-hand side of his chest bear testimony to the existence of male breast cancer.

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/ 23 October 2003

All changed, changed utterly: Your quick guide to tertiary transformation

Students entering tertiary study next year will walk into a higher education landscape vastly different from the one South Africa has known for decades. From January, familiar institutional names will cease to exist. Where before you might have enrolled at Unisa or the University of Natal or the University of Durban-Westville, you’ll now be registering at … Well, no one knows just yet.

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/ 11 August 2000

Shortage of staying power

Primedia and AME prove that corporate giants and the South African film industry are not perfect casting Andrew Worsdale Joseph Losey (director of The Go- Between, The Servant and many other fine movies) once said, “I am frequently told that my films don’t make money. Since I have averaged one film a year for 30 […]