President Thabo Mbeki and other members of the African National Congress leadership — including Jacob Zuma — were gathering in Cape Town on Sunday for the launch of the party’s local government election campaign. The launch coincides with the 94th anniversary of the ANC’s founding on January 8 1912.
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/ 14 December 2005
Zimbabwean immigration authorities on Wednesday handed back a passport seized from <i>Mail & Guardian</i> owner and publisher Trevor Ncube six days ago under a new measure to punish government critics. "It appears I am winning. My passport is now in the hands of my lawyers," Ncube said.
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/ 14 December 2005
Trevor Ncube, owner and publisher of the Mail & Guardian, is effectively under country arrest in Zimbabwe after his passport was confiscated upon his arrival in Bulawayo last week, said the board of M&G Media, which publishes the M&G, on Tuesday. It is a ”sad day for Africa”, said chairperson of the board Professor William Makgoba.
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/ 24 November 2005
”This is a newspaper that has been banned, has been closed down, has been sued. The Mail & Guardian bears the scars of a difficult childhood. The broad outlines of the history ought to be known to you. And if they are not known to you, you obviously have not been watching Hard Copy on SABC TV,” said Irwin Manoim, one of the M&G‘s founding editors, at the newspaper’s 20th anniversary celebrations on Thursday.
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/ 24 October 2005
Afrikaans singer Janita Claassen died of a long illness on Monday morning, news reports said. The popular singer had been battling cancer that affected her lungs and throat. Radio reports said she was 58 when she died. She was recently honoured at a concert in Centurion, Pretoria.
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/ 19 October 2005
CD OF THE WEEK: Arno Carstens’s new album, The Hello Goodbye Boys, is doubtlessly a well-crafted sequel to Another Universe, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 29 September 2005
Theories and speculation on why and how mining magnate Brett Kebble was killed on Tuesday this week abounded in South African media on Thursday. Newspapers probed Kebble’s diamond interests in Angola and Lesotho, assassination theories and his tax affairs, while police said why they think he was killed in a botched hijacking.
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/ 23 September 2005
After a hiatus of four years, Nineties pop-rock favourites Collective Soul return with a new album. Guitarist Dean Roland spoke to Riaan Wolmarans.
Following statements on Wednesday by PetroSA, the state oil and gas company, that it will "have nothing to do" with Imvume Management in future and that Imvume has been ordered to pay back monies owed to it, the Democratic Alliance said in a statement that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) must now investigate Imvume.
The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> is South Africa’s biggest standalone online newspaper, according to internet readership figures for June, released by the Online Publishers Association and ratings company Nielsen//Netratings this week. In June this year, the <i>M&G Online</i> attracted a record 298 819 unique users.