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/ 4 February 2005
The student representative council (SRC) of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) on Friday condemned what it said are financial aid policies aimed at excluding poorer students. The SRC demands the immediate registration ”of all academically deserving students who need financial aid”.
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/ 12 January 2005
Nelson Mandela, supported by his wife, Graca, attended his son Makgatho’s Mandela’s memorial service at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Makgatho (54), Mandela’s only surviving son, died of HIV/Aids on Thursday last week. In his sermon, Reverend Mvume Dandala, said ”that the first step to victory against Aids is not only to know one’s adversaries but to name one’s adversary”.
In a thick Australian accent, Dave Shaw’s first words to me on Thursday evening were: ”How you doin’, mate?” He reminded me somewhat of Captain Haddock from the Tintin comics. He would be diving to a depth of 270m to attempt to recover the body of Deon Dreyer who drowned at Boesmansgat in December 1994. He never returned.
Diver’s body to be raised from the deep
A team of divers, police and paramedics has descended on the small town of Daniëlskuil in the Northern Cape to recover a body. Located 30km from Daniëlskuil is Boesmansgat — the world’s third-deepest freshwater cave. In 1994, while diving in the cave with his father, Deon Dreyer, then 20, blacked out and sank to the bottom.
Eugene Terre’Blanche has been advised not to pursue legal action against prison officials who incorrectly arrested him for violating his parole conditions, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Terre’Blanche, who is on parole after serving three of a five year sentence for the attempted murder of security guard Paul Motshabi, was arrested on Sunday for going to the Pretoria High Court to get permission to travel out of his magisterial district.
The South African Olympic team left for Athens on Tuesday night. Speaking at a briefing at Johannesburg International airport, the team’s chef de mission, Hajera Kajee, said: ”Years of preparation, determination and hard work will culminate in a spectacular show of speed, strength and agility.