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/ 26 September 2003
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has done it again, and this time it is journalist Sam Sole who is bringing home the bacon. Hours after the <i>M&G</i> reported in last Friday’s edition that Wisani wa ka Ngobeni had won the news category of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards 2003.
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/ 19 September 2003
A R30-million social housing project — a joint initiative of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Building Construction and Allied Workers Union — is frozen as stakeholders hurl accusations of managerial incompetence and financiers withhold funding.
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/ 12 September 2003
The National Land Committee (NLC) is still in one piece following a vote last week to decide whether its national office should be dissolved, but it is riven by ideological battles. In a show of solidarity with opponents who claim that the NLC has ”become less rooted in community experience”, three affiliates have left its ranks.
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/ 9 September 2003
A small, low-profile university campus is set to become a test case for one of the country’s most complex tertiary education mergers. The East London campus of Rhodes University is the price Rhodes– an institution that for nearly a century has enshrined English liberal values — will pay to retain its name and base in Grahamstown. In January, the University of Fort Hare will absorb the East London campus.
The Mail & Guardian continues its award-winning ways. Last week the paper won a top-ranking award in the Frewin/ McCall/Mervis competition for newspaper design and production.
Landmark legal action has pinpointed serious abuses of the legislative power provincial education departments wield over schools.
Two powerful interest groups at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) say they are determined that vice-chancellor Cooper should be ousted. But the groups are also at war with each other in the run-up to the UDW’s merger with the University of Natal.
About 1 800 children have been removed from the Masiphumelele school — formerly known as People’s Power secondary — in Khayelitsha, and the Western Cape Department of Education has closed the school.
Prominent activist Zakes Hlatshwayo has been axed as director of the National Land Committee (NLC). His dismissal follows an 11-month investigation that stems from various allegations brought against him after the WSSD last year.
Local songbirds and international divas are billed to perform at Nelson Mandela’s 85th birthday bash in Sandton on Saturday.