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Sarah Duguid

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Sarah Duguid

Staking their claim

After the new post-apartheid Constitution was adopted in 1997, restrictions were swept aside and mines reported queues of up to 500 women vying for the chance to work…

Landless people call government to account

”We, the landless people of South Africa, declare our needs for our government and the world to know. We are the people who have borne the brunt of apartheid, of forced removals…

‘The government is running scared’

A series of broken promises and undemocratic practices by the government has added weight to the Landless People’s Movement (LPM), which is now seeking international support —…

Governments are ‘solely to blame’

The world is in a ”race against the clock” to avert the looming famine in Southern Africa, says Jacques Diouf, chief of the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.

SA’s necessary evil

A year ago in Stockholm an audience of government representatives and environmental groups applauded enthusiastically as Kjell Larsson, the Swedish Environment Minister,…

Was it a racist murder?

A white man is accused of killing a black man late one Saturday night as he walked home with a friend, and the people of Cullinan, a small mining town outside Pretoria, are…

Ministers dump Madiba

NELSON Mandela was again a lone voice this week as he threw his weight behind the fight for a tuberculosis-free Africa

Landmark adoption ruling anticipated

Gay activists anticipate a Constitutional Court judgement soon, giving same-sex couples the legal right to jointly adopt children – which would be a landmark in the country’s gay…

Beau evicted after baring all

BEAU Brummell, the self-appointed South African king of nudity, is experiencing the stirrings of rebellion from some of his less gracious subjects.