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/ 14 June 2007

Shilowa says strike has gone on too long

The former head of the Congress of South African Trade Unions told striking public-sector workers on Wednesday that negotiations should take place at the table and not on the streets. Mbhazima Shilowa’s comments were a sign of deepening differences between the ruling African National Congress and its allies.

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/ 14 June 2007

China overtaking US for fast internet access

Almost 300-million people worldwide are now accessing the internet using fast broadband connections, fuelling the growth of social networking services such as <a href="http://www.myspace.com" target="_blank" class="standardtext"><i>MySpace</i></a> and generating thousands of hours of video through websites such as <a href="http://www.youtube.com" target="_blank" class="standardtext"><i>YouTube</i></a>.

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/ 14 June 2007

What does Youth Day mean to you?

"June 16 is about remembering the past, because it is also the future. It represents a turning point for South Africa." Suntosh Pillay, Dean Horwitz and Cindy Kotzé took to the corridors of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the University of Cape Town and Mandela Metropolitan University and asked students what June 16 meant to them.

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/ 14 June 2007

A looming ‘wave of child mortality’

HIV is the driving force behind South Africa’s high child death rates. Unless there is a concerted effort to put child survival strategies in place, the country faces an "unstoppable wave of child mortality", paediatricians have warned. The knock-on effects for the future of South Africa’s youth, and therefore the economy, could be dire.

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/ 14 June 2007

Is it the end of AA as we know it?

Since April this year, the African National Congress Youth League and trade union Solidarity have been discussing whether the youth should be exempt from affirmative action. Here, two youth leaders — Solidarity’s Dirk Hermann and the league’s Zizi Kodwa — debate whether affirmative action should apply to those born after 1994.

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/ 14 June 2007

Canvassing the arty types

"The majority of South Africans, I think, live a very mimicked lifestyle." Kwanele Sosibo speaks to artistic young people at a Jo’burg inner-city art gallery about the possibilities that being South African holds, and wonders whether the youth have arrived at a common identity 14 years after the advent of democracy.

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/ 14 June 2007

Student politics is dead

Most university students today are concerned about their individual economic freedom. Graduates no longer root for the preservation of a national culture founded on the principles of ubuntu and those enshrined in the Freedom Charter. Does "The people shall share" ring a bell?

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/ 14 June 2007

No, ‘they’ are not taking our jobs …

"Say <i>amakwerrre-kwerrre</i>," I was told by a domestic worker I interviewed. As if by rolling my tongue, her correction of my pronunciation would enable me to express the requisite hatred and anger towards foreigners. This is the unthinking reality that confronts thousands of refugees who flee to South Africa in the hope of attaining a better life for themselves.

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/ 14 June 2007

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