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/ 20 November 2006

We’re here, we’re queer

<i>Pride: Protest and Celebration</i> is a new book, edited by Shaun de Waal and Anthony Manion, documenting the history of Johannesburg’s lesbian and gay Pride march over its 16-year history. Drawing on the Gay and Lesbian Archives, it uses pictures and personal testimony to trace Pride’s evolution.

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/ 20 November 2006

What are people afraid of?

<i>The Vagina Monologues</i> continues to cause a stir each time the controversial play goes on stage, and the Zambian performances are no different. The very mention of the word vagina still shocks, and even some media are reluctant to publish this word, a biological term found in the dictionary. What is it about the word vagina that makes people so uneasy?

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/ 20 November 2006

Water for all (who can afford it)

Nearly two million children a year die for want of clean water and proper sanitation while the world’s poor often pay more for their water than people in Britain or the United States, according to a major new report. The United Nations Development Programme, in its annual Human Development Report, argues that 1,1-billion people do not have safe water and 2,6-billion suffer from inadequate sewerage.

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/ 20 November 2006

Meet SA’s fifth-richest man

Not many people can afford to slap down nearly R6-billion, even if it’s for a stake in South Africa’s biggest company. Larry Yung Chi Kun can. But then, he is China’s third-richest individual, and presumably had some cash to spare. China Vision Resources, Yung’s investment company, bought 1,13% of Anglo American from E Oppenheimer & Sons, the Oppenheimers’ family company.