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The Democratic Alliance would continue to stand as an independent party even if the ruling African National Congress split, says leader Tony Leon. In his regular internet column on Friday, he said the DA would fight to ensure that any new government reversed the current government’s ”denialist approach to HIV/Aids”, among other things.
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/ 25 November 2005
Environmental experts on Friday warned the slick of cancer-causing benzene moving along China’s Songhua river could pose a long-term risk to human health, contaminate the food chain and damage the region’s fragile ecosystem. As the 80km-long highly toxic column moved into Harbin, capital of the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, analysts said dangers would remain for years.
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/ 25 November 2005
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In his regular internet column on Friday, ANC Today, President Thabo Mbeki said his statements dealing with the Jacob Zuma affair can ”by no stretch of imagination” be interpreted as expressing ”a hostile or malicious attitude” to the former deputy president.
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/ 25 November 2005
Too red to see green Thank you for a sober reaction to political statements by South Africa’s rulers undermining the use of environmental impact assessments (”Mbeki joins assault on green laws”, August 4). They should be reminded that the Constitution provides for ”an environment that is not harmful to … health and wellbeing”. To enforce […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Do as He would do After listening to the radio interview with Mail & Guardian editor Ferial Haffajee, I understand completely where she is coming from. However, to avert the kind of outrage that the printing of the cartoon has sparked, it would have been better to omit it. To do so would not have […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Enough of the crocodile tears I read with dismay Nomboniso Gasa’s open letter to Jacob Zuma (March 17), and cringed at her crocodile tears. I am not politically correct and shall nail my colours to the mast: I align myself with Zuma’s fight to be accorded respect and dignity, not least by the partisan character […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Kirby’s colonial project Robert Kirby writes that Shakespeare’s plays and poetry ”stand on their own, immune from any historical context” (June 9). Really? How was he able to achieve this feat? Surely any writing is influenced by, and rooted in, contemporary public discourse and the prevailing mores of its time. It stands to reason that […]
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/ 25 November 2005
China’s rise threatens SA Chinese Premier Wen Jia-Bao’s visit to seven African countries appears to have been more symbolic than pragmatic. Low-priced China-made products are dumped in every part of the world, including South Africa, resulting in the demise of local manufacturing and exacer-bating unemployment. China has been the country most targeted for anti-dumping investigations […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Just how low could she go? The headline of Khadija Magardie’s article on May 26, ”How low can you go?”, presumably refers to the waistlines of army-issued trousers for women soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). It is more fitting to relate it to the gutter journalism it represents. The venom and vitriol spewed […]
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/ 25 November 2005
PLAN bodies dishonoured The discovery of the bodies of PLAN fighters buried in a mass grave near the former South African Defence Force (SADF) base at Eenhana in Namibia gives me the opportunity to write about my own experience while serving on the Namibian/Angolan border. I was unwillingly conscripted into the SADF for two years […]