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/ 30 September 2005
The first edition of government magazine Vuk’uzenzele was unveiled today at an event at the Constitutional Court, Johannesburg. Published by the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), one million copies of the title will be freely distributed to readers in the LSM 1 to 6 categories.
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/ 30 September 2005
Union officials from the clothing, textile and footwear sector are blaming the government for the massive increase in Chinese imports since 2003, and calling for protective measures like those implemented by the European Union and the United States.
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/ 30 September 2005
"In her ‘Chameleon tales’ Vicki Robinson quotes a Zulu myth to create and substantiate another myth — her own. Robinson is essentially right in that she has produced a tale outlining 30 years of the Inkatha Freedom Party coming to an end. Needless to say, it is a classic mix of factual inconsistencies, half-truths and outright lies," writes Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party.
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/ 30 September 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), the country’s communications regulator, may face stiff challenges to its independence if the Icasa Amendment Bill is promulgated in its current form. This is according to a range of stakeholders in the sector.
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/ 30 September 2005
"After taking a little while to figure out how the retractable steel roof works, I got into the new Opel Tigra TwinTop 1,8-litre Sport and was constantly surprised by how it handled itself. The exterior styling is very appealing, though the rear lights are unusually large and really do stand out in a crowd," writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 30 September 2005
Tony Blair’s continuing suzerainty of Downing Street fills decent people with a mixture of fear, disdain and an almost uncontrollable need to belly-laugh. Watching Blair drum out his hypo-crisies and half-truths, all his bogus compassion and credible pomposity, you wonder where he gets it all.
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/ 30 September 2005
For more than 150 years, Americans have sent animals to war; legions of strong, furry brutes, bright-eyed, dumb and eternally loyal. But of course the Marines haven’t done <i>all</i> the fighting, and every so often it has been necessary to enlist the instincts and talents of beasts with sensitivities more refined than those of the human animal.
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/ 30 September 2005
It may be that the enduring memory about Solomon ”Stix” Morewa will be when, as the president of the South African Football Association (Safa), he was told to quit or be fired by the government-appointed Pickard commission into irregularities in the game. That would be, however, only one of the chapters in a biography of a man who did more good than harm.
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/ 30 September 2005
There is now near-universal agreement that the Western occupation of Iraq has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster; first for the people of Iraq, second for the soldiers sent by scoundrel politicians to die in a foreign land. The grammar of deceit utilised by George W Bush, Tony Blair and sundry neocon/neolib apologists to justify the war has lost all credibility.
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/ 30 September 2005
India has always had an embarrassment of riches for the traveller: marble Moghul tombs, grand palaces, palm-fringed beaches and Himalayan treks. Now the country has a new tourist attraction on offer: the village. To anyone who has spent time in India’s villages, paying to sun oneself while cattle loll and cowpats dry under the sky might seem a little far fetched.