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/ 29 September 2005
Roger Kebble, father of slain mining magnate Brett Kebble, is not planning to step into his son’s shoes. ”I’m just a fairly simple miner. I will stick to my knitting. I don’t think I’m going to step into those shoes,” Kebble told a press conference at his son’s home in Inanda, Johannesburg, on Thursday.
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/ 29 September 2005
The deaths of five people during a night of clashes on the Spanish-Moroccan border on Thursday once again threw into focus the growing pressure exerted by illegal immigration on the gateways into the European Union across the Mediterranean Sea.
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/ 29 September 2005
Nigeria’s Anglican archbishop said on Thursday that Nigerian churches might cut ties with the Church of England if it did not revise its stance on homosexuality, which accepts gay priests in same-sex partnerships. ”As of now, we have not yet reached the point of schism, but there’s a broken relationship,” Archbishop Peter Akinola told reporters in the capital, Abuja.
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/ 29 September 2005
The proposed statue of Nelson Mandela for London’s Trafalgar Square has become a bone of contention, writes Hugh Muir.
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/ 29 September 2005
Unlike other works cashing in on The Da Vinci Code‘s success, Dan Burstein’s collection of essays seeks to understand the complexities of gnosticism and Christian origins, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 29 September 2005
A new book looks at the ife and time of DJ Khabzela, who preached safe sex, but lost his life to Aids, writes Sabata-Mpho Mokae.
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/ 29 September 2005
Being proud, flag-waving South Africans doesn’t mean that we have to be happy-clappy rainbowists, deliberately blind to anything that shakes our confidence in our country, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 29 September 2005
Minster of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is happy with the South African National Blood Service’s (SANBS) new race-free risk rating model, she said on Thursday. ”I am glad the SANBS has been able to implement the new risk model for blood donations that excludes race within timelines that we set,” she told reporters in Johannesburg.
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/ 29 September 2005
Mark Scott-Crossley, who threw a man to lions to die, was not a bad person, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Thursday. ”He [Scott-Crossley] has got good attributes,” his counsel Johann Engelbrecht SC told Justice George Maluleke.
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/ 29 September 2005
The book <i>SOUTH AFRICA’S 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities</i> deserves wide attention, both as a contribution to the study of a largely overlooked period of our history or the very high quality of its scholarship, writes Anthony Egan.