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/ 5 May 2005

History alive

Julia Grey spoke to learners who unearthed history in their own backyard Forced removals: The implementation of the apartheid principle of ”separate development”, in accordance with legislation such as the Group Areas Act (1950). Communities of different races were forceably relocated to areas designated for people classified as being of the same race. This is […]

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/ 5 May 2005

Your country needs you

Students of today must become the educators of tomorrow if the teaching profession is to thrive again, writes Edwin Naidu Thousands of vacancies! Hard-working individuals, with a friendly personality and a passion for teaching, urgently required. Excellent working hours and generous leave benefits, plus the opportunity to work with and shape the intellectuals of tomorrow. […]

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/ 5 May 2005

On the mild side

Umtata’s minuscule airport isn’t exactly a gateway to paradise, but the topography that surrounds it — interrupted only twice a day by the arrival of a plane from Johannesburg — is a signal that you are about to enter another world, where time has a different meaning and life can be unencumbered by the burdens of daily life. And life is to be savoured at a new spa that’s opened on the Wild Coast.

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/ 5 May 2005

Time for Blair to step down

Tony Blair has verbal gifts. One of them is understatement. There had been ”a certain wear and tear” in his position as prime minister, he told John Humphrys on Wednesday. Wear and tear? Public anger and mistrust about him, focused on Iraq, has been devastating to his election campaign. The question is not whether he gives way to Gordon Brown, but when.

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/ 5 May 2005

For Cameroon’s pygmies, no forest is impenetrable enough

With no telephone connection to the outside world, and a single access road that is little more than a forest trail, the village of Lomie might as well be situated at the other side of the Earth as far as many Cameroonians are concerned. For the Baka pygmies, however, the position of the settlement is more ambiguous: too accessible for loggers, but too remote for the benefits of modern life to make themselves felt.