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/ 2 November 2004
South Africa’s online publishers pulled in about 3,5-million unique users or readers and about 106-million page impressions in the month of August. The first statistics are out and reveal some remarkable trends. Matthew Buckland crunches the numbers.
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/ 2 November 2004
This editorial was supposed to be about the "public sphere". The intention was to link a number of the debates raised in the October issue. But in the middle of September the Audit Bureau of Circulations put out "ABC Alert No. 9", their response to Allan Greenblo’s article ("Circulation Conspiracy?") in the August 2004 edition of <i>The Media</i>, so the plan for this editorial had to change.
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/ 2 November 2004
By way of introduction to the book <i>Learner-based teaching</i>, authors Campbell and Kryszewska explain that it was developed in response to teaching conditions in Poland in the early 1990s. Many language teachers complained about outdated textbooks, and their students were dissatisfied with repetitive course material.
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/ 2 November 2004
Northern Gauteng’s senior women hockey team has a secret weapon – the youngest provincial hockey player to date, but sixteen-year-old Griselda Andries says she is not intimidated by the fact that she is the youngest player on the provincial circuit.
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/ 2 November 2004
Media training in South Africa has been tasked with the job of turning out communicators who understand the country’s changing lifestyles. But are trainees equipped to reflect critically on social ills and developmental needs? There’s hardly a dilemma because the choice is easy, reckons Graeme Addison.
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/ 2 November 2004
"Bare-bones" banking has arrived —but it costs. The Mzansi project, involving South Africa’s Big Four banks, was launched this week with the aim of bringing South Africa’s low-income households in from the financial cold. But inspection of the bank charges suggests they may price poor clients out of the market.
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/ 2 November 2004
By all appearances, the property looks like any other in the affluent neighbourhood of Parktown West, Johannesburg. But once inside the reception area of the house, the multitude of pictures and photos packed on every wall suggests that this is no ordinary house.
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/ 2 November 2004
This week the world finds out how seriously the United States neocons want to play, with election fraud and the removal of democracy in the US, and using the Orwellian-like "war on terror" excuse with the CIA-created "al-Qaeda" construct, en route to war in Iran, Africa, South America and ultimately China. (There you have the next decade in world politics, en route to World War III, mapped out in one sentence.)
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/ 2 November 2004
Johny Lacambel, a local radio presenter, offers his two guests some soda before asking the tall dark male with an amputated limb to lead in prayers as the programme begins. The trice-weekly <i>Dwog Paco</i>, the local Acholi language for "come back home," is credited with touching many hearts and convincing a number of Ugandan rebels to surrender.
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/ 2 November 2004
Statistics, in and of themselves make for boring conversation and dull reading. Yet they leap to volatile, political life when used to make arguments about race and violence, sex and death — as the angry exchanges between President Thabo Mbeki, anti-rape activist Charlene Smith and the Democratic Alliance’s Ryan Coetzee demonstrate. These debates are important for the questions they raise, argues Lisa Vetten.