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/ 20 December 2003
1 Abbey Mzayiya 2 Simon Muzenda; Canaan Banana 3 Ari ben Menashe 4 George Bizos 5 “The Final Push” 6 Andrew Meldrum 7 Vanessa Brereton 8 London 9 Karl Edwards 10 Schabir; Yunis; Rieaz “Mo”; Shamien “Chippy”; and (not involved) Faizel 11 Zarina 12 Justitia Building, Bloemfontein 13 David Kelly; Hutton Inquiry 14 Universities of […]
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/ 20 December 2003
Like the World Summit on Sustainable Development and Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo’s budget speech of two years ago, Tiyiselani Manganyi seems a long forgotten memory. Masondo promised that by 2030 the lives of Jo’burg’s children would be dramatically different. Tiyiselani was to be a symbol of this brighter future.
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/ 20 December 2003
These are names you will be seeing a lot more of in the next decade. On their way up but yet to reach their peak, these people will emerge as key figures in our public life over the next 10 years — from politics to fashion, sport to the arts. Some already have achieved a lot; others are just beginning the upward curve. But all are symbols of South Africa’s future — the rise of fresh minds, and the potential to help fulfil our dreams of a vibrant, progressive country.
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/ 20 December 2003
For South Africans, one lesson there is that revolutions are not once-and-for-all-time eruptions: the ones that matter — that enable the enactment of fundamental human rights for all — need constant renewal, rethinking. Kader Asmal’s Revolutionary Express train departs on January 1, writes David Macfarlane.
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/ 20 December 2003
Zimbabwe’s state-controlled media has ”blood on its hands” through inciting violence against President Robert Mugabe’s critics, according to a report published in Zimbabwe this week.
Daily News unbanned
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/ 20 December 2003
Tony Blair dramatically announced last night that Libya has agreed to give up hitherto undisclosed weapons of mass destruction after nine months of clandestine negotiation between Colonel Muammar Gadaffi and diplomats from Britain and the United States.
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/ 20 December 2003
Millions of hobbit-lovers and elf enthusiasts are being cajoled to advance the frontiers of knowledge by joining a £40 000 study of why the Lord of the Rings is so popular.
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/ 20 December 2003
Videos recorded inside a New York jail show Arab and Asian detainees, who were picked up in a sweep of immigrants in the wake of the September 11 attacks, being slammed and bounced off the prison walls by guards, according to an official US government report.
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/ 20 December 2003
The dry, yellowing fields stretch out to the horizon, past shiny new silos, their polished tin gleaming in the noon sunshine. Beside freshly hoed fields stand new tractors and ploughs.
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/ 20 December 2003
The global campaign against smoking has served as a wake up call for Malawi, which has an economy that is heavily dependent on the tobacco industry. The poverty-stricken southern African country is now seeking substitutes for tobacco — as yet, without much success.