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/ 7 November 2003

African beauty makes waves

It was the biggest double-header Cape Town had seen in a while. There was the arrival of a famed yet hitherto unseen beauty. And there was what the organisers, only by modesty, were prevented from proclaiming as the biggest maritime event since the parting of the Red Sea. Not since Diana, Princess of Wales, visited the city has Cape Town been so spellbound.

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/ 7 November 2003

Poll pressure mounts

Political parties are becoming increasingly worried by estimates that as many as 9,5-million South Africans are not registered for the 2004 election. ”There’s a massive amount of work to be done,” African National Congress communications coordinator Steyn Speed told the Mail & Guardian. ”I don’t think we can go to an election with this number of unregistered voters.”

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/ 7 November 2003

Activist’s powerful memoirs

If we accept that at least part of the present tension in our society is one of "memory against forgetting", we must accept the challenge to wade through memories — including badly written memoirs and narratives that come across as superficial or just bland. Occasionally one comes across a book that breaks this mould, writes Anthony Egan.

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/ 7 November 2003

Wits ‘still too white’

Racism, sexism, lack of transparency and "exclusion organised around … whiteness" — these are the experiences of staff employed at the University of Witwatersrand. A survey of Wits staffers’ perceptions of change finds university still in the grip of the ‘old guard’.