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/ 7 November 2003
The Landless People’s Movement still intended to march on the Presidency on Friday to start its ”No Land, No Vote” campaign although permission had been refused, a spokesperson said.
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/ 7 November 2003
Hundreds of students used burning tyres to barricade the entrance to the Technikon Northern Gauteng in Soshanguve on Friday to demand the release of four students who were arrested earlier in the day.
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/ 7 November 2003
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
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
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
The government of Nigeria has rushed health workers to Daramba, a village on the border with Niger, following an outbreak of whooping cough — one of the six main killer diseases for children.
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/ 7 November 2003
De Beers has announced a R16,8-million investment in its "Big Hole project" at the Northern Cape mining city of Kimberley, the provincial capital, to develop the facilities on the perimeter of the famous diamond mine, which closed operations in 1914, and to boost the city’s future tourism potential.
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/ 7 November 2003
Mining magnate Brett Kebble’s court action against former business partner Mzi Khumalo has been postponed at the request of Khumalo’s legal team, Kebble said in a statement on Friday.
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/ 7 November 2003
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’.
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/ 7 November 2003
Schabir Shaik gave much, but he was not the only one …