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/ 10 October 2003
South Africa’s gold mining companies have to explain more clearly and convincingly why the stronger rand obliges them to retrench workers, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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/ 10 October 2003
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) was ”shocked and disgusted” by a call by the Vatican to HIV sufferers around the globe not to use condoms. Father Joe Mdhlela, an Anglican priest representing the SACC, which represents all South Africa’s mainstream churches, including the Roman Catholic church, said Catholicism was failing to take the realities of the world into consideration.
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/ 10 October 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu said on Friday he would not give reports related to alleged irregularities in the provincial health department to Democratic Alliance MPL Clive Hatch.
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/ 10 October 2003
The Craig David phenomenon is a funny one. On the one hand, he’s a shining beacon of authenticity in a sea of schlock pop created by middle-aged men. Yet, on the other hand, when he launched his solo career, with Fill Me In and Seven Days (both UK number ones), it was pretty cheesy. Zoe Williams contemplates Craig.
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/ 10 October 2003
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Hollywood Homicide is intensely self-regarding, as the title hints. It is as much of an incestuous Los Angeles movie as, say, Steven Soderbergh’s essay on the movie industry, Full Frontal, or David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, though it, being mainstream big-budget ”product”, of course tries to hide that fact, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 10 October 2003
Six Palestinians were killed in a massive Israeli raid in southern Gaza, hospital sources said on Friday, as question marks still hung over the future of Palestinian premier Ahmed Qorei amid reports he wants to quit.
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/ 10 October 2003
Big business has both a moral and legal duty to pay reparations for apartheid, advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza said on Friday. Ntsebeza was speaking at the Black Management Forum’s annual conference in Cape Town, while in the United States a Washington court prepares to hear argument next month against calls to dismiss
a South African apartheid litigation case.
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/ 10 October 2003
"I dreamed there was a helicopter flying, flying, and it went straight for my head. A bomb fell. The people around me — all of them — died. And the police came and they told me to take the corpses and stack them". Poppy Buthelezi had this recurring nightmare after she was shot in the back on June 16 1976, the first day of the Soweto uprising.
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/ 10 October 2003
Some of our Justice System’s most watershed and exciting decisions have ended up as mere legal jargon that Joe Average could not be bothered with, unless he found himself in a sticky situation. That is why this column will start off by celebrating decisions that the taxi passenger, the law professor and the quadriplegic should all be able to relate to, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo.
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/ 10 October 2003
Kebble has set the bar. Whether he’ll jump over it or spend time behind it remains to be seen. But it is time for other individuals to step forward as patrons of the arts, comments Mike van Graan following the Brett Kebble Arts Awards.