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/ 7 November 2002
The South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) is up in arms after women workers at Shoprite Checkers in the Eastern Cape were allegedly forced to submit to a strip search.
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/ 7 November 2002
Diehard rightwingers and fringe religious groups aside, no one denies that our education system needs radical and comprehensive measures to repair the ravages that apartheid over decades and colonialism over centuries inflicted on the majority of South Africans.
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/ 7 November 2002
Small things please little minds they say. Well my favourite moment this political year (so far) was when Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad came to the end of his briefing to the media at the outset of the parliamentary session.
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/ 7 November 2002
They grew up in a time of political turmoil, but were too young to be participants. They spoke their first words in Afrikaans, while most of their countrymen were demanding that Afrikaans be scrapped in schools. They are the new generation of young Afrikaners.
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/ 7 November 2002
Andrew Phillips, owner of The Ranch brothel in Johannesburg, sued George Fredrick Hardaker, a senior special investigator with the Scorpions and member of the asset forfeiture unit, for R500 000 in the Johannesburg High Court this week.
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/ 7 November 2002
Divisions over the candidacy of Eastern Cape Premier Makhenkesi Stofile and Mluleki George for the African National Congress’s provincial chairpersonship is believed to have led to the suspension of the OR Tambo region’s conference last weekend.
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/ 7 November 2002
The government has formulated its comprehensive new curriculum for the crucial last three years of schooling without reliable data — and in some cases any data at all, educationists and teacher unions say.
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/ 7 November 2002
‘What are you wearing?” It’s one thing if you send this SMS to a girlfriend before a party. Quite another if you accidentally send it to the wrong number. Your boss’s, for example. And what if he replied? SMS is dangerous stuff.
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/ 7 November 2002
Old Mad Bad up north has been relatively quiet of late but His Nasty Nuttiness is back with a bang. In a country in economic crisis, with inflation running at 150% and thousands of the citizens starving, what would a good despot do?
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/ 7 November 2002
General Francisco Franco’s Spanish dictatorship stole children from the families of his left-wing opponents and gave them to his supporters or sent them to be brought up in convents or monasteries, according to a book published this week.