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/ 12 October 2002
In a marked shift of emphasis, the South African Human Rights Commission is bracing itself to tackle the government on poverty and service provision during its new seven-year term. Under former chairperson Barney Pityana the HRC’s main focus was on race and gender.
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/ 12 October 2002
The body of a Mpumalanga farm labourer has been kept on ice for three weeks while the Department of Land Affairs defends its contentious legislation on burial rights in the Land Claims Court.
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/ 12 October 2002
The struggle for the ancestral land of the Basarwa Khoisan in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana has resurfaced with a desperate cry for help from a resident. The unnamed woman gave a letter to an Italian tourist, who made it public. The tourist did not want to be identified.
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/ 12 October 2002
The ANC’s Policy Education Unit charges that the left is waging a counter-revolutionary campaign against the government
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/ 12 October 2002
Jeremy Cronin argues that the ANC should be leading the anti-neo-liberal coalition.
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/ 11 October 2002
The Field Band Foundation walked away with the award for Best Practice Project Award, writes Darryl Accone.
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/ 11 October 2002
The winner of this year’s Arts & Culture Trust award for Journalist of the Year, Themba ka Mathe, is a soft-spoken bohemian with a passion for poetry and developmental issues, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 11 October 2002
The posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award given to NoFinish Dywili raises issues about preserving traditional culture, says Andrew Tracey.
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/ 11 October 2002
I read with shock the sentiments of my colleague, Mathew Blatchford of the University of Fort Hare, in his letter in the Mail & Guardian (October 4) criticising President Thabo Mbeki for his attack on the ultra-left. It is misleading for people who have elevated themselves to the rank of intellectual to conclude that African National Congress and government policies are a source of disillusionment for the masses.
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/ 11 October 2002
In another of his increasingly astonishing revelations, President Thabo Mbeki recently announced that he had become aware of a new political party, in diametric opposition to the ANC.