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/ 26 July 2002

Transformation is a grey area

Last Thursday the Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour named a ministerial task force charged with, among other things, looking into the United Cricket Board’s claims that the quota system was no longer necessary when picking teams at national and senior interprovincial levels. Less than 48 hours later, in Wellington, the South African rugby […]

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/ 26 July 2002

Will real ANC stand up?

In his now famous interview with Irish radical Helena Sheehan, senior communist and African National Congress member Jeremy Cronin remarks that "the worst elements" in the ANC were "unleashed" on the left after last year’s anti-privatisation strike. That this is happening again confirms his complaint.

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/ 26 July 2002

Thabo: No basis for strike

President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday he could see no reason for the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s planned anti-privatisation strike, and that the ANC would be talking to Cosatu about the proposed action. Cosatu has announced a national protest strike for October.

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/ 26 July 2002

What has the state got to hide?

Initiatives over access to information are set to place the government on the rack — in the courts and politically. The tussle over the monitoring and disclosure of arms exports continues when amendments to the National Conventional Arms Control Bill are debated by Parliament’s defence committee.