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/ 12 October 2001
Thebe Mabanga on the players who are bringing arts and culture to the fore The nominees for this year’s Arts & Culture Trust Award for Arts Journalist of the Year are crusaders who have displayed enormous chutzpah to speak their minds and champion the cause of a sector that is besieged by troubles ranging from […]
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/ 12 October 2001
A year from now South Africa will host Rio+10, the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Johannesburg World Summit Company CEO Moss Mashishi looks at an event that he believes will make the environment everyone’s business Until recently South African media coverage of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD 2002)has been largely about scale. And […]
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/ 12 October 2001
Jacqui Brown, CEO of the summit’s Civil Society Secretariat, is fired up to make Africa’s poverty the critical issue on the agenda. Glenda Daniels speaks to her It’s countdown time. With just 39 weeks to go, bubbly Jacqui Brown has bloodshot eyes from lack of sleep. She has the whole world’s civil society agenda to […]
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/ 12 October 2001
Paris | Monday – -1630 GMT: several heavy explosions are reported in Kabul and power is cut off. – -1645 GMT: the White House announces that a new phase in its war against terrorism has begun. – – 1705 GMT: US President George W. Bush announces that air strikes involving Britain have been launched in […]
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/ 12 October 2001
Barry Streek The controversial Medical Research Council (MRC)report on the extent of HIV/Aids is to be released to the public next Tuesday and the MRC is sticking to its figures and methodology despite reservations expressed by an interdepartmental task team and Statistics SA. The MRC estimated that between five and seven million South Africans would […]
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/ 12 October 2001
"If I succumb to cancer and go to the next world, the first thing I will do there is look for the ANC branch.
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/ 12 October 2001
Ngwako Modjadji Although e.tv news has not been broadcasting for long, it has proved that age is not important by winning this year’s Arts & Culture Media of the Year Award in support of the arts. E.tv news beat other hopefuls such as Artslink, D’Arts Magazine and SAfm for the award. Roger Lucey of e.tv […]
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/ 12 October 2001
Suzan Chala Thousands of African journalists have passed through the offices of the Freedom Forum in Rosebank, Johannesburg, since it opened its offices in 1997. Some came to learn more about their profession from international experts, while others came to learn from each other. The Freedom Forum’s Africa Centre director, Jerrilyn Eddings, says she has […]
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/ 12 October 2001
Thebe Mabanga and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni One of the freebies supplied to the delegates of the Black Management Forum’s (BMF) 25th anniversary conference this week was a huge sweet dispenser crammed with jelly babies, liquorice and lozenges. At the end of each speech by high-profile black academics and lieutenants of industry with aspirations to […]
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/ 12 October 2001
Is the West waging another war by proxy? Comment Tabish Khair Fifteen bombers, 25 fighter planes and 50 missiles. That is all it took to launch the first phase of what United States President George W Bush has promised will be a long war on terrorism. Evidently, the first phase is not an expensive one. […]