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/ 1 June 2001

Rural women to fight for their right to land

Glenda Daniels The Commission for Gender Equality has put the land restitution programme at the top of its agenda for the coming gender summit to be held in August. The commission wants to sensitise land reform policy about gender issues, and to devise strategies to ensure land access and security of tenure for rural women […]

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/ 1 June 2001

Out of America or Africa?

Greg Mills ‘We have almost 35-million and one citizens of African descent. Last year the total US-African trade approached $30-billion, and America is Africa’s largest single market. The United States is the leading foreign investor in Africa. More than 30000 Africans are studying in the US today. Our pasts, our presents and our futures are […]

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/ 1 June 2001

New law angers property owners

Roshila Pillay Estate agencies are up in arms about the new Municipal Services Act which makes property owners responsible for all service charges arrears instead of their tenants. Previously owners were liable only for rates payments and tenants for water and electricity. “I think it puts a huge burden on property owners. I can’t see […]

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/ 1 June 2001

Micro-lending companies’ halcyon days are over

Alec Hogg boardroom talk The brave face South Africa’s micro-lenders put on to last year’s changes in legislation affecting them has started to crack. The naked reality was apparent in financial results released during the past fortnight by three listed micro-lenders Abil, Unifer and Thuthukani which showed that what was once a licence to print […]

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/ 1 June 2001

Long-time Companion

Shirley Kossick The Oxford Companion to English Literature (6th edition) edited by Margaret Drabble Ever since Sir Paul Harvey’s first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1932, its place as the standard literary reference work for both students and the general reader has been established. With its extensive revisions, updating and more […]

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/ 1 June 2001

League season drags on

Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer The 2000/2001 season has been one of the longest on record, with many controversial incidents, displays of great soccer and the tragedy of the Ellis Park stampede that left 43 people dead. The championship race is over but the Premier Soccer League (PSL) season is not. There are two games still outstanding […]

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/ 1 June 2001

Kids shown SA horror crash videos

Police are using video footage of gory traffic accidents to persuade young South Africans to be more responsible Paul Kirk School pupils and business people in Durban are being shown shocking video footage of traffic accidents in a bid to make them more responsible drivers and it seems to be working. Top traffic policeman Principal […]

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/ 1 June 2001

SA should not compromise its own laws

Andrew Burrow and Carla Raffinetti On Monday, May 28 2001, in a damning judgement, the Constitutional Court declared that the South African government’s handing over of suspected bomber Khalfan Khamis Mohamed to the FBI was unlawful. The judgement came as a blow to the South African government, which was found to have violated both the […]