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/ 25 November 2005
Take crime seriously! Sadly, Justine White’s experience of ill-treatment by the police is not isolated and Booysens is not the only police station where people who report crimes are treated shabbily (”The police must also respect the Constitution”, November 10). As a relative newcomer to South Africa, it saddens me and makes me angry. On […]
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/ 25 November 2005
It’s the economy, stupid Editor Ferial Haffajee makes some bold statements and assertions in her article ”Meaning of the Selebi saga” (December 21). She should have been more cautious and thoughtful; I found her arguments loosely constructed. High-personality crimes usually give rise to such outcries. While the government believes one murder is a murder too […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Beware of group think Jillian Carmen’s letter (May 5) left me in two minds. I admire her, and accept Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s sentiments about the need for repentance. But there remains a nagging feeling that this leaves a lot of the truth unsaid, and that there can be unfairness in what amounts to group thinking […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Fed up with Mpofu I am fed up with the SABC CEO Dali Mpofu’s spin-doctoring of the SABC’s cheap political propaganda. He has failed to deal with legitimate media criticism that the corporation is failing to cover news impartially and accurately. This year has seen the controversy over the booing of Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Brazen US hypocrisy Saddam Hussein’s trial and execution were a brazen display of United States hypocrisy. The trial was procedurally flawed, and excerpts from the proceedings were censored. The prosecution did not establish direct responsibility for the crimes he was accused of. The chief judge was removed mid-trial because the US-backed Iraqi government accused him […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Motsepe can buy success I found Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya’s article (”Motsepe is bad for soccer”, October 13) damaging and ignorant. Before Patrice Motsepe entered the game, South Africa’s professional players were earning as little as R2 000. Today the standard of local football has improved and players are earning better salaries. Yes, Motsepe has changed coaches […]
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/ 25 November 2005
The myths of Kasrils Ronnie Kasrils’s ”Myths of Zionism” (January 27) contains objectionable sentiments. But even more disconcerting are Mail & Guardian posters plastered across South Africa proudly proclaiming them. The wording of the poster re-inforces a basic principle of anti-Semitism — that Jews are deceitful. In June 24 last year, the M&G printed an […]
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/ 25 November 2005
loveLife on target Your report (”Documents contradict loveLife”, January 6) appears to be based on selective release of internal documents by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria secretariat. It is not clear whether they also made public the findings of two independent panels of experts appointed to appraise the facts concerning loveLife’s […]
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/ 25 November 2005
How to tire Zuma The Art of Seduction, by JZ: If she is wearing a dress; she is asking for it. If she crosses her legs; she is asking for it. If she visits your house; she is asking for it. When a woman says ”no”; she is asking for it. Never visit the beach […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Is Mbeki race-obsessed? Is President Thabo Mbeki obsessed with racism, as whites claim? I’m beginning to suspect he is. When whites first made the claim, I was among the first to come to his defence. As blacks, we couldn’t afford to let our former oppressors publicly insult our leader — not after what they’d put […]