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/ 25 November 2005
Heed your subjects’ cries! Paul Harris, you are my banker. Invest wisely: R20-million would help hire and train more than 20 000 more policemen and women. You cannot stay on the sidelines and expect the government to provide all the time. Be ingenious. Come up with plans in tandem with government. Do not seek personal […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Come down, Peter Mokaba! Forgive me, commander Peter Mokaba, for not speaking to you before. We have been preoccupied with managing hypocrisy and mediocrity in the organisation you died for. Commander, the youth league of Anton Lembede is burning — particularly in the province of your birth, Limpopo — and we need fire extinguishers. The […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Approximately two-thirds (68,97%) of top South African companies believe the internet is an effective recruitment channel and almost half (46,81%) are using online recruitment as part of their overall recruitment strategy, a CareerJunction survey has revealed. This is an increase of 22,81% since 2003.
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/ 25 November 2005
Give Phumzile respect Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s trip, which was duly approved and authorised, is one of the prices we must pay to ensure that she is safe, and can continue to contribute significantly to South Africa’s development. She is the country’s second citizen — let’s accord her the respect she deserves. It is mischievous […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Don’t let it happen! The 16 days focus on gender violence and World Aids Day prompted me to submit this prayer, formulated at an HIV/Aids workshop. — Reverend Renate Cochrane, Hout Bay Thembisa’s Prayer O God I am kneeling before you and scream without a voice You are the only one who can see my […]
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/ 25 November 2005
JZ abusing culture I am proud to be a Zulu woman, and think Zulu culture, like other South African cultures, should be celebrated. But I am sick and tired of Jacob Zuma hiding behind Zulu culture whenever he shoots himself in the foot. During his rape trial he claimed the victim had seduced him and […]
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/ 25 November 2005
In defence of butterfly eggs Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu’s comments about housing delivery being “held hostage by butterfly eggs” (“Ministries aim to trash green laws”, March 17) demonstrates her tenuous grasp of the basic laws of the universe. She faces two insurmountable problems: The “growth” she and others seek is a long-term physical impossibility. […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Libel? It happened! The South African Zionist Federation angrily slates as “libellous” Khadija Magardie’s reference to Israeli soldiers roughing up Palestinian workers at checkpoints and shooting little schoolgirls in the head, then coming down [from] the guard tower to “confirm the kill” (“How low can you go?” May 26). The latter incident happened, and was […]
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/ 25 November 2005
b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a film, incessantly displaying a preoccupation with its own storytelling structure and cheekily blowing the lid off other movies’ tropes and wiles, writes Peter Bradshaw.
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/ 25 November 2005
Nowadays, being on a board — particularly of a publicly funded cultural institution — appears to be just another means for some to keep up, or catch up, with the Khumalos, writes Mike van Graan.