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/ 25 November 2005
”Kibaki out! Kibaki out!” was the cry on the streets of Kenya as thousands of people celebrated the defeat of a draft Constitution its opponents had branded a “recipe for dictatorship”. A mere three years ago, the same Kenyans, had massed to support Mwai Kibaki with the mantra of ”Kibaki tosha [forward]!”
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/ 25 November 2005
Brian Lara became only the second player to pass 11 000 Test runs as he produced his long-awaited first century of the series against Australia in the final cricket Test at Adelaide Oval on Friday. The 36-year-old West Indian batting great joined Australian world record holder Allan Border (11 174 runs) to single-handedly lead the Caribbean tourists to 194 for four at tea.
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/ 25 November 2005
”There is often a sneering quality to the coverage and analysis of black economic empowerment, which threatens to debase a necessary transfer of wealth. It can lock critics and proponents into racialised corners, making it difficult to sort the empowerment wheat from the enrichment chaff,” writes Ferial Haffajee, editor of the Mail & Guardian.
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/ 25 November 2005
How very satisfying to read the front page headline in last week’s ”Business” insert in this paper. It gave expression to a desire inscribed on the very sub-conscious of this nation. The headline to Lloyd Gedye’s splendid article was ”Knysna’s ‘up yours’ to Telkom”. There are few in this country who, seeing that headline, would be able to resist reading the story it introduced.
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/ 24 November 2005
”This is a newspaper that has been banned, has been closed down, has been sued. The Mail & Guardian bears the scars of a difficult childhood. The broad outlines of the history ought to be known to you. And if they are not known to you, you obviously have not been watching Hard Copy on SABC TV,” said Irwin Manoim, one of the M&G‘s founding editors, at the newspaper’s 20th anniversary celebrations on Thursday.
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/ 24 November 2005
British pop star Elton John will marry his long-time partner David Furnish in a small, private ceremony on December 21, the day civil partnerships between gay couples become legal in Britain. The couple’s parents will be the only witnesses at the ceremony, though it will be followed by a party later in the evening, John said in an interview with British gay lifestyle magazine Attitude.
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/ 24 November 2005
In going forward, the M&G must look backward, writes editor Ferial Haffajee.