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/ 2 November 2004
Northern Gauteng’s senior women hockey team has a secret weapon – the youngest provincial hockey player to date, but sixteen-year-old Griselda Andries says she is not intimidated by the fact that she is the youngest player on the provincial circuit.
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/ 2 November 2004
Media training in South Africa has been tasked with the job of turning out communicators who understand the country’s changing lifestyles. But are trainees equipped to reflect critically on social ills and developmental needs? There’s hardly a dilemma because the choice is easy, reckons Graeme Addison.
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/ 2 November 2004
"Bare-bones" banking has arrived —but it costs. The Mzansi project, involving South Africa’s Big Four banks, was launched this week with the aim of bringing South Africa’s low-income households in from the financial cold. But inspection of the bank charges suggests they may price poor clients out of the market.
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/ 2 November 2004
By all appearances, the property looks like any other in the affluent neighbourhood of Parktown West, Johannesburg. But once inside the reception area of the house, the multitude of pictures and photos packed on every wall suggests that this is no ordinary house.
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/ 2 November 2004
This week the world finds out how seriously the United States neocons want to play, with election fraud and the removal of democracy in the US, and using the Orwellian-like "war on terror" excuse with the CIA-created "al-Qaeda" construct, en route to war in Iran, Africa, South America and ultimately China. (There you have the next decade in world politics, en route to World War III, mapped out in one sentence.)
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/ 2 November 2004
Johny Lacambel, a local radio presenter, offers his two guests some soda before asking the tall dark male with an amputated limb to lead in prayers as the programme begins. The trice-weekly <i>Dwog Paco</i>, the local Acholi language for "come back home," is credited with touching many hearts and convincing a number of Ugandan rebels to surrender.
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/ 2 November 2004
Statistics, in and of themselves make for boring conversation and dull reading. Yet they leap to volatile, political life when used to make arguments about race and violence, sex and death — as the angry exchanges between President Thabo Mbeki, anti-rape activist Charlene Smith and the Democratic Alliance’s Ryan Coetzee demonstrate. These debates are important for the questions they raise, argues Lisa Vetten.
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/ 2 November 2004
The South African Police Service (SAPS) code of ethics assures the public: "We will, at all times, perform our duties to the best of our abilities. Our conduct and appearance will be proof of our commitment to service excellence." Police stations have been renamed "service centres" — apparently in an attempt to provide a more humane, friendly service to the public. But has anything at the SAPS stations changed apart from the name?
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/ 2 November 2004
When the announcement came that Kenyan assistant environment minister Wangari Maathai had won the Nobel Peace Prize, I was in far off lands. At a party the following day, quite a number of folk who had had their fair share of wine were staggering up to where I was seated, pointing at me, and shouting: ”Wangari Maathai”. With that, they would stagger off. People didn’t need to say more to make their point.
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/ 2 November 2004
The All Blacks’ reputation as the hard men of world rugby may be tested by the admission of midfielder Ma’a Nonu that he wears eye make-up during matches. Nonu told a television interviewer on Tuesday that he recently started wearing dark eyeliner in major games.