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The monopoly is the message

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The structure -- not just the colour -- of South Africa's newspaper industry is where the real problem lies, writes Bruce Cohen CARL...

Restoring socialist morality after Stalin

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In this extract from his unfinished autobiography, Joe Slovo recalls the reaction in the SACP to news of Stalin's excesses WE HAD always...

Makgoba accused of racism

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SOME staff members of the African Languages Department have expressed outrage at the way Makgoba handled their former acting head, Robert Herbert, an...

Pirates ready to plunder Ivory Coast

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They've had a long, hard season and several key members of their squad are weary after representing the national team, but Orlando Pirates...

Weekend Special bites back

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Brenda Fassie, South Africa's bad-girl singer, in THE MARK GEVISSER PROFILE 'HOW can I make you smile?" I asked an enraged Brenda Fassie,...

Scales of SA inflation

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Simon Segal WITH South Africa's inflation rate, down to 6,3 percent in October, at levels last seen in the early 1970s, much is...

Perpetrators need help

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THE day Susan Sithole died, abuse activists, counsellors and government officials met in Cape Town at a national conference organised by the Department...

Homes lost in civil war

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Rehana Rossouw and Ann Eveleth THE civil war in KwaZulu-Natal has created a destitute class of people who have converted pavements in the...

Dutch funders take flak over blank cheques

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Evelyn Groenink DUTCH do-gooders have run into flak at home for handing out R20-million to South African political parties without any built-in checks...

Editorial Malan may be a gas

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EARLIER this week General Magnus Malan gave a briefing to the Foreign Correspondents Association, devoted to his forthcoming trial on murder charges. He...

Newly elected local governments face financial crunch

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Lynda Loxton LOCAL government is facing "an affordability crunch"that could have long-term consequences for the delivery of services by newly-elected local governments. Development...

Sharpeville convict demands a retrial

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SLOWLY DUMA SKHOSANA, convicted "Sharpeville Six" murderer, is breaking his hunger strike, but he remains resolute to force a retrial to prove his...

Harvey Keitel lights up

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CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale HARVEY KEITEL gets to smile warmly in Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's Smoke, and that's only one reason to see...

Editorial but burglars ain t

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JOHANNESBURG was adorned with newspaper placards on Sunday trumpeting the latest atrocity of the criminal classes: "The burglars that use gas." Those with...

Tenyearsago

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COSATU, the largest-ever federation of independent trade unions in South Africa, is to be launched in Durban tomorrow under the banner "One Federation,...

Bottlenecks may strangle Western Cape tourism

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Visitors to the Western Cape may be on the increase but is it equipped to cope with the rush? asks Lynda Loxton THE...

Populist politics with strings attached

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Politicians calling for the reimposition of the death penalty are more interested in buying votes than in curbing crime, argues Dennis Davis ONE...

Skilful Austrians get the ball rolling

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A game between Austria and South Africa team showed that being in a wheelchair doesn't limit the skill and excitement BASKETBALL:Julian Drew WHEN...

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