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Afro-realism

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Aug 2002

One might think from the triumphalism of South Africa's media that peace came this week to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Let us be honest with ourselves: this is the first step in the proverbial journey of a thousand miles.

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An assurance we can believe, please

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Jul 2002

Well, the grubby crazy truth is almost out. Back in 1998 President Thabo Mbeki gave South Africans a categorical assurance. It dealt with Virodene, a loony anti-Aids remedy with no credibility among scientists, which was already known to be based on a toxic industrial solvent...

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Reform the farmer

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Jun 2002

On the face of it, the chanting of "Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!" at Peter Mokaba's funeral last weekend -- and its indulgence by African National Congress leaders -- ran directly counter to the government's professed reconciliation policy.

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Still Saul, not Paul

Article Staff Reporter - 9 May 2002

Those sceptical about the government's alleged Damascene conversion on HIV/Aids, and who fear dissident backsliding, will be worried by the nevirapine appeal in the Constitutional Court...

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Even rats enjoy a flutter

Article Staff Reporter - 11 Jan 2002

She said to me quite plainly: 'If I lose I pay you a million dollars. If you lose you agree to have two large...

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US has a critical role

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

WITH the United States gearing up for war against Iraq and the growing risk that the spiralling Israeli-Palestinian conflict may spill over into the whole region, the Middle East stands at a crossroads.

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A heavy responsibility

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

LET there be no doubt: South Africa's response to last weekend's election in Zimbabwe and its outcome will have a defining influence on the life chances of many millions of people in our region.

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Arms and the MPs

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

The most enduring legacy of South Africa's R50-billion arms deal may turn out to be the terrible injury it has inflicted on our most important democratic institution - Parliament

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Failing Zimbabwe

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

IF deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad really believes there will be credible elections in Zimbabwe, why is he also begging the developed world not to back off the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) if things go wrong?

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Enough paranoia

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

Last week's <i>Mail & Guardian</i> report on the meeting between the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the African National Congress, at which unionists were accused of scheming to undermine President Thabo Mbeki, went down like a concrete balloon

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High shock threshold

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

It has often been said that South Africa has an unusually high scandal threshold. It takes a mass murder, a rape of extreme brutality, or a body count of hundreds on the roads for anyone to pay attention

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Editorial: Morkelgate

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

The media fest over the relationship between the Democratic Alliance's Western Cape leader, Gerald Morkel, and millionaire fugitive from German justice Jurgen Harksen partly reflects the life and death battle between the DA and the New National Party in the Western Cape.

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Long drive to smart cards

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Nov 2001

The following letter, from an enraged Multichoice customer in Mtubatuba, was sent to me via the Mail & Guardian in September. In a display...

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Cometh the hour

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Nov 2001

As talk show hosts go there aren't many who come anywhere near Michael Parkinson. With his easy geniality and almost complete lack of intrusive...

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Children who need no chains

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Nov 2001

Over the past two weekends BBC World has been broadcasting a two-part documentary called The Slave Children, inspired by the news, last April, of...

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