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/ 6 December 2010
The <em>M&G</em>’s <strong>Faranaaz Parker</strong> looks back at the news events that sparked robust debate around the water-cooler in 2010.
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/ 3 December 2010
The case of an accused serial rapist has been postponed until next year to allow police more time to conclude their investigations.
Members of the public, including members of the Terre’Blanche family, will be able to view the testimony of the 15-year old accused of the murder of Eugene Terre’blanche.
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/ 2 December 2010
Pay-as-you-go healthcare could provide a possible cost saving for the man on the street.
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/ 2 December 2010
The good news, you can now build your house out of hemp. The bad news, you can’t smoke it.
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/ 25 November 2010
Almost 80% of men in Gauteng admit to perpetrating some form of violence against women, a study revealed by the MRC and Gender Links revealed.
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/ 25 November 2010
The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five quirky things you may have missed over the last week.
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/ 23 November 2010
Efforts to curb the Aids pandemic are beginning to pay off and the world is beginning to see a reversal in the spread of the syndrome.
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/ 18 November 2010
Legal experts are surprised that the Jules High School girl’s in camera testimony that the videoed sex was consensual, was leaked to the press.
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/ 17 November 2010
From Crocs making a comeback to the home entertainment centre of the future, Faranaaz rounds up her weekly five items of quirky news.
Facebook, which has more than double the active users of Gmail, is taking Google’s email giant on at its own game.
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/ 12 November 2010
Microsoft SA launched Xbox Live and Kinect with lots of promises but there are still a few ghosts in the machine.
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/ 12 November 2010
The Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers has recommended a 7% salary increase for state servants.
Violent crime is deeply ingrained in the social fabric of the country and cannot simply be solved through the criminal justice system.
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/ 6 November 2010
The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five odd things you may have missed this week.
A new search feature unveiled by Google makes it possible to use voice commands to search the web in South African English, Afrikaans or Zulu.
Professional cycling team <i>Mail & Guardian</i> EMG has had its shares of ups and downs.
The ANCYL may be serious in warning those creating fake Twitter accounts of Julius Malema, but it seems to be the only one taking it seriously.
South Africans had a brush with the astronomical on Monday when a large rainbow-coloured halo became visible around the sun.
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/ 31 October 2010
The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five odd things you may have missed this week.
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/ 29 October 2010
An orthopaedic surgeon answers whether photo-journalist Joao Silva will be able to continue his career, following his brush with death.
Capetonians flocked to the streets on Wednesday to support the Right2Know campaign in a march to Parliament in protest over the proposed Protection
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/ 26 October 2010
5FM shock jock Gareth Cliff’s meeting with the president’s spin doctor Zizi Kodwa on Monday afternoon was a bit of an anticlimax.
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/ 26 October 2010
Woolworths wasn’t the first company to feel the wrath of the online community in South Africa, and it certainly won’t be the last.
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/ 24 October 2010
The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five interesting things happening in the world while you weren’t looking.
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/ 20 October 2010
There has been growing speculation about the reasons why five senior editorial staff at the <i>New Age</i> newspaper quit their jobs on Tuesday.
If the march to commemorate Black Wednesday was anything to go by, South Africans are still in the dark about the Protection of Information Bill.
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/ 19 October 2010
Hundreds of people participated in a march through Johannesburg on Tuesday to commemorate Media Freedom Day.
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/ 16 October 2010
From HIV-infected porn actors to McDonald’s meals that never seem to rot, <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> wraps up the week.
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/ 15 October 2010
Hand washing. It seems so innocuous. After you use the toilet, before you eat. We all learnt to do it as little children, right?
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/ 14 October 2010
This week, Statistics South Africa kicked off the countdown to Census 2011, which will take place on October 9 and 10 next year.
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/ 14 October 2010
The census questionnaire for the 2011 South African census has already been drawn up and is currently being beta tested.