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/ 25 November 2005
Kirby’s nuclear ignorance Robert Kirby writes complete nonsense (”Alex in wonderland”, August 25) when he says Russia’s Chernobyl nuclear power station ”went out of control because of what Nersa [the National Electricity Regulator] recently diagnosed at Koeberg”. The primary reason for the accident at Chernobyl was a crazy reactor design that would never be allowed […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Take crime seriously! Sadly, Justine White’s experience of ill-treatment by the police is not isolated and Booysens is not the only police station where people who report crimes are treated shabbily (”The police must also respect the Constitution”, November 10). As a relative newcomer to South Africa, it saddens me and makes me angry. On […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Ideals have been betrayed Larger issues were at stake in the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) strike than salaries and service conditions. It exemplified the growing concern about the impact of neo-liberalism in institutions of higher learning, increased economic referencing in education and the demand that academics do more for less. It is unacceptable that staff […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Kirby’s colonial project Robert Kirby writes that Shakespeare’s plays and poetry ”stand on their own, immune from any historical context” (June 9). Really? How was he able to achieve this feat? Surely any writing is influenced by, and rooted in, contemporary public discourse and the prevailing mores of its time. It stands to reason that […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Lob from cuckoo land And now we have a lob from the far right of fundamentalist cuckoo land — Philip Cole (Letters, October 6) telling us that if Fred marries Steve today then tomorrow Fred may marry Molly the Cow. And God knows if this sort of thing carries on, we could have Fred marrying […]
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/ 25 November 2005
"If you love life, then it’s the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do," said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa’s first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.
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/ 25 November 2005
Come down, Peter Mokaba! Forgive me, commander Peter Mokaba, for not speaking to you before. We have been preoccupied with managing hypocrisy and mediocrity in the organisation you died for. Commander, the youth league of Anton Lembede is burning — particularly in the province of your birth, Limpopo — and we need fire extinguishers. The […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Campus racism insidious Auditors Deloitte have found that there is no racism at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s medical school (July 7), only “small incidents, which appear to be nothing more substantial than personal differences, or wrong perceptions, or misunderstandings …” Case closed, let’s get on with it! The problem here is one of perspective, because […]
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/ 25 November 2005
JZ abusing culture I am proud to be a Zulu woman, and think Zulu culture, like other South African cultures, should be celebrated. But I am sick and tired of Jacob Zuma hiding behind Zulu culture whenever he shoots himself in the foot. During his rape trial he claimed the victim had seduced him and […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Kasrils a man of honour I am not a supporter of any political party, but I believe your readers should know what kind of man Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils is and will continue to be. I met Kasrils when he was deputy minister of defence. As part of his VIP detail, I was his personal […]
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/ 25 November 2005
All faiths used violence Pope Benedict, in trying to argue that religion should not be spread by force, failed to say that the Catholic Church, indeed Christianity, has been guilty of this. Strife between Catholicism and Protestantism, and the use of force to maintain orthodoxies by the rack, burning and warfare, are an unedifying history. […]
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/ 25 November 2005
DA is getting stronger In her analysis of the 2006 local election results (March 3), Vicki Robinson reached the premature conclusion that support for the Democratic Alliance had dropped and that the DA had once again failed to make inroads in the townships. A proper post-election analysis shows that the opposite is true: in 2006, […]
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/ 24 November 2005
<i>Weekly Mail</i> recruits were poverty stricken, persecuted and despised, writes Anton Harber, but those who stayed afloat are now shaping the news.
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/ 24 November 2005
Read more on the names at the helm of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
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/ 24 November 2005
Call it Zuluwood. In a bid to expand audiences for south Indian movies, the Tamil film Priyasakhi is being dubbed into Zulu, a language spoken by nearly nine million people in South Africa. Priyasakhi is a story of love, separation and reunion between a rich girl and a middle-class boy.
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/ 23 November 2005
Eight of South Africa’s nine provinces are being been severely affected by drought, the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Wednesday. Hardest hit are northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, said the department’s senior manager of drought and risk management, Ikalafeng Kgakgatsi.
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/ 23 November 2005
A stone struck KwaZulu-Natal legislature speaker Willies Mchunu on the head on Tuesday while he was on a fact-finding mission to the dissolved Abaqulusi municipality in Vryheid, the Natal Mercury website reported. Hundreds of Inkatha Freedom Party supporters stormed the hall where a community meeting was to be held.
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/ 22 November 2005
More than a million South Africans registered to vote in next year’s municipal elections during the Independent Electoral Commission’s final registration drive over the weekend. This brings to 21-million the number of South Africans now on the voters’ roll. The country has a population of 43-million to 44-million.
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/ 21 November 2005
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If the rape claims against Jacob Zuma turn out to be ”serious allegations” and go to court, the party will take action, African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday at a media briefing on the party’s national executive committee meeting at the past weekend.
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/ 21 November 2005
Limpopo-based Dynamos and KwaZulu-Natal-based Golden Arrows played to a goalless draw in their Premier Soccer League encounter at the Giyani Stadium on Sunday. Both teams set off like a house on fire, entertaining a small crowd of soccer lovers.
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/ 21 November 2005
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The woman accusing African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma of rape has vowed not to drop the charges, media reports said on Monday. According to weekend reports, police have asked Zuma for blood samples to determine whether the former deputy president could be conclusively linked to the alleged rape.
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/ 19 November 2005
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A rape case is reportedly being investigated against former deputy president Jacob Zuma, and a daily newspaper has published the case number. According to the newspaper the complainant is a 31-year-old HIV-positive Aids activist who regarded Zuma as a father figure.
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/ 18 November 2005
A thousand Khutsong residents protested outside the office of Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa on Friday against plans to incorporate the Merafong municipal into the North West province from Gauteng. Stressing their dissatisfaction over the proposed re-demarcation, the group handed a memorandum over to officials.
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/ 18 November 2005
In an astonishingly candid move, the South African Police Service has admitted to spending R66,5-million a year on hiring private security firms to guard its stations, police buildings and properties. These include such vulnerable enterprises as the police dog training school and forensic science laboratories.
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/ 18 November 2005
SA must shun patronage The article “Beware of a shallow culture” (November 4) by Joel Netshitenzhe initiates a vital debate. Where exactly are black South African culture, and South Africa, heading? Netshitenzhe is concerned about a loss of direction in South Africa. He stresses the need to continually hold an ethical vision of a future […]
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/ 16 November 2005
Lamontville Golden Arrows collected maximum points when they beat Ajax Cape Town 2-0 in a Castle Premiership encounter played at King Zwelithini Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Also, Moroka Swallows beat Jomo Cosmos 2-0 in a fast and entertaining Premier Soccer League game played at the Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto.
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/ 16 November 2005
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is not commenting on its efforts to seize R30-million of the assets of Schabir Shaik now that he has been granted leave to appeal his corruption conviction and sentence. Meanwhile, an application for the return of items seized during raids on premises linked to Jacob Zuma is likely to be heard in court next month.
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/ 16 November 2005
Health-services provider Network Healthcare Holdings (Netcare) on Wednesday reported a 34,4% rise in fully diluted headline earnings per share to 58,6 cents per share for the year ended September 30 2005, from 43,6 cents a year ago. The group declared a final capital distribution of 15 cents per share.
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/ 15 November 2005
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma has reiterated his denial of rape allegations or any conduct that might compromise an investigation. This follows a weekend report in the Sunday Times that Zuma allegedly raped a family friend at his Forest Town, Johannesburg, home on November 2.
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/ 15 November 2005
Two South Africans were killed and two injured in a suicide bombing in Iraq on Monday, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Tuesday. ”The department regrettably confirms the death of two South Africans and the injury of two others yesterday [Monday] in Baghdad,” spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said.
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/ 14 November 2005
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”What rape?” asked the headline of the Sowetan on Monday, in a report on allegations that former deputy president Jacob Zuma sexually assaulted a family friend staying over at his house. ”What can be inferred from all this is that it points to a witch-hunt,” Zuma’s lawyer, Michael Hulley, told the Herald.
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/ 13 November 2005
Matthew Harris and Eugene Moleon helped the Lions to reach a lead of 236 on the third day of their Supersport Series match against the Cape Cobras on Saturday. Also, the Free State Eagles took an overall lead against the Warriors and the Titans set about building a huge second-innings score against the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins.