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/ 6 December 2002
Relations between Cosatu and the clique within the ANC that seems hell-bent on breaking up the tripartite alliance seems to have reached an all-time low, if the kindergarten level of insults being traded is anything to go by.
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/ 22 November 2002
Oom Schalk just showed Lemmer a story in the Bosveld Herald about the government wanting South Africans with dual nationalities to give up one of them. Magtig, this is just like the old days when Pieter Willem in his krokodilskoene wanted foreigners not to vote here.
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/ 8 November 2002
The seventh annual Southern African International Film and Television Market (Sithengi) will this year, for the first time, hold a children’s festival, writes Maria Kurian.
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/ 18 October 2002
One might think from the hullabaloo around the maize deal announced by the government last week that the problems of rising staple food prices have been solved at a stroke. This is very far from true — indeed some commentators see the announcement as little more than a public relations exercise.
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/ 20 September 2002
The Cabinet’s April 17 statement on HIV/Aids policy — widely hailed as a crucial change of heart — is looking increasingly threadbare. Was it, as some maintain, merely a tactical manoeuvre to deflect international condemnation in advance of the G8 meeting in Canada.
A Kenyan study has found that HIV-positive men with low CD4 counts are at a higher risk of reinfection with bilharzia.
The government’s websites are a source of constant amusement to the manne at the Dorsbult, and a rich source for material for this column. But sometimes the gems are buried. Take a tender announcement from the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology last week.
The boys at the bar could not help chuckling at former SABC news head Snuki ”Moyo” Zikalala’s article on the Mail & Guardian in the Sowetan this week. Moyo wrote the article, he assures us, ”in his personal capacity as a journalist”. This is a very flattering self-assessment.
While we wait for next month’s Constitutional Court decision on the defection law, the manne have been entertained by the increasing level of bitchiness between estranged KwaZulu-Natal partners the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress…
The late African National Congress stalwart, Oliver Tambo, once said: ”The nation that does not look after its youth has no future.” At the funeral of the late Peter Mokaba, ANC Youth League president Malusi Gigaba called for the youth of this country to boycott the Mail & Guardian for allegedly having written unfavourably about Mokaba (”Two faces of Mokaba”, June 14). Unfortunately, Gigaba did not say whether the story was true or false.
Being a king is a tough task and you can’t even quit. A quick glance through history shows there are some awful ways to lose your job — most often by losing your head. But in the olden days no one questioned what you wanted to do.
A policeman and three suspected robbers were killed in a shootout after a high speed chase north of Durban on Thursday. This brings the number of policemen killed since Saturday to at least four.
<b>REVIEW:</b> <i>Love Child</i> (University of Natal Press) is a joyful collection of short stories and poems by self-styled praise poet Gcina Mhlophe, writes Lynda Harvey.
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/ 28 February 2002
The UN International Narcotics Control Board says that the number of people injecting heroin in SA has risen by 40% over the past three years.
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/ 24 January 2002
The minister of health was sruprised by KZN Premier Lionel Mtshali’s announcement that ARV nevirapine would be administered as an emergency measure.
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/ 12 January 2002
Police raided the homes of several rightwingers on Friday in the wake of recent bombings blamed on the far right and threats of more violence.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is now widely expected to withdraw from the national cabinet in the next few weeks after being given an ultimatum from the African National Congress (ANC) to stick to its coalition agreement.
Nigerian media group <i>ThisDay</i> (Pty) Ltd, which is to launch a national daily newspaper in South Africa early next year, has purchased CNA Entertainment, a company consisting of 71 retail stores in the CNA chain.
The pending settlement of a land dispute case in northern KwaZulu-Natal could become an example for the rest of South Africa, which, like its neighbour Zimbabwe, is faced with a need to conduct land reform.
WITH relations strained between the IFP and the ANC, the IFP is considering holding a joint parliamentary caucus meeting with the DA as the parties explore new relations at a national level.
Five men were arrested after they kidnapped and robbed four taxi drivers in Mondeor, Johannesburg on Friday, police reported.
The latest hotel occupancy statistics confirm Tourism Minister Valli Moosa’s description of South Africa as a ”hot” tourist destination.
In recent by-elections around the country, the African National Congress (ANC) won six seats while the Democratic Alliance (DA) won three.
The search for the remains of up to five people who drowned after their vehicle was swept away by heavy flood waters near Amatikulu, was continuing, the KwaZulu-Natal road traffic inspectorate said on Sunday.
The African National Congress has lost a Constitutional Court bid to ensure the protection of five KwaZulu-Natal legislature members who defected to the party before legislation allowing national and provincial floor-crossing was declared constitutional.
The United Democratic Movement will on Wednesday attempt to persuade the Constitutional Court that its application against the defection legislation should be heard as a matter of urgency.
Four men were arrested over the weekend after a pastor and three children were stabbed to death in Newcastle on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
The number of South Africans carrying the HIV virus that causes Aids appeared to be stabilising, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi gave his support on Friday to a campaign promoting abstinence from sex, presiding over a ceremony where abstaining youngsters were rewarded for their self-discipline.
Over the last 10 days around 1 000 people, aged between three weeks and 95 years, have climbed — or been carried up — mountains across South Africa as part of a countrywide celebration of the International Year of the Mountain.
Retired military generals and top ANC figures recently reached agreement on a form of extended amnesty.
South Africans are generally becoming more positive about the overall democratic regime and more optimistic about where it will be in ten years time.