Letters
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I adore Winnie Madikizela- Mandela — not just for her African beauty but because of her resilience in the face of the major hardships she suffered at the hands of the brutal, inhumane and oppressive apartheid regime. The scars are clearly visible.
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Media practitioners and commentators who were in the trade from the 1980s to date should not feign ignorance at Winnie Madikizela- Mandela’s comments, published in the London Evening Standard, that Nelson Mandela “let us down” and “he agreed to a bad deal for blacks”.
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To hell with selective lifestyle audits. I want the state to initiate a wealth reconciliation audit first on the minority who hold 90% of the country’s wealth, and address the poverty gap.
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For about 10 years during the 1970s and early 1980s I wrote on wine for numerous Jo’burg newspapers and magazines.
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The continuing saga between Pioneer Foods and other price colluders refers.
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Robert Nkuna (Icasa’s pay-TV stance, Letters, March 8), in his response to Anton Harber’s column (Watchdog is no champion of underdogs in pay-TV, March 3), is being selective about the role played by the regulator in allowing competition in the pay-TV industry.
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Opinion & Analysis
 THE 1913 Natives Land Act is considered by many people to be SA’s original political sin.
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 RECENTLY, two university vice-chancellors showed the kind of bold leadership they knew would make them unpopular with the government.
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IN THE early 2000s, SA was the epicentre of an important battle over the pricing of antiretroviral drugs.
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TALK about poetic justice. The South African Airways (SAA) operations manager, who was supposed to appear before Parliament this week, was bumped off an SAA flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town and could not make the meeting.
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I HOPE I never become one of those “former editors” who complain all the time about how poor journalism is “today” and, by implication, how good it was when they were around. I’m proud to be a hack.
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Minister needs an even hand in iron-ore dispute
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AT THE heart of the almost unprecedented row between ArcelorMittal SA (Amsa) and Kumba is what might be described as “the moral issue”.
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IN THE ArcelorMittal SA- Kumba spat, there are ancillary issues regarding the JSE. The first is why the company was suspended last week. The financial community does not appear to be exercised by this issue, but you do have to ask, on what basis should a company be suspended?
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PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma ought to be returning to SA after a triumphant, regal tour of the UK. But instead, his trip appears to have been a bit of a disaster, and he returns with his stature somewhat eroded to an intensified bout of squabbling between alliance members.
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