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Nelson Mandela – SA’s 2010 envoy |
17.07.2008-"The world cup will help unify people, if there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people together it is soccer."
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Challenges posed by high food prices |
04.07.2008-By Finance Minister Trevor Manuel
While food prices have been stable or have fallen in relation to our incomes for much of the past thirty years, the past two years have indicated clearly that the era of cheap food is over. Rising food prices place a severe burden on the poor and government must intervene to support the needy in facing higher food prices. However, higher food prices also provide an opportunity to profit from producing more food for our people.
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Home Affairs Deputy Minister Malusi Gigaba on Youth Day |
12.06.2008
On Monday June 16 2008, it shall be exactly 32 years since the 1976 Uprising. This day, it is agreed by all our people, was more than just an event, but was a heroic feat that turned the historical course of events in our country and ushered in a new era of struggle. As a result of that Uprising, the eighties were to be a different period and the vulnerability of the regime was exposed and its inevitable defeat ceased to be inconceivable.
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Xenophobia has no place in South Africa |
29.05.2008
Xenophobia has no place in a free and democratic South Africa. When xenophobic attacks - or hate crimes - occur we cannot claim to be a nation in dialogue. In this, the second part of our series on racism, Minister in the Office of the President, Dr ESSOP PAHAD tackles issues around racism and xenophobia.
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Shameful actions blemish South Africa |
27.05.2008
PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI in a strongly worded message to the nation on Africa Day called the attacks on foreigners "callous" and an "absolute disgrace" and cause for South Africans to bow our heads in shame. Continuing our innovative Bua Feature series on racism we pick up on the presidential address to the nation around xenophobia.
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Understanding Racism |
15.05.2008
The King is dead, long live the King!
This is the untenable situation we find ourselves in, with the legal dismantling of apartheid but with its all-pervasive tentacles strangling our society today.
Essop Pahad, Minister in the Office of the Presidency, analyses in this, the first in a three-part series.
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