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Depict your smile and help campaign raise awareness

Editor April 8, 2010 South Africa

by Nadine Christians
Imagine not being able to smile. Thousands of children worldwide are unable to smile, speak properly and have been shunned because they suffer from cleft lips and cleft palates – the fourth most common birth defect in the world. However, the non-profit organisation Operation Smile South Africa has been rectifying this. Operation Smile [...]

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Human rights report card

Editor March 26, 2010 South Africa

Last year, on Human Rights Day, the Centre for Constitutional Rights issued its first Human Rights Report Card. We have decided to continue the process this year with a new Report Card that indicates where, in our opinion, we have been making progress with regard to human rights and where we have been regressing. [...]

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SHOUT for a safer South Africa

Editor March 19, 2010 South Africa

“If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness”. — Nelson Mandela, Nobel Prize Winner, freedom fighter, peacemaker and former President of South Africa.

South Africa… deemed one of the most beautiful countries in the [...]

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Tariff Increases

Editor March 18, 2010 Environment

The problem
On 24 Feb 2010, NERSA approved Eskom’s MYPD2 (Multi-Year Price Determination 2) with increases in Eskom’s nominal tariffs of 24.8% for the 2010/2011 year, 25.8% for the 2011/2012 year and 25.9% for the 2012/2013 year. The average electricity price will rise from a current R0.33/kwh to R0.415/kwh this year, then go up to [...]

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ConsAlert

Editor March 15, 2010 South Africa

Solidarity obo Mrs R M Barnard v South African Police Services.
Heard in the Labour Court of South Africa, this case has important bearing on the implementation of both the Employment Equity Act (the Act) and the Employment Equity Plan (the Plan) that the Act calls for. It also has vast implications for the many senior [...]

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AfriForum Youth launches “Stop Malema” campaign

Alana Bailey March 14, 2010 News & Politics

This weekend AfriForum Youth launched a comprehensive “Stop Malema” campaign. This campaign comprises various actions, including a website, protest march, petition, SMS line, court case and Facebook group. The campaign was launched in response to Malema’s recent “Shoot the Boer / farmer” statements. This has been undertaken in order to give the [...]

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Lance Armstrong initially denied entry into South Africa

Tarryn Pokroy Rietveld March 9, 2010 Visas & Immigration

“Armstrong’s rough ride into South Africa” was the IOL headline today and Lance was almost denied entry into South Africa last night.
The rationale for his initial refusal to entry was caused by the fact that he did not have sufficient blank pages in his passport.
In terms of Regulation 2(1)(e) of the Immigration Regulation promulgated under [...]

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President Zuma’s moral debate

Editor March 8, 2010 South Africa

We should welcome President Zuma’s call for a national dialogue on South Africa’s moral code. He is quite right that such a debate is particularly important in a multicultural country like ours – with substantial minorities coming from widely differing cultural and religious backgrounds.
We are too easily inclined to condemn any practice that deviates [...]

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The national question

Editor March 3, 2010 South Africa

At a meeting last month with opposition leaders President Zuma complained about the visible lack of white participation in celebrations to mark national events. The president wanted to know why there are so few whites in the crowds, waving flags and cheering, when he opens Parliament or addresses meetings to mark national days. [...]

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Why I love South Africa

Editor March 2, 2010 South Africa

I love her for the perfection of her days
The crisp Karoo morning
The Joburg winter noon
The late summer Cape Town sunset
The star-filled Free State night
I love her for her people
For our warm smiles
For our resilience
For our I-am-because-we-are
I love her because she delights my senses
Highveld thunderbolts
Jacarandas in bloom
Sunday braais
African sun
Icy sea
I love her raw power, her intensity, [...]

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