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ANC has failed comrade in arms for 25 long years
The 25-year struggle of Mrs Jeanette Mulobela continues.
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Free our universities from Nzimande’s blade
The Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande, now seems set to upset that carefully balanced apple-cart. He ought to listen more carefully to the CHE, and be slow to discard such advice.
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The night owl catches the field mouse
I would like to protest. The world is clearly biased towards morning people. I realised this again with biting clarity as I reached to silence my alarm for the fourth time this morning. I have one requirement when buying a cellphone, and one requirement only: it must have a snooze function.
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On the move: South Africa and migration
Last week, statistics from Census2011 indicated the extent to which South Africa continued to be shaped by migration. This is a country still on the move. Khadija Patel spoke to Wits University’s Professor Loren Landau about the impact of migration on the economy and development.
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Today's loan shark feeding frenzy, tomorrow's revolution
Hlomela Dlamini* has been working for the Makana Municipality in Grahamstown for some 15 years. He gets paid about R4,800** gross a month, but only nets little more than half of that. Each month he has the usual government deductions and there’s money that must be paid to his trade union, SAMWU. He also has repayments taken off his salary for Old Mutual, Sanlam and three funeral policies. The deductions off his municipal package total R2,270.00**, which means that after 15 years of working for government, his net pay is R2,530.00**.
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