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Whose language should SA speak?

We need common words on rights so conversations won’t be in vain, writes Judith February.

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Helping boys cross over to manhood

Communities have role to play in caring for initiates to avoid deaths, writes Jongisilo Pokwana ka Menziwa.

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SA Indians need not apologise

The Gupta saga has highlighted the way Indians and minority groups feel about their place in SA, says Senzo Mchunu.

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Malik Bendjelloul with the cellphone he used to shoot some of the scenes for his award-winning documentary. Picture: Masi Losi

Film-maker’s sweet success
April 24 2013 at 15:05

The Oscar award-winning director behind Searching for Sugarman encourages young local film-makers to dream.

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The DAs use of Helen Suzman and Nelson Mandela on a pamphlet is patronising and insulting, says the writer.

For now, Mandela belongs to ANC
April 24 2013 at 12:09

The DA’s blatant pandering to the black electorate in such a patronising fashion is insulting to the voters, writes Khaya Dlanga.

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In this 2009 picture, photographer Emilio Morenatti takes pictures as he is carried on a stretcher at University of Maryland Medical Center's R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. Photo: Enric Marti

Hope for Boston bomb survivors
April 23 2013 at 17:21

Emilio Morenatti, a photojournalist who lost his leg in an Afghan blast, has some encouragement for Boston's survivors.

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More than 1 million orphans desperately need foster child grants, but are failed by a shortage of social workers, says the writer. Picture: Bongiwe Mchunu

Huge relief for orphans and grandparents
April 23 2013 at 14:18

A landmark ruling has cleared the way for grandparents to access grants for orphans in their care, writes Ann Skelton.

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Joburg could be clean if we all said no to littering, says the writer.

Litter-free city begins with you
April 23 2013 at 08:24

A clean Joburg is going to need all of us to be intolerant of littering, says Pikitup MD Amanda Nair.

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Gwede Mantashe is secretary-general of the ANC.

DA dishonest in claiming Mandela
April 22 2013 at 12:57

Linking Suzman to Nelson Mandela, who represents the best values of the ANC, is disingenuous, writes Gwede Mantashe.

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Kliptown Hall, Walter Sisulu Square in Soweto, where Judicial Service Commission interviews for a Constitutional Court judge post took place. The author questions the relevance of most of what the candidates were asked. Picture: Dumisani Sibeko

JSC is consistently inconsistent
April 22 2013 at 09:01

The JSC gets away with doing a shoddy job in the full glare of an unsuspecting media, writes Eusebius McKaiser.

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The editor of The Star, Makhudu Sefara, delivers his address at the launch of The Star Workplaces WorkSA initiative at the Sandton Convention Centre. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng

Please help fight unemployment
April 19 2013 at 12:31

Taking in interns will help free graduates and students from a life of poverty and want, writes Makhudu Sefara.

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Runners run towards the finish line of the Boston Marathon as a bomb went off on Monday. Two explosions ripped through the crowd at the finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 170 people. Picture: Dan Lampariello

What kind of person bombs a marathon?
April 19 2013 at 09:40

They kill because they hate life; we run because we love it. And we’ll keep going, writes Richard Askwith.

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Minister of Public Service and Administration Lindiwe Sisulu. Picture: Bongiwe Mchunu

Everybody deserves good service
April 18 2013 at 18:05

A School of Government will teach public servants to treat rich and poor people with the same zeal, says Thami ka Plaatjie

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