Reality television you just know you want to see.
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Archive for February, 2001
Usability of e-mail subject lines. Why is this not required reading for all AOL users?
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From the Mail & Guardian:
The President of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at the University of the North, who has been at the institution since 1992 for a four-year B Juris law degree, is among 10 SRC members suing the institution for R1m for defamation for revealing that they owed more than R400 000 in outstanding fees.Their lawyers are filing papers with the Pretoria High Court after the university failed to publicly apologise to the students and pay them R100 000 each.
The student body owes a collective R150m, making the university the worst financially managed institution in the country.
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A damning report from the US State Department has said that “South Africa’s human rights scorecard has been blemished by the excessive use of force by security forces, political violence, overcrowded prisons and increasing vigilante activities”. According to the Mail & Guardian, the “Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) reported 511 deaths as a result of police action during the last 8 months of last year. Of these, 186 occurred to citizens in custody.”
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Two suspected cellphone thieves at Isikhumbuzo High School in Gauteng narrowly escaped death when pupils armed with sticks, knobkerries and stones threatened to kill them. This was only the latest vigilante attack in a spate of violence that saw five people die in the past week.
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A Mpumalanga man was arrested after alledgedly murdering his common-law wife and cutting off her genitals. The genitals were possibly to be used as muti (traditional medicine).
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Two suspected cannibals in Mpumalanga have been sent to Weskoppies psychiatric hospital in Pretoria for a second round of mental observation.
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Two of Mpumalanga’s largest hospitals were forced to stop all blood tests on Monday after the province failed to pay a R1.7 million bill. This has a direct impact on kidney dialysis programmes, as well as malaria and other blood test services at the Standerton and Rob Ferreira hospitals.
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Incidents of mob justice in and around Soweto led to the deaths of fourth people in two days. Gauteng residents have stoned to death more than 20 “suspected criminals” over the past two years.
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Microsoft being unusually frank in their explanation of the term RTFM.
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Members of Parliament and other civil servants living in the subsidised Acacia Park parliamentary village in Cape Town owe more than R329,000 in rental arrears.
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“Trafigure, the trading company embroiled in the South African state oil kickback scandal, has close links with Marc Rich, the alleged fraudster who broke international oil sanctions against apartheid South Africa and who has been controversially pardoned by former United States president Bill Clinton.”
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Documenting the American South is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. An excellent resource for anyone interested in the period or area.
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Leaked crime figures show that the South African crime rate has risen sharply for the first few months of 2001.
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