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/ 7 November 2003
In a globalising world, insecurity anywhere is a threat to security everywhere. In this context, it is with pride that I observe Mbeki trumpeting the principles of good governance enshrined in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad). However, this pride is quickly replaced with despair when the realisation hits that Nepad is heavy on rhetoric and light on substance.
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/ 7 November 2003
Film Festival junkies will be pleased to hear that after the recent smorgasbord of festivals on offer, there is something remaining. Pack your bags because we are less than seven days away from Sithengi, Africa’s biggest film and television marketplace, writes Brian Paseka Letlhabane.
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/ 7 November 2003
Artists are often called upon to donate their creativity to some worthy cause. Yesterday it was a benefit concert for those who failed to get a 4×4 out of the arms deal. Today it will be poetry evening for people living with spies. In the freebie charity stakes artists must be the most called upon professionals, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 7 November 2003
A company connected to Mpumalanga minister for public works Steve Mabona got a multimillion-rand contract from his department — as did other companies associated with a Mabona relative. These contracts raise new conflict-of-interest questions about Mabona, whom the <i>M&G</i> last week showed to have received R1-million from another contractor to his department.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23202">If at first you don’t succeed…</a>
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/ 7 November 2003
For more than a year the Scorpions kept their investigation of Deputy President Jacob Zuma a tightly controlled secret. When, in November last year, I finally managed to lay my hands on court papers I had been seeking, I was unaware just how explosive they would be, writes Sam Sole, 2003 Vodacom Journalist of the Year.
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/ 7 November 2003
By the mid-1960s, John Boorman was a young prospect being watched in the new British film industry. Boorman didn’t go to university, or was ever apprenticed in the theatre. But his work in television had shown an ability to transform routine magazine programmes with the fresh air of real, awkward lives, writes David Thomson.
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/ 7 November 2003
Patricia Schonstein is a poet and the prize-winning author of <i>Skyline</i>, a novel about African refugees. Her new novel, <i>A Time of Angels</i> (Bantam), is a magical-realist tale of the supernatural and the universal themes that continue to preoccupy humankind — love, war, betrayal, good and evil.
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/ 7 November 2003
<i>The Kwaito Generals</i> serves as a useful tool to document the key moments — and three key figures — in the decade-long evolution of the phenomenon that is today known as kwaito, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 7 November 2003
Mere wealth transfer does not produce economic growth nor address poverty. We must accept that the meritorious goal of black empowerment may have a negative impact on economic growth and shrink our economic bases. Strategies must be developed to offset this, says Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The Democratic Alliance and the Inkatha Freedom Party spell out their policies on BEE.
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/ 7 November 2003
About a 10th of the population is gay or lesbian: three in a class of 30; 20 dancers at a disco of 200; 200 in a church congregation of 2 000 on Sunday mornings. But, because the rules are made by the great majority, who are not homosexual and do not understand their orientation, God help the homosexuals.