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/ 3 November 2006
Yolandi Groenewald looks at books that explore things that go bump in the night in South Africa.
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/ 3 November 2006
Jane Rosenthal reviews <i>What Kind of Child</i> by Ken Barris and Tom Eaton’s latest offering <i>Texas </i>.
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/ 3 November 2006
<i>Distant Relatives/Relative Distance</i> is inspired by the blurring of geographical and cultural boundaries, writes Brenton Maart.
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/ 3 November 2006
Nobody knows the trouble landlords have seen, nobody but Hollard Insurance, this is. And in its wisdom, Hollard is lightening the landlords’ burden with a new policy to protect them against defaulting tenants. An estimated 1,2-million landlords in South Africa will be cheered to know that R35 a month plus 1% of the rent can now buy them peace of mind.
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/ 3 November 2006
An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants and gunfire killed a Gaza woman on Friday as Israel pressed its three-day assault, the largest operation in the Gaza Strip for several months. At least 21 Palestinians have been killed, more than half of them militants, since Israeli troops entered the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun on Wednesday.
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/ 3 November 2006
Thousands of angry Muslims marched through southern Somalia on Friday protesting alleged Ethiopian and United States aggression as fears rose of all-out war between powerful Islamists and the weak government. Amid tensions following the collapse of peace talks this week in Sudan, at least 3 000 demonstrators rallied for holy war in the town of Jilib.
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/ 3 November 2006
Fees charged on savings accounts discourage people from saving, who then make use of more credit, the National Credit Regulator said on Friday. Chief executive officer Gabriel Davel, testifying at the public hearings of the Competition Commission’s Banking Enquiry in Pretoria, said that with the exception of one financial institution, the returns on all entry level savings accounts were negative.
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/ 3 November 2006
United States officials say they have created their own version of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia for intelligence agents, in a bid to encourage US spy agencies to share information and transcend bureaucratic rivalries. Intellipedia allows analysts and officials from a range of agencies to add and edit content on intelligence topics in a collaborative manner through a classified internal web.
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/ 3 November 2006
The saying ”Keeping up with the Joneses” could not have been more apt on Friday as hundreds of Joneses from around the globe headed to Cardiff to set a new world record. Joneses from as far afield as the United States and Australia have travelled to the Welsh capital to beat the current world record for a gathering of people with the same family name.
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/ 3 November 2006
Google will make more advertising revenue in the United Kingdom this year than Channel 4, the publicly-owned broadcaster’s chief executive said on Wednesday. Andy Duncan said some broadcasters had been slow to recognise the challenge posed by the internet and multichannel TV, which cut into the audience and ad revenues of terrestrial broadcasters.