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/ 27 October 2006
First she was a play, now Miss KwaKwa comes to town in Stephen Simm’s debut novel. Tumi Makgetla examines the origins and aspirations of this wannabe celebrity.
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/ 27 October 2006
Author Christopher Hope tells it like he sees it when writing about Africa — and he’s seen a lot of it, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 27 October 2006
The name of the late kwaito trailblazer will remain embedded in musical history, writes Maria McCloy.
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/ 27 October 2006
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews <i>The Ice Harvest</i>, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton.
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/ 27 October 2006
Domestic inflationary pressures in South Africa remain on the boiler, despite the pullback in international energy prices, according to Moody’s <i>Economy.com</i>. Benchmark oil continues to hover around the $60 mark, dipping about 30% from its August peak in response to improved supply-side dynamics such as easing tensions in the Middle East.
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/ 27 October 2006
"When we want to work for a better future for our children, we must work together." These were the words of former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano on Thursday evening at the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> and Southern Africa Trust’s 2006 Investing in the Future Awards.
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/ 27 October 2006
And so race re-enters the debate about the media. SABC CEO Dali Mpofu says the current furore about blacklisting is all about ”wresting control” of the corporation from ”the barbarians”. He writes in City Press that a ”right-wing lobby and its fellow travellers in the mass media” is attacking the SABC for ”not feeding into their gluttonous, greedy smell of black blood which must be sacrificed at every whim”.
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/ 27 October 2006
You have to hand it to South African football fans. When it comes to fickleness, they are up there with the best. Which is a good thing for the sport, considering that what happens on the pitch is down there with the worst. Fans have accused the South African Football Association of sidelining them by staging the annual Nelson Mandela tournament in London.
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/ 27 October 2006
It might seem that the politicians are dominating the headlines, but it’s an illusion created by the fact that the rugby season is over and the Springboks don’t play Ireland for another fortnight. The regular battleground of the Eastern Cape is hogging the domestic limelight, but over in the Antipodes even more Machiavellian forces are at work.
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/ 27 October 2006
There’s an old joke about a journalist sent to Shady Pines to discover the secret of longevity. The first pensioner he meets attributes his great age to booze — a bottle a day for 70 of the past 90 years. The second, a crone of staggering decrepitude, owes it all to cigarettes — started when she was nine, smoked three packs a day until today, where she finds herself a reeking, yellowed 100-year-old.