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/ 20 October 2006
The arrest of controversial Dutch oil tycoon John Deuss has exposed a trail of questionable influence leading to South Africa’s second highest office. The fortunes of Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s political adviser, Ayanda Nkuhlu, are intimately tied to those of Deuss, whose company has seconded him to Mlambo-Ngcuka’s part-time service.
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/ 20 October 2006
John Cassy finds out how Norah Jones went from an unknown 21-year-old waitress to a singing sensation who has won multiple Grammys,
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/ 20 October 2006
A new drag show from Cape Town makes mincemeat of reality, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 20 October 2006
<strong>CD of the week</strong>: The Constructus Corporation: The Ziggurat
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/ 20 October 2006
South Africans are about to get hit with an avalanche of pay TV options from next year — some of them delivered to your cellphone. Until now MultiChoice — which owns M-Net and DStv — has been the sole provider of subscription TV in South Africa, but that’s about to change.
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/ 20 October 2006
"Today, the overriding importance of media and information has made the pen — or at least the computer — perhaps the most powerful weapon of all," writes Zwelinzima Vavi. South African journalists defend the current capitalist economic system as logical and good, and strive to ensure its survival.
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/ 20 October 2006
The interior world of the dancer arrived on stage at this year’s FNB Dance Umbrella, reports Matthew Krouse.
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/ 20 October 2006
The government is committed to halving the number of unemployed people by 2014. Aggressively attacking mass unemployment in South Africa is a moral imperative, especially since creating decent jobs is the most effective means of fighting poverty. But is the government’s goal realistic?
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/ 20 October 2006
For the majority of HIV-infected Zimbabwean workers payday has become a time to make tough choices. Such workers, many of whom earn less than Z$30Â 000 (R300) a month, have to decide between buying a month’s supply of antiretrovirals (ARVs) or food.
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/ 20 October 2006
Oil has been such an economic bogeyman in recent times, hogging the headlines, that not noticed is as severe a threat — food inflation. Food staple maize has been trading internationally at record highs, driven by the world’s move to energy diversification to produce bio-fuels as an alternative to fossil fuels.