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/ 20 November 2010
New Zealand rescuers had still not made contact with 29 trapped miners on Saturday, almost 24 hours after an explosion ripped through a colliery.
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/ 19 November 2010
Schoolchildren all over the world have grown up alongside Harry Potter. Bidisha explains how the fantasy world has supplied a surrogate family.
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/ 19 November 2010
Standard Bank announced it would not renew sponsorship contracts with Cricket SA, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in 2011.
The G20 summit failed to tackle growing concerns that currency wars between Washington and Beijing will undermine hard-won stability.
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/ 19 November 2010
The ANC is yet to find a replacement for its deputy secretary general after Thandi Modise was appointed premier of the North West.
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/ 19 November 2010
Jane Rosenthal recommends books to while away the long, lazy, reading-friendly days that beckon.
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/ 19 November 2010
Jayne Galassi, in this new novel, describes perfectly the sudden transition from one reality to another, before and after the drowning of a child.
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/ 19 November 2010
Nadine Gordimer speaks to Emma Brockes
about the urge to write, what will happen
when Mandela dies, and being a white African.
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/ 19 November 2010
To the End of the Land by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen (Knopf) David Grossman’s novel To the End of the Land appeared in Hebrew in 2008 under the much more accurate title A Woman Escaping News. The woman is Ora, who is the centre of Grossman’s imaginative history of Israel between 1967 and […]