Karen Rutter
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/ 17 July 2006

‘Out’ and into the front line

Cape Town beach volleyball international Leigh-Ann Naidoo was the only member of the South African squad at the 2004 Olympics to publicly ”out” herself as a lesbian. ”There were other gay people in the squad,” said Naidoo, ”but they didn’t want to admit it publicly.”

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/ 30 March 2006

Literary trading

The Cape Town Book Fair provides the ideal platform for getting South Africa’s new writing and publishing out there, but it is being launched with performance, not hype, in mind. Karen Rutter reports.