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/ 21 December 2007
European pop music gets a taste of African influence, writes Dave Simpson.
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/ 21 December 2007
The New Year’s resolution is best understood as a direct backlash to the annual marathon of compulsory debauchery known as the New Year’s Eve party.
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/ 21 December 2007
After protracted talks, Hirst has donated four important pieces from his personal collection to the Tate Gallery in London. Mark Brown reports.
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/ 21 December 2007
Under a golden sun, Paolo Bettini capped a perfect day for cycling by outracing, outwitting and, finally, outsprinting everyone to win the world road race title. If ever there were a glorious highlight to a season, that was it. As the Italian crossed the line, though, there was little joy because he had been involved in a doping scandal.
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/ 21 December 2007
As much as golf looked the same in 2007, some of the greatest triumphs were long overdue. Until a dramatic and calamitous Sunday on the cruel links of Carnoustie, the only time Padraig Harrington had reason to wave the Irish flag was during the Ryder Cup or perhaps a World Cup.
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/ 21 December 2007
Arthur Zwane will play his 99th match for Kaizer Chiefs on Saturday, but before that he has some important business to take care of. On Friday evening, the team he owns — Galatasaray Football Club — meet Inter Milan in a Meadowlands derby at the Discovery Walter Sisulu Challenge.
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/ 21 December 2007
Your guide to the best the big screen has to offer this holiday season.
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/ 21 December 2007
A Super 14 expansion side of Australians, Argentinians and Pacific Islanders playing out of Melbourne could be key to getting the Pumas into the southern hemisphere’s elite competitions, the Australian Rugby Union deputy chief executive Matt Carroll said on Friday.
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/ 21 December 2007
A Democratic Alliance Cape Town city councillor, Frank Martin, appeared briefly in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Friday after his arrest on Thursday for allegedly encouraging homeless people in Delft to move into houses not allocated to them. Martin was released on R1Â 000 bail by a Bellville prosecutor.
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/ 21 December 2007
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has not contacted new African National Congress president Jacob Zuma about corruption charges against him, he said on Friday. ”I have not been contacted, my advisers have not been contacted, but the media have been contacted,” Zuma said in an interview.