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A 37-year-old traditional healer who planned a farm attack and robbery was sentenced by the Grahamstown High Court on Friday to 20 years in prison. Judge Jos Jones found that Xolani Dube, of Kwazakhele, Port Elizabeth, had masterminded the attack on a farmhouse near Cookhouse on October 13 2004.
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/ 14 December 2007
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewers Jane Rosenthal and Percy Zvomuya talk about their favourite books of the year.
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/ 14 December 2007
ON CIRCUIT: <i>30 Days of Night</i>, <i>Bee Movie</i> and <i>La Vie en Rose</i>.
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/ 14 December 2007
South African nurses have received significant salary increases including back-pay of up to six months, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Friday in Bloemfontein. She said the increases form part of an agreement with unions of an occupational-specific dispensation for nurses signed in September this year.
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In an eleventh-hour appeal before the African National Congress’s (ANC) national conference starts on Sunday, President Thabo Mbeki on Friday urged delegates to remain faithful to the party’s revolutionary goals. He said it is important that delegates fully understand the responsibility they carry on their shoulders.
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/ 14 December 2007
William Kentridge’s dark, magical animations are on exhibition in a multi-venue show in Brighton. Guardian critic Adrian Searle takes a journey.
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/ 14 December 2007
Ricky Ponting scored his 24th one-day 100 and Adam Gilchrist clubbed a ferocious half-century to steer Australia to a convincing seven-wicket win over New Zealand in the opening Chappell Hadlee Trophy series game in Adelaide on Friday. Skipper Ponting cruised to an unbeaten 107 off 108 balls with 13 boundaries to glide Australia home to victory.
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/ 14 December 2007
Formula One team McLaren on Thursday issued a public apology over their role in the spying saga that rocked the world championship this year. ”As a result of the investigations carried out by the FIA it has become clear that Ferrari information was more widely disseminated within McLaren than was previously communicated,” said a statement.
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/ 14 December 2007
During a work break, Dennis Ouma Ochieng sips his soda and declares the one thing that will decide his choice in Kenya’s upcoming presidential election: tribe. Ochieng, a Luo, will vote later this month for another Luo, Raila Odinga. And not because he thinks Odinga will do a better job than incumbent Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu.
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/ 14 December 2007
Author and former academic Raj Patel speaks to Jocelyn Newmarch about the impact of food middlemen on the world’s nations.