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/ 23 November 2007
Niren Tolsi speaks to Dhafer Youssef about globalisation as a positive force in music.
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/ 23 November 2007
Three people died and a number were injured during a fierce storm in Johannesburg on Thursday, paramedics and emergency officials said. Netcare 911 spokesperson Nick Dollman said a young man was killed and two people injured by a large tree that fell over in Perth Road in Auckland Park during the storm.
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/ 23 November 2007
The Soweto derby, between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs, has captured the imagination of football lovers since 1970. The fixture has become the showstopper of the South African football calendar. This weekend’s match in Durban will export the passions of South African fans to Europe and those parts of Africa where it will be televised live.
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/ 23 November 2007
ON CIRCUIT: Reviews of <i>Balls of Fury</i>, <i>Big Fellas</i>, <i>Captivity</i> and more.
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/ 23 November 2007
Pretoria’s post-rockers kidofdoom have taken the music scene by storm, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 23 November 2007
Typhoon Mitag intensified as it churned towards the Philippines on Friday, triggering mass evacuations, flight cancellations and exacerbating heavy rains and flooding. In the central Bicol region, Philippines’ typhoon alley, people sought refuge in churches, schools and town halls as over 50 000 people fled their homes
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/ 23 November 2007
”In America a woman can be raped and if she has no health insurance then she can’t get help. That’s fucking ridiculous. So what are we doing here telling the rest of the world how to live? We have enough problems to sort out at home.” David Smith recalls a few of the sentiments expressed by United States troops during his stay in Baghdad.
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/ 23 November 2007
He’s been accused of being Fidel’s stooge, but the editor-in-chief of <i>Le Monde Diplomatique</i> says that unrivalled access to the Cuban leader is something that most journalists dream of. John Crace reports.
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/ 23 November 2007
Dineo Bopape on Saul Williams’s third album, <i>The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust</i>.
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/ 23 November 2007
Composer Philip Miller brings South African freedom songs into dialogue with the Western-style orchestral tradition. He spoke to Shaun de Waal.