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/ 2 November 2007
The 24-year-old actress stars in a new satire about South Africa’s fanaticism around the 2010 Soccer World Cup, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Labour said on Friday that preliminary findings of the ongoing inspections of compliance by the South African iron and steel industry painted a picture of an industry "fraught with high disregard of labour legislation countrywide".
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/ 2 November 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Friday at a <i>Financial Mail</i> medium-term budget briefing that the world had changed in the past 12 years and developing countries needed to become more involved in the world trade regime or else they would just be following the procession.
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/ 2 November 2007
<i>A Jihad for Love</i>, one of the offerings at this year’s Out in Africa festival, highlights the lived experiences of Islamic homosexuals, writes David Bilchitz.
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/ 2 November 2007
When 152 dolphins were washed up on Iran’s southern coast mass suicide was blamed. Then suspicion was shifted to fishermen, who were said to have beaten the dolphins with grappling irons after they became entangled in fishing nets. But now a more familiar target has been accused: the US military.
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/ 2 November 2007
Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel is under police investigation for fraud and corruption, a media report said on Friday. Nel led the investigation into the shooting of mining magnate Brett Kebble and led the state’s aborted probe into alleged criminal activity by police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 2 November 2007
The battle for leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) would be either a two- or three-way race, businessman Saki Macozoma told students and academics at the University of the Witwatersrand on Thursday. ”That’s what I read,” he said in a lecture facilitated by the Platform on Public Deliberations.
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/ 2 November 2007
The rugby season is over and the foot-shooting season is upon us again. On the field the game in South Africa is stronger than it has ever been. Proof came in Bloemfontein on Saturday when the Free State Cheetahs took two tries on the chin from the Lions, then scored two of their own to win the Currie Cup final 20-18.
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/ 2 November 2007
Tens of thousands of Mexicans were trapped on rooftops and others clung to lampposts on Thursday after heavy rains flooded nearly the entire southern state of Tabasco. At least 500 000 people were made homeless and one person was killed in the worst flooding the swampy state has seen in more than 50 years.
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/ 2 November 2007
Indonesia’s Mount Kelud volcano in East Java is in a critical phase and could erupt any time a day after being shaken by hundreds of tremors, the country’s top volcanic expert said on Friday. Authorities raised the alert at Mount Kelud, one of Indonesia’s deadliest volcanoes, to maximum two weeks ago.