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/ 19 October 2007
The UK’s best black actors must go to the US to get good roles, writes David Harewood, a winner in this year’s ‘black Baftas’.
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/ 19 October 2007
South African poet, mentor and poetry publisher Robert Berold has crafted a sensuous memoir of a year living and teaching in China, <i>Meanwhile Don’t Push and Squeeze</i> (Jacana). It also includes texts by Berold’s Chinese students and his partner Mindy Stanford. This is an extract.
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/ 19 October 2007
Four staff at a hospital in South Africa were killed on Friday when an employee went on a shooting spree shortly after being sacked, police said. Those victims of the shootings at Seshego Hospital, near Polokwane in Limpopo, included the chief executive officer, the human resource manager and the administration officer.
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/ 19 October 2007
Irish author Anne Enright beats competition from McEwan to win the Man Booker prize, writes Charlotte Higgins.
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/ 19 October 2007
Human trafficking is an evil as terrible as the Atlantic slave trade of the past, Chief Justice Pius Langa said on Friday. ”It is an evil as terrible as the slave trade of the past and it requires a concerted response from civil society and the government,” he said at the International Association of Women Judges Conference in Boksburg.
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/ 19 October 2007
Britain’s Northern Rock on Friday announced the resignation of chairperson Matt Ridley following a turbulent period at the crisis-hit bank. He will be succeeded by Bryan Sanderson, a former chairperson at British-based emerging markets bank Standard Chartered and healthcare firm Bupa, the company said in a statement.
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/ 19 October 2007
A man accused of raping three elderly women was expected to plead guilty in the Grahamstown High Court on Friday, but changed his mind at the last minute. This prompted his lawyer to withdraw, and the trial was postponed to January 29 2008. The women’s ages ranged from 54 to 65.
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/ 19 October 2007
Rwanda called on France on Friday to extradite a Rwandan wanted for his alleged role in the country’s 1994 genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Dominique Ntawukuriryayo, a former sub-prefect during the mass killings, was arrested by French police in Carcassonne, south-west France.
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/ 19 October 2007
The battle over the agenda of a conference on Palestinian statehood offers United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a glimpse of the gruelling process that awaits if and when the two sides enter formal negotiations. Four days of shuttle diplomacy by Rice this week were not enough to close the gaps.
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/ 19 October 2007
The Pakistan government blamed Islamist militants for twin blasts early on Friday that killed 133 people as opposition leader Benazir Bhutto drove through masses of supporters in Karachi. Bhutto, travelling in a truck reinforced to withstand bomb attacks, was unhurt by the deadliest bomb attack in her country’s violent history.