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/ 17 November 2006
A drilling company has started operations for diamond exploration in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, an area that Bushmen believe they were evicted from, Survival International said on Thursday. TH Drilling confirmed to two members of the First People of the Kalahari organisation that it had started operations in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
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/ 17 November 2006
On the morning of April 30 1975 a young corporal in the army of North Vietnam drove a tank through the streets of an unfamiliar city wreathed in smoke and resounding with gunfire, and stopped at a set of wrought-iron gates. Corpses lay on the pavement, and in the distance a lone helicopter rose above the United States embassy and turned towards the river.
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/ 17 November 2006
Niren Tolsi appreciates the fact that Skwatta Kamp are back with more of the same, again.
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/ 17 November 2006
The album <i>Frieze</i> illustrates that Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 17 November 2006
We review some of the hottest music you have to have this festive season.
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/ 17 November 2006
As a fortnight of limited-overs spectacle dawns this weekend, one can’t help watching the newly arrived Indians with the grim, respectful pity usually displayed by onlookers in that part of the film where the dapper young engineer has drawn the short straw and must now leave his fiancée to fly into space where a comet and nuclear bomb have his name on them.
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/ 17 November 2006
Jake White should have savoured the past six days. When he looks back on his career as Springbok coach it may turn out to have been the only time when the opposition coach was under more pressure than he. It is a nice irony, too, that White has spent the last week in the Georgian City of Bath, where England coach Andy Robinson once played his rugby.
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/ 17 November 2006
It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth and mankind is poised to go the way of the dinosaurs. To save the day, Nasa now plans to go where only Bruce Willis has gone before.
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/ 17 November 2006
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma’s legal team is gearing itself up to lodge an application for a mistrial on the grounds that the state has violated legal procedure, should the National Prosecuting Authority recharge Zuma with corruption.
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/ 17 November 2006
The arrest of Glenn Agliotti on suspicion of murdering mining magnate Brett Kebble has opened perhaps the biggest can of worms in South Africa’s criminal history. The arrest could have grave implications for police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, who famously called Agliotti "my friend, finish and <i>klaar</i>".