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/ 15 September 2006
Tariq Ali discusses Lawrence Wright’s 480-page tome <i>The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11</i>, already a United States bestseller.
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/ 15 September 2006
Renee Muller is this year’s winner of the BTA/Anglo Platinum Short Story Competition for <i>Mrs Tilbury’s Cast-Offs</i>. This is an extract.
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/ 15 September 2006
Lloyd Gedye criticises the plot — or lack of one — in Douglas Coupland’s latest novel.
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/ 15 September 2006
The traditional instrumentalist goes electronic to teach the youth a lesson, writes Andie Miller.
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/ 15 September 2006
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal finds that Jack Black fails to raise even a titter in the comedy <i>Nacho Libre</i>.
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/ 15 September 2006
Zoë Wicomb’s new novel proves most engaging in its ordinariness, writes Jane Rosenthal.
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/ 15 September 2006
Cuban President Fidel Castro’s state of health loomed over a summit of non-aligned nations on Friday at which Iran and other prominent opponents of United States policy sought to forge a united front. State television showed Castro standing up briefly to greet friend and ally Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President, on Thursday.
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/ 15 September 2006
Lawyers representing detained trade union and opposition activists in Zimbabwe say their clients were viciously assaulted by police while in detention this week. Armed police swooped on the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leadership on Wednesday as they prepared to march to present a petition to the finance minister
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/ 15 September 2006
While kwaito artists were learning how to write rhyming couplets, Guguletu youths were honing a potent dancehall style they are now exporting overseas, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 15 September 2006
The Hollywood actor George Clooney on Thursday warned the United Nations Security Council that Darfur would become the scene of the ”first genocide of the 21st century” if peacekeepers were not sent to Sudan by the end of the month. ”After September 30, you won’t need the UN,” he told the council.