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/ 15 September 2006
Croatia is this year’s setting for the annual meetings of the International Net-work for Cultural Policy (INCP), a grouping of about 58 cultural ministers from around the world, and its complementary NGO network, the International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD). Mike van Graan reports.
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/ 15 September 2006
Since the 1960s Pinotage has had its ups and downs but is currently on the ascent, being more widely planted now than its Cinsaut sire, once the most planted red grape variety in the Cape. Pinotage’s popularity is not simply due to its status as an ethnic curiosity. Pinotage, a homegrown wine, finds its place in the sun, writes Gad Kaplan.
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/ 15 September 2006
John Kani is not responsible for my nostalgia. Eighteen years spent outside South Africa have honed it to a sharp edge. There is no easy going back … not now, not even now. But return I have to the Market Theatre and I wait restlessly in the half-light that illuminates the set of Kani’s <i>Nothing but the Truth</i>, writes Louise Bethlehem.
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/ 15 September 2006
Fridays in Potchefstroom are usually mundane affairs. The sleepy town, only 150km from Johannesburg, snores away as many of the students from the local university leave to party elsewhere on the weekend. But Aardklop Fridays are different. Yolandi Groenewald looks back at this year’s Aardklop arts festival.
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/ 15 September 2006
The international community this week said that all members of the Congolese army must be cantoned in order to prevent renewed violence around the presidential run-off, now scheduled for October 29. Fears persist that the second round, which must yield a definitive winner, will spark even greater violence as the loser contests the results.
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/ 15 September 2006
Maria Banda, just five years old, and her grandmother, Aineli, spend every day breaking stones into gravel in quarries a few kilometres from the heart of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka. Hundreds of others are doing the same. Maria produces two to three tins each day, her grandmother as many as nine, which they sell for sh,50 a tin.
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/ 15 September 2006
In the foothills of the Bvumba mountains near the Mozambican border in eastern Zimbabwe, a group of villagers are gathered around a portable radio waiting for the daily broadcast of their favourite station. From a London suburb a resistance of exiled radio stars are beaming out the only opposition voice to Mugabe’s regime, writes Douglas Rogers.
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/ 15 September 2006
As the economic situation in Zimbabwe deteriorates, security forces are being trained by Chinese military advisers in how to counter popular revolt. Both the police and the army have been undergoing training in how to ”deal with urban disturbances” after an intelligence report was issued on the potential for massive civil unrest.
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