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/ 1 September 2006
Muso and label owner Paul Riekert is bursting back in style, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 1 September 2006
South African support for Iran held firm as a United Nations deadline for Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme expired, potentially triggering sanctions by the UN Security Council or the United States and its allies. A flurry of diplomatic activity followed the visit to Pretoria by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottak
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/ 1 September 2006
A row erupted at the South African Democratic Teachers Union conference recently, with heated claims that the African National Congress top brass barred the party’s deputy president, Jacob Zuma, from addressing delegates. The uproar was a further sign of the intense power struggles in the union movement two weeks before the ninth congress of the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
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/ 1 September 2006
The homeless man who was arrested on Wednesday after claiming in a radio interview to have witnessed Brett Kebble’s murder, earlier gave the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> a description of the "killer". Lesego Amos Yekane (24) was interviewed by the <i>M&G</i> on Tuesday. He described the alleged killer as a "huge man with a bald head".
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/ 1 September 2006
African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma’s personal adviser, Elias Khumalo, has hit back at Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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/ 1 September 2006
A Swazi princess’s outspoken views about polygamy got her into serious trouble in the troubled kingdom. "Polygamy brings all advantages in a relationship to men, and this to me is unfair and evil," Princess Sikhanyiso told a recent media conference. But the 18-year-old princess, who is King Mswati’s oldest daughter and the child of his first wife, has since been gagged.
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/ 1 September 2006
Sales of SUVs — sports utility vehicles — may be plummeting in markets such as the United States and United Kingdom as higher fuel prices begin to bite, but not in South Africa, where sales are at record levels. From more than 2Â 000 units sold in August 2004 there has been a gradual upsurge in the sales recorded to a two-year high of mroe than 3 600 units in March of this year.
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/ 1 September 2006
Someone had misplaced the public protector’s collection of James Taylor tapes and the office was in uproar. Lawrence Mushwana was livid. Despite handwritten signs all over the building, declaring the touching of his tapes a firing offence, they always went missing, and precisely at the moment when he most wanted to give them another whirl on the official tape-deck.
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/ 1 September 2006
It is brave to take on a production of the cult hit, <i>The Rocky Horror Show</i>. It is also plainly foolish if you do not have deep pockets. But Spier has taken a bold step in staging the first all-black Rocky Horror Show, writes Brent Meersman.
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/ 1 September 2006
I’m convinced that Cape Town has the most transparent theatres in the country. Not because they would tell you how they select their shows or what they’re paying their actors (getting this information is still as hard as an away-from-home judge in a Mumbai hotel), but because the city with the foulest weather also has the largest number of open-air theatres, writes Mike van Graan.