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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
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
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
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
South Africa is in a strange situation with regard to the supply of petroleum fuels. Sasol produces about 23% of the country’s requirements at, what seems to be, a considerably lower cost than the other refineries — yet it is required by law to sell its products at prices as if the stuff was being imported from international refineries.
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/ 1 September 2006
As Europe seeks to reduce dependence on the unstable Middle East’s oil reserves, it is not only looking to continents such as Africa or Latin America, but also to its own soil to ensure supplies. Several companies are investigating the possibilities of starting or increasing oil production in Spain, an insignificant producer so far.
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/ 1 September 2006
Chad’s president has threatened to expel energy giants Chevron and Petronas, two of the three consortium partners in a World Bank-backed project that was meant to serve as a model for oil extraction in Africa. Idriss Déby accused the United States and Malaysian companies of failing to pay R3,2-billion in taxes and told them to make plans to leave the country.
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/ 1 September 2006
Dust off your bike, fuel shortages may soon hit again, says an investigation commissioned for the Department of Minerals and Energy. In December last year South Africa experienced a series of shortages in fuel supplies that caused major disruptions for commuters and businesses alike.
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/ 1 September 2006
About 60 Somalis have been killed and another 15 injured in the Western Cape in the past two months in a deliberate attempt to chase businessmen from the African country out of Cape Town’s townships, according to the Somali residents. They said 29 Somali businessmen had been killed in August alone, mostly in Khayelitsha.
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/ 1 September 2006
Slam poetry used to have an element of hipness about it, but today I would rather be bludgeoned with a blunt object than be trapped in a crowded, dimly lit room being forced to clap to the garbage coming out of the microphone. But then there’s Odidi Mfenyana’s Rhythms Down My Spine – a one-man nu-cabaret that is currently doing the rounds in Cape Town, writes Fidel Mbhele.