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/ 23 December 2005
The African National Congress has retained all serving metro mayors on its local election candidate lists — despite earlier speculation that there could be wholesale changes. Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo, Cape Town mayor Noma-india Mfeketo, Ekurhuleni mayor Duma Nkosi and Durban mayor Obed Mlaba top their respective local lists.
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/ 23 December 2005
"Journalists don’t often get the chance to set the agenda, to pursue a theme. The pressure of events and unplanned story opportunities plays havoc with attempts to follow a systematic track. However this year, my colleague Stefaans Brümmer and I were able to bring a long-term theme of investigation to fruition," writes the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Sam Sole.
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/ 23 December 2005
The government has tabled a special black economic empowerment (BEE) deal for foreign multinationals that exempts them from bringing in black shareholders. The latest BEE codes of conduct, released recently, say that multi-nationals operating in South Africa can sidestep BEE ownership regulations if they can show that implementing black shareholding will cause substantial commercial harm.
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/ 23 December 2005
ANIMATION OF THE WEEK: Nick Park’s delightful animation, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is a lovely family film packed with cheeky gags and buoyant fun, writes Peter Bradshaw.
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/ 23 December 2005
A spokesperson of Egypt’s Islamist opposition Muslim Brotherhood retracted on Friday a remark made earlier by the group’s top leader that the Holocaust was a ”myth”. In his weekly article posted on Thursday on the group’s website, the group’s leader, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, had described the Holocaust as a ”myth”.
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/ 23 December 2005
Dust off the tinsel and put on those dancing shoes to usher in <b>2006</b>.
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/ 23 December 2005
FANTASY OF THE WEEK : The Chronicles of Narnia is most definitely a movie for kids, made in that condescending way Disney has perfected over the years, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 December 2005
In a secret and secure location, a set of computers holds the hundreds of thousands of files that document how companies and individuals exploited the United Nations oil-for-food programme in league with Saddam Hussein. Yet, two months after the programme’s troubles were exposed, there has been no rush by the authorities in question to study the documents.
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/ 23 December 2005
It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, Santa Claus is still going to check your car for bombs at one ritzy Indonesian hotel this Christmas, where a sleighful of Santas have been descending on cars as they enter the grounds in a bid to thwart potential Islamic extremist attacks.
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/ 23 December 2005
A Dutch-Mauritian research team has discovered remains of the extinct dodo bird on the Indian ocean island, dating back about 2 000 to 3 000 years. The fossil material was excavated in an area of Mauritius called Mare aux Songes, a low-lying swamp area in the dry south-eastern part of the island.