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/ 10 February 2006
<b>NOT QUITE THE CD OF THE WEEK</b>: The <i>Tsotsi</i> soundtrack is not the watershed moment in this country’s music export history, but it does come strapped with secret weapons aplenty, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 10 February 2006
Shaun de Waal looks at a wide range of books dealing with gender issues and how they affect the role of South Africans in society today.
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/ 10 February 2006
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: The film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> is scripted with great skill and would makes a great heterosexual date movie, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 10 February 2006
Nadine Botha checks out the much-publicised Picasso and Africa exhibition.
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/ 10 February 2006
The African National Congress-led Cape Town council appears to have been drafted to boost the party’s faltering municipal election campaign.
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/ 10 February 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions supports the government’s Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (Asgi), in principle — but says it will not succeed if it does not tackle poverty and inequality more forthrightly. The clumsily named strategy, unveiled this week, is the government’s blueprint for achieving 6% growth.
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/ 10 February 2006
Author Sven Hedlin was profoundly impressed by the people he found himself among. They were refugees in their own country, disinherited and robbed of their national pride by the Jewish agents of the United States and Britain, but their ancestors had once been the shining lights in a dark world.
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/ 10 February 2006
"In a remarkable show of unity, Muslims have globally expressed their disgust and disappointment at the blasphemous portrayal of their Beloved Prophet Muhammad . Muslims are exercising their constitutional right within this country and internationally to defend the honour and dignity of their Beloved Prophet from the defamatory, hurtful and irresponsible cartoons," writes Nabeweya Malick.
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/ 10 February 2006
At Christmas and on birthdays my wife and I give each other books. This last year we thought we would treat ourselves to just one big and expensive one. It was what affects to be the seventh edition of that eternal companion to anyone who is at all fascinated by the exuberant bird life of this country: <i>Roberts’ Birds of Southern Africa</i>.
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/ 10 February 2006
Tsjoe! It’s been a searing week for the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>, as we found ourselves in the eye of the South African storm over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The letters pages are alight with anger; our online forums clatter with fury.