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/ 13 December 2005
United States R&B star John Legend speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about songwriting, singing his national anthem and Christianity.
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/ 13 December 2005
Anthony Egan reviews two new books, which go a considerable way to helping us see the new South African Police Service (SAPS) more fairly.
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/ 13 December 2005
Robbie Williams’s latest album is an energetic and shameless form of pastiche pop, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 13 December 2005
An application for the setting aside of an arrest warrant for an information technology consultant implicated in an alleged National Intelligence Agency hoax e-mail scam was put on ice on Tuesday. The application was removed from the Pretoria High Court’s urgent roll by consent of all the parties involved.
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/ 13 December 2005
A United Nations-backed tribunal on Tuesday convicted a former senior Rwandan army officer of playing a major role in the country’s 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 25 years in prison, officials said. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found ex-colonel Aloys Simba guilty of genocide and extermination.
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/ 13 December 2005
The National Assembly on Tuesday approved legislation giving effect to the Constitution’s Twelfth Amendment that abolishes cross-boundary municipalities. This affects 17 municipalities, including the contentious ones of Merafong (Gauteng to North West) and Matatiele (KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape).
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/ 13 December 2005
A low-cost housing project in the Western Cape is the only African project to receive funding from developed countries for its role in reducing greenhouse gases. The Kuyasa project, in Khayelitsha near Cape Town, attracted great interest at the Montreal climate change conference recently because it is the kind of project delegates hope will be replicated in other countries.
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/ 13 December 2005
World trade ministers on Tuesday began talks to salvage free-trade negotiations amid little hope for a major breakthrough, as thousands of protesters denounced the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as an enemy of the poor. Ministers will spend the next six days trying to salvage the Doha Round of trade negotiations.
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/ 13 December 2005
For those too young to have lived through them, it can feel like the Depression and World War II happened in black and white. So, the brilliance in a trove of rarely seen colour photographs of the era is startling: a female railroad worker sports a red kerchief and matching nail polish; factory rows of B-25 bombers sprout like yellow corn.
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/ 13 December 2005
Jacques Rudolph hit an unbeaten double century in a drawn match on Tuesday against Western Australia A in South Africa’s final warm-up match before Friday’s first of three cricket Tests against Australia. Jacques Kallis continues to struggle with an elbow injury, and is in doubt for the first Test.