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/ 3 February 2006
Pity Schabir Shaik, now staring both jail and penury in the face after a High Court judgement ordered him and his company to be stripped of R34-million. Shaik has indicated he will appeal against this second devastating judgement of his ”nemesis”, retired Judge Hilary Squires, even if the Supreme Court of Appeal confirms his conviction, but the odds are getting worse.
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/ 3 February 2006
The Mail & Guardian‘s business section ran stories late last year on how advances in voice-over-internet protocol present a huge challenge to Telkom. The telecommunications giant’s discomfort was reported with no little glee in the media. It was David vs Goliath. However, the media are soon to find out that the internet is a creature from a different mythology.
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/ 3 February 2006
Jeff Guy delves into the 1906 Zulu uprising and the murder of two colonials in his new novel, <i>The Maphumulo Uprising: War, Law and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion</i>. Anthony Egan reports.
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/ 3 February 2006
Kwanele Sosibo watches the Oscar-nominated <i>Tsotsi</i> with some hoodlums to get their opinion on the authenticity of the movie.
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/ 3 February 2006
The Very Real Time event aims to shed light on the way South Africans view socially engaged art, writes Nadine Botha.
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/ 3 February 2006
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: In her new movie <i>North Country</i>, Charlize Theron does a solid, credible job in the lead role that allows her to get her pretty face dirty without having to do the full <i>Monster</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 3 February 2006
Friends and colleagues of former <i>Mail & Guardian</i> chief photographer Kevin Carter, who committed suicide in 1994, were overjoyed this week that a low-budget documentary about his life has been nominated for an Oscar. <i>The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club</i>, garnered a nomination for best short documentary.
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/ 3 February 2006
The Presidency is finely balanced between strength and weakness as the State of the Nation address is delivered.
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/ 3 February 2006
Sandi Majali’s controversial R65 000 loan for the renovation of Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya’s home was made only four weeks after a consortium, IT Lynx — of which he was a part — demanded that Skweyiya award it a stalled R400‑million tender. This new evidence casts doubt on Majali’s earlier excuse that he had no motive to try to bribe Skweyiya.
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/ 3 February 2006
The South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco), a long-standing but lately dormant ally of the African National Congress, has made a political intervention that seeks a constitutional amendment to allow President Thabo Mbeki to serve a third term as the country’s president.