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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.
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/ 3 February 2006
President Thabo Mbeki presents an extraordinary State of the Nation address this year: he is politically weaker than he has ever been, and paradoxically, because of the economy, stronger too. In this context, he should ditch the usual format of his address, lose the PowerPoint presentation of numbers of homes electrified, jobs created and promises kept to focus on the genuine state of the nation.
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/ 3 February 2006
Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni kept interest rates unchanged, with the repo rate at 7% and in turn a prime rate of 10,5%. And this week the JSE breached the magical level of 20 000 points, and factories showed signs of bleeding because of the strong rand.
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/ 3 February 2006
Abducting oil workers for ransom has become so common in Nigeria that beer mats in expatriate bars read, "Eat a lot — fat people are harder to kidnap". But for the four foreign hostages released unharmed earlier this week, the ordeal was no laughing matter. The group succumbed to malaria and was held for three weeks.