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/ 20 January 2006
The spot price of gold on Friday afternoon climbed to $567 a troy ounce, its highest level since January 1981, on strong buying of the precious metal. The spot price of rhodium climbed to a 14-and-half-year high of $3 140 a troy ounce on Friday on the back of strength in the rest of the precious-metals complex.
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/ 20 January 2006
An Indonesian publisher said on Friday that he will press ahead with a local edition of Playboy despite opposition from Muslim leaders, but promised that the risqué magazine will not contain nudes. Publisher Ponti Carollus said the Indonesian-language magazine will focus on articles rather than photographs.
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/ 20 January 2006
At least 16 people were injured, three seriously, on Friday as Ethiopian police moved to quell unrest in at least two parts of the capital on the second and final day of celebrations marking the Orthodox Epiphany, or Timkat, hospital officials said. The wounded included three men who were shot in the abdomen, chest and pelvis respectively.
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/ 20 January 2006
A three-year-old child was reportedly among several people injured when police fired rubber bullets at a crowd protesting their eviction from a block of flats in Hillbrow on Friday. Police said the crowd started throwing bottles at the police shortly after 7am when a court official delivered an interdict calling off their eviction.
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/ 20 January 2006
A controversial biography has revealed that ‘the father of African literature’ may not in fact have been African-born. David Dabydeen reports.
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/ 20 January 2006
<b>BIOPIC OF THE WEEK</b>: Any attempt to capture the spirit of the Man in Black was always going to be a tall order and the new Johnny Cash biopic, <i>Walk the Line</i>, stands up to the challenge, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 20 January 2006
Steven Spielberg’s most political film yet could compromise his position in the Jewish world, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 20 January 2006
Just when it seems like kwaito is little more than an unsubtle sexual hook intended to grab immature kids, a lone voice is upholding its street cred. Kwanele Sosibo reports.
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/ 20 January 2006
Nine concerts, 150 bands, two million spectators, three billion viewers — and one message to eight men in one room. Riaan Wolmarans reviews the Live8 concerts DVD.
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/ 20 January 2006
<b>CD OF THE WEEK</b>: The Canadian Timmins clan’s trademark wistful, forlorn sound sprawls over their latest release, <i>Early 21st Century Blues</i>, writes Riaan Wolmarans. Also read new reviews of Limp Bizkit, Frank Black, Clout and others.