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/ 29 September 2005
Being proud, flag-waving South Africans doesn’t mean that we have to be happy-clappy rainbowists, deliberately blind to anything that shakes our confidence in our country, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 29 September 2005
A new book looks at the ife and time of DJ Khabzela, who preached safe sex, but lost his life to Aids, writes Sabata-Mpho Mokae.
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/ 29 September 2005
Unlike other works cashing in on The Da Vinci Code‘s success, Dan Burstein’s collection of essays seeks to understand the complexities of gnosticism and Christian origins, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 29 September 2005
Minster of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is happy with the South African National Blood Service’s (SANBS) new race-free risk rating model, she said on Thursday. ”I am glad the SANBS has been able to implement the new risk model for blood donations that excludes race within timelines that we set,” she told reporters in Johannesburg.
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/ 29 September 2005
Mark Scott-Crossley, who threw a man to lions to die, was not a bad person, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Thursday. ”He [Scott-Crossley] has got good attributes,” his counsel Johann Engelbrecht SC told Justice George Maluleke.
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/ 29 September 2005
The book <i>SOUTH AFRICA’S 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities</i> deserves wide attention, both as a contribution to the study of a largely overlooked period of our history or the very high quality of its scholarship, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 29 September 2005
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b><i>A Boy Called Twist </i>is a riveting, emotional ride, spurred on by an invigorating soundtrack and a beguiling minimalism, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 29 September 2005
<b>AUTHOR’S NOTES</b>: Arthur Attwell recently published his first collection of poetry, which has been described as "combining the elegance and precision of an American master like Richard Wilbur".
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/ 29 September 2005
A Ugandan was arrested after being caught roasting his neighbour’s dog in order to eat it, local media reported on Thursday. Police arrested Hakim Abale Asega on a tip-off from neighbours who said they found him barbecueing ”a fat brown dog”. They suspected he had earlier clubbed it to death.
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/ 29 September 2005
Work to uncover and eradicate corruption in the 2004/05 financial year has saved the government projected future losses of nearly R3,5-billion, the Special Investigating Unit said on Thursday. This was calculated on the premise that malpractices exposed during the year were likely to have continued on average for ten more years.