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/ 2 September 2005
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Gregg Araki’s new film <i>Mysterious Skin</i> may lack the sense of nihilism often present in his earlier films, but it’s about youthful sexuality and abuse and how different people deal with such things, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 2 September 2005
The stories in <i>Childhood: South Africans Recall Their Past </i>, tell of hope and the triumph of human spirit, even though they emanate from an era filled with anguish, pain and loss, writes Sabata-Mpho Mokae.
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/ 2 September 2005
ZA@Play brings you reviews of CD releases out in stores.
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/ 2 September 2005
Electronic music gurus congregate in Jo’burg for four days of workshops, seminars and performances, writes Matthew Burbidge.
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/ 2 September 2005
Mike van Graan delivers the top stories from an alternative news source.
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/ 2 September 2005
<b>CD OF THE WEEK:</b> For their new album The Parlotones have borrowed from Brit-pop and Brit-rock, but didn’t let these styles dictate the direction of their creativity, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 2 September 2005
South Africa’s leading wine-producing company, Boland Vineyards International, on Friday announced the sale of a 26% stake to an investment firm owned by black women. ”The new company [Boland Basadi Investments] will handle 80% of our wine sales,” Boland Vineyards International chairperson Jannie le Roux said.
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/ 2 September 2005
The French defence minister warned on Friday of ”worrying signs” in Côte d’Ivoire, saying rebel militias there are rebuilding and re-arming in violation of ceasefire accords. Michele Alliot-Marie, speaking on French radio, expressed concern that some Ivorians ”dream only of one thing: to take up arms again”.
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/ 2 September 2005
At least 12 people across Ethiopia have died in storms that have also destroyed harvests in some areas, the local media reported on Friday. Seven female farm labourers were killed by lightning on Wednesday in Tigrai state in northern Ethiopia, where flooding caused by heavy rains also destroyed 175ha of barley and wheat crops.
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/ 2 September 2005
Israel has frozen a controversial project to link its largest West Bank settlement to annexed east Jerusalem, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a newspaper interview published on Friday. The plans to build 3 500 new housing units near Maale Adumim defied the Middle East road-map peace plan.