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/ 18 March 2005

Oh dear, Mr Mbuli …

Documents obtained by the Mail & Guardian belie claims by former Vista University administrative chief Reuben Mbuli that there was no conflict of interest when he accepted a hefty ”retainer” from a businessman trying to secure work from the university. These documents rubbish claims that the ”retainer” was received for private legal work, as Mbuli claimed in a letter to the M&G a fortnight ago.

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/ 18 March 2005

Youth, SACP bosses lock horns on poll

The Young Communist League believes the South African Communist Party may vote at a special conference next month to go it alone in this year’s local elections .
Young Communist League secretary general Buti Manamela said: ”As far as we know, the dominant position in the party is that we should contest power through elections.”

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/ 18 March 2005

Broadening the bioscope

From March 18 your movie experience will change utterly. Ster-Kinekor has announced that 80% of its movie houses will be turned into ”discount venues”, where seats will be unallocated and cost R14 each. In a move to revitalise cinema-going, hit by home entertainment and pricey tickets, the 30 ”Junction” movie houses will be largely located in malls used by black people.

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/ 18 March 2005

BEE ‘scam’: Businessman arrested

Property mogul Norman Benjamin and his accountant Emiliya Peneva, at the centre of a R16-million empowerment scandal in the Eastern Cape, were arrested this week following a Mail & Guardian exposé. The Joint Anti-Corruption Task Team took Benjamin and Peneva into custody in Cape Town on Monday. They appeared in the city’s magistrate court charged with fraud.

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/ 18 March 2005

Love across time

Movie director Rodney Evans, a guest of this year’s Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, writes about the making of his award-winning feature film <i>Brother to Brother</i>. The work follows the emotional journey of a young artist who discovers the hidden legacies of gay subculture within the Harlem renaissance.

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/ 18 March 2005

Louder than silence

If you turn the stereo to its maximum volume will you hear nothing as you’ve made silence so loud as to obliterate noise?" Is this question philosophical, metaphorical or literal? Zambian artist Anawana Halowa’s installation <i>Loud Silence</i> somehow manages to skid among a number of questions, observes Alex Sudheim.

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/ 18 March 2005

Kasparov’s end game

Having just won the prestigious Linares tournament in Spain, Garry Kasparov announced that he was quitting professional chess. A colleague asked me what it meant. I said it was the equivalent of Ronaldinho suddenly turning his back on
professional soccer: a genius, the world’s greatest player, unexpectedly packing it in.