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/ 5 November 2004
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Village is an absurd and badly plotted thriller that has sent Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan’s reputation south like dotcom stock, writes Peter Bradshaw.
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/ 5 November 2004
If Internet piracy is hurting Hollywood so much, why is the US box office healthier than ever? Far from destroying the film industry, movie downloading has made it raise its game, exploit its visual advantages, and lower its prices. John Sutherland reports.
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/ 5 November 2004
Rustum Kozain reviews Making the Changes: Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage, which investigates the role and manifestations of jazz in South African literary culture, and South Africa in the Global Imaginary
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/ 5 November 2004
Militia fighters have clashed with former rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) volatile east, forcing at least 2 000 people to flee, officials said on Friday. The fighting erupted on Monday and continued until Wednesday in Bweremana, about 25km from the eastern city of Goma.
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Malawi police arrested eight ruling-party youth militants on Friday in connection with the murder of a prominent, anti-government Muslic cleric two years ago. ”These people are suspects in the murder of Sheikh Bugudad el-Bannh,” police spokesperson Willie Chingalu said.
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Angola’s national oil company, Sonangol, has refused to renew an oil-production licence to France’s Total oil group for offshore fields located in the north of the country, a company spokesperson said on Friday. Total produces 160 000 barrels per day in Angola.
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma could have been involved in some ”peripheries” in the adjudication of South Africa’s arms deal, the Durban High Court heard on Friday. This emerged during the cross-examination of KMPG forensic auditor Johan van der Walt in the fraud and corruption trial of Durban businessman Schabir Shaik.
Court sees Shaik-Zuma loan agreement
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/ 5 November 2004
Beijing hopes the smelly reputation of its public restrooms will be, well, flushed down the toilet soon. City officials will use the 2004 World Toilet Summit, starting on November 17, to showcase efforts to transform the capital’s lavatories from foul to fragrant, from crude to cultured.
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Retail clothing group Truworths has rejected as false and misleading claims made by members of the South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) that it does not support local procurement and manufacturing. Truworths revealed that it is one of the biggest supporters of the country’s clothing and textile sector.
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A letter from an Italian judge, which is apparently strongly critical of the way a South African magistrate has been dealing with the Palazzolo hearings, was handed in to the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday. The court is overseeing the questioning of witnesses whose testimony will be used in alleged Mafioso’s Vito Palazzolo’s trial in absentia in Italy.