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/ 26 November 2004
Off-key: They sing for presidents. They dine with ambassadors. But our self-appointed opera royalty do suffer a bad review now and then. Even if they have to go all the way to London to get it, observes Mike van Graan.
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/ 26 November 2004
From the time the station registered 5,6-million listeners two years ago, Metro FM has been a stagnating monolith rather than a thriving giant. Don’t expect anything out of the ordinary at this weekend’s Metro FM Music Awards, warns Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 26 November 2004
<i>The Number</i> is dubbed "One man’s search for identity in the Cape underworld and prison gangs." Jonny Steinberg’s life story of a career gangster makes a distant madness very human. He spoke to Matthew Krouse about writing his latest novel.
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/ 26 November 2004
Former South African president Nelson Mandela met British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London on Friday to discuss the British leader’s personal project to spearhead development activities in Africa. Mandela, 86, had an hour of discussions with Blair at Downing Street on Friday morning, a spokesperson for the prime minister’s office told reporters.
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/ 26 November 2004
One of the more unusual medals awarded during World War II — given to a carrier pigeon parachuted into occupied France alongside British agents — is to be sold, auctioneers said on Friday. Commando the pigeon was awarded the Dickin Medal, of which only 60 have ever been handed out, after bringing back secret information strapped to his leg on three missions.
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/ 26 November 2004
President Thabo Mbeki took issue with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday over statements he made earlier this week. ”Rational discussion about how the ANC decides its policies requires some familiarity with the internal procedures of the ANC, rather than gratuitous insults about our members,” Mbeki said.
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/ 26 November 2004
Rented office space which was unoccupied by the South African National Aids Trust for 18 months has cost the state R792Â 000, according to national Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. She said legal possession of the Pretoria building had been taken on March 1 2003 but the building had only been physically occupied on September 1 2004.
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/ 26 November 2004
All that’s disgusting, sticky and foul-smelling about the human body and how it functions make for an unusual but educational museum visit for children in Paris.
"Crad’expo employs the vocabulary of young children to describe flatulence, faeces and urination for example, "to dare to speak of things that one does not usually speak of", organiser Perrine Wyplosz told reporters.
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/ 26 November 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange charged to a record high on Friday, fuelled by positive sentiment towards equities. The bourse was ignoring the rand and world markets and seemed to have taken on a life of its own. By noon, the all share index was up 0,94% at 12 514,730 after earlier touching 12 525,180.
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/ 26 November 2004
South Africa’s third quarter 2004 gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to increased to a median forecast of 4,9% on a quarter-on-quarter seasonally adjusted annualised basis from 3,9% in the second quarter, according to a survey of economists. The range of forecasts is from 3,8% to 6,2%.