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/ 12 November 2004
Amid a flurry of negative comments about the consortium led by Andile Ngcaba that is proposing to buy a 15,1% stake in Telkom from Thintana, telecommunications firm DataPro Group on Friday came out in support of the deal. However, DataPro is concerned about Smuts Ngonyama’s involvement.
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/ 12 November 2004
Men’s advocacy groups throughout the United States are up in arms over a television commercial for cellphones that portrays fathers as dumb and dispensable. It shows a father perplexed by his small daughter’s homework before being humiliated and dispatched from the kitchen by the exasperated child and mother.
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/ 12 November 2004
With the unprecedented feast of South African feature films about to show at the World Cinema Film festival next week, the local film industry is booming. But we must critically examine the fundamentals to ensure that we build a sustainable industry, writes Joel Phiri.
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/ 12 November 2004
Richard Dawkins’s tale of evolution embodies a twist: he tells the story backwards, starting with us. Casting himself as a pilgrim, we journey with him through time to meet our "concestors" (Dawkins’s neat neologism for common ancestor). Matt Ridley reviews.
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/ 12 November 2004
Redd-Angel, formerly a duo, is now just one man — but he is conquering the world all by himself, writes Nadia Neophytou.
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/ 12 November 2004
Rebel Hong Kong lawmaker ”Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung hailed a victory for ”common sense” on Friday after he won his battle to wear T-shirts to the territory’s legislative council meetings. Leung, known for his trademark waist-length hair and Che Guevara T-shirt, said the decision is a sign that the ”old empire” is gone.
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/ 12 November 2004
A homeless teenager who hid in the landing gear of a passenger plane survived a 700km flight across south-western China, but his companion fell and probably died, state media reported on Friday. The 14-year-old boy was found by airport porters after the plane landed.
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/ 12 November 2004
The Department of Home Affairs has again come under the spotlight with the arrest of an ”illegal agent” caught issuing legitimate documents, Pretoria police said on Friday. ”Top-level discussions will be held with the Department of Home Affairs to find what the problem is,” said police spokesperson Captain Piletji Sebola.
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/ 12 November 2004
Despite criticism he is beholden to the interests of big business, recently re-elected United States President George Bush appears to have driven a strong, principled and effective pro-Africa policy, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. ”There are aspects of the Bush presidency that deserve a closer look,” Leon states in his weekly newsletter.
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/ 12 November 2004
The government is being misled into believing the minibus taxi recapitalisation programme will work before it is tested, the Top Six Taxi Management said on Friday. ”There is no doubt that the government is being misled into believing the project will be implemented without a pilot run,” said a Top Six spokesperson.