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/ 22 October 2004
Adverse weather conditions continued to delay the start of oil-transfer operations from the BBC China, the cargo vessel stranded off the Eastern Cape Coast, authorities said on Friday. The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said the ship has about 120 tonnes of oil on board.
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/ 22 October 2004
Below-normal rainfall is likely until February next year, Rand Water said on Friday. It said the Vaal Dam is 37% full. Under normal conditions, a 37% water level would not be a problem. The South African Weather Service, however, has warned that rainfall will be below average over the next four months.
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/ 22 October 2004
Kenya pulled off what some might view as an unexpected feat this week by improving its standing in Transparency International’s annual corruption perceptions index. Every year, the Berlin-based NGO ranks several countries according to the levels of corruption that are perceived to exist in their public sectors.
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/ 22 October 2004
While examining the dynamics of marriages and parent-child relationships, Maja Kriel skilfully evokes the lives of three generations of a South African Jewish family. Jane Rosenthal reviews.
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/ 22 October 2004
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> What a weird movie. <i>The Forgotten</i> starts out as a heartbreaking melodrama, then morphs into an FBI-conspiracy/cop thriller, becomes an outsiders-on-the-run road movie, before suddenly going all <i>X-Files</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 22 October 2004
Ahmed Kathrada’s <i>Memoirs</i> is a tribute to decency and the desire for justice that drove a generation of activists, the likes of whom we shall probably not see again, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 22 October 2004
The Durban High Court heard on Friday that Deputy President Jacob Zuma accompanied Nkobi group director Schabir Shaik on a visit to Malaysia in 1995. This is according to a report by forensics expert Johan van der Walt from the KPMG accounting and auditing firm.
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/ 22 October 2004
Hot on the heels of <i>Cape Town 2am</i> is Ready Rolled’s newest compilition — <i>Cafe Melville: Afrikan Time</i>. Richer-sounding and more rewarding than the glut of slapped-together "chill" albums available these days, Riaan Wolmarans gives it a thumbs-up.
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/ 22 October 2004
Studded with great tale tellers like Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Woody Allen, contributing author Nadine Gordimer talks about a remarkable anthology she edited, which will benefit those living with HIV/Aids.
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/ 22 October 2004
An impressive number and range of people pitched up at the conference. They were business people; city officials and politicians; informal traders; cultural activists; tourism types and the odd international tourist who was simply following the crowd to see what all the fuss was about. Mike van Graan was there.