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/ 19 December 2003
From his makeup to his music, there is nothing Marilyn Manson likes more than to shock. But behind the pose, has he really got anything to say – and why does he prefer living under Bush? Emma Brockes investigates.
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/ 19 December 2003
Brigitte Mabandla, Minister of Housing — Grade: D
Brigitte Mabandla took office in February and her 10 months in the position have not, perhaps not unreasonably, borne any fruit.
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/ 19 December 2003
I wanted to show that Hendrix wasn’t just a wild man of rock, but an artist of great genius and dignity whose music will outlive us all. Throw away those tinny bootlegs — Jimi Hendrix’s iconic final gigs are about to get a proper release, says Tim Cumming in London.
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/ 19 December 2003
"In the light of current events in Iraq, I wonder if Christopher Hitchens still endorses his argument in this collection of essays — that the US was right to invade Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein? With the last essay published in April 2003, he remains dismissive of the anti-war movement, dwelling rather on the celebration of Saddam’s defeat by Iraqi Americans in Dearborn, Michigan", writes Anthony Egan of <i>Regime Change</i>.
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/ 19 December 2003
Here is a marvelous evocation of the Sixties in the memoirs of one of the USA’s major feminist antiwar activists, writes Anthony Egan of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s memoirs.
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/ 19 December 2003
As the South African government, after deploying so many troops there has discovered, Africa’s Great Lakes region is a complex place. Yet it is a region outsiders have consistently interpreted through fallacious simplification, and myths dressed up as history. Gregory Mthembu-Salter welcomes an insightful historical tome.
On December 11th, 1979, three white activists, Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris, escaped from Pretoria Central Prison, all of them imprisoned for underground work on behalf of the ANC, Their story is one of commitment and self-sacrifice that deserves rereading, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 19 December 2003
How the Iraq war came to pass is the subject of this collection of essays and documents. ‘Instant history’, it went to press as the diplomatic process in the UN’s Security Council came to its ignominious conclusion and the US (together with its handful of allies – called opportunists by some) went to war, writes Anthony Egan, reviewing the latest collection of material on the matter.
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/ 19 December 2003
Denise Ackermann is one of the foremost South African feminist theologians. An Anglican who has taught at various institutions, she is a scholar who has also delved deeply into her own experiences of suffering, of being a woman, being a South African and being white. Anthony Egan looks at her thought-provoking work.
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/ 19 December 2003
Political intolerance has been a hallmark of South African society. Since the transition to democracy in 1994 this has not changed very much. This is the disturbing, yet probably not surprising, finding of poltical scientists Gibson and Gouws. Anthony Egan reviews their review.