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/ 12 December 2003
There has been a massive strengthening in community radio in South Africa in the past decade. Surprising in a non-profit sector that struggles for sustainable income. Community radio is on the rise, but is the country ready for it? Penny Flascas lends an ear.
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/ 12 December 2003
The first black woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison’s new novel, <i>Love</i>, explores the changes wrought by the American civil-rights movement and continues her engagement with love and history. Maya Jaggi reports.
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/ 12 December 2003
South African paper and pulp group Mondi, wholly owned by Anglo American, on Thursday unveiled the country’s first paper and packaging empowerment deal with MCI Resources, led by Cyril Ramaphosa and James Motlatsi. After the conclusion of the deal, empowerment groupings will have a 10% stake in Mondi South Africa.
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/ 12 December 2003
Johannesburg political parties on Thursday unanimously supported the awarding of the freedom of the city to the city’s most famous resident, Nelson Mandela. ”They gave the executive mayor (Amos Masondo) a clear mandate to approach the former president,” city spokesperson Nthatisi Modingoane said.
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/ 12 December 2003
Bush Radio’s education programme Alkemy tackles real life through hip-hop. Adam Haupt reports.
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/ 12 December 2003
For one brief month there was a radio station in Cape Town worth listening to. But by the time you read this article it is nothing more than the cackle and hiss of static over dead air. Spectrum 91.3 was Cape Town’s newest and most short-lived radio station, writes Andy Davis.
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/ 12 December 2003
Radio 702 outdid its tabloid instincts last week by giving air time to loony-tunes theories on the cause of the 1987 Helderberg air disaster. Sixteen years after the event, someone called Brian Watkins, once a minor SAA functionary, has stepped forward with a selection of rumour, hearsay and gossip — all apparently acquired about seventh hand
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/ 12 December 2003
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Thursday asked which version of events at this weekend’s Commonwealth meeting was correct — the version put out by the South African Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on behalf of the Southern African Development Community or British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s account to his House of Commons (Parliament).
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/ 12 December 2003
A mere formality awaits Judge Hefer when he draws the curtain on the R3-million inquiry next week.
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/ 12 December 2003
After slashing interest rates by a merry-making 5% for the year, Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni took the fizz out of the good times with a meagre 0,5% rate cut on Thursday, bringing the repo rate to 8%.