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/ 6 February 2004
A suspected suicide bomb attack in the Moscow subway killed at least 39 people and injured more than 120 early on Friday, five weeks before President Vladimir Putin stands for re-election. Witnesses spoke of carnage after a bomb ripped through a crowded subway car during morning rush hour.
Blast ‘linked to Putin’s policies’
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/ 6 February 2004
Warrick Sony is, in many ways, the godfather of electronic music in South Africa. No surprises, then, that release number 11 for African Dope Records is the new Kalahari Surfers album, <i>Muti Media</i>. Andy Davis dispenses the Qs and Sony the As.
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/ 6 February 2004
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Despite the implications of the title, <i>21 Grams</i> is not a film about drugs or drug-dealing. Instead, it is a film about loss, so complex and intricate that it is difficult to convey the basic narrative points without giving away everything. Alan Swerdlow weighs it up.
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/ 6 February 2004
Aids campaigners in South Africa are worried about the apparent lack of progress in implementing a plan to distribute anti-retroviral drugs to millions of people living with the disease. More than 600 people die every day from Aids-related illnesses in South Africa, according to HIV/Aids support groups.
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/ 6 February 2004
After eight days of weakness, the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) bounced into the black on Friday on the back of a weaker rand, which boosted heavyweight dual-listed stocks. At midday the rand was last trading at R7,05 per dollar, from R6,89 when the JSE closed on Thursday.
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/ 6 February 2004
It was about two minutes long, some off-the-cuff comments made in a BBC domestic radio programme at six in the morning. Eventually, so inflated by spin and the media, this short broadcast became the reason the BBC lost its director general, the chairperson of its board of governors and the journalist who made the comments. How long this cull will continue is anyone’s guess. The BBC is said to be in a state of ”meltdown”.
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/ 6 February 2004
Bafana Bafana were humiliated … no, they were gutted at the African Cup of Nations in Tunisia. An early exit was expected by the South African public, but not a disgraceful one. For the players this was the saddest day in their lives, while for the soccer supporters it is what they had hoped for in order to drill it into the South African Football Association (Safa) administrators that they are failing to run the game of billions in the country.
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/ 6 February 2004
Having starred for the past five years in the Oscar-nominated movie, Lost in his Portfolio, the minister formerly known as the arts and culture ambassador, has ridden off into the sunset to the land of the rising sun. Tokyo will now have its Little Ben, writes Mike Van Graan.
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/ 6 February 2004
Is Sting trying to stay forever young? When listening to his latest album, Sacred Love (Universal), one gets the impression that he’s trying to be with it by dashing bits of fashionable genres into his music to win over new (and young) fans while trying to prove to the Sting faithful that he’s still the man, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 6 February 2004
Acclaimed rock supergroup Limp Bizkit, famous for their heady mix of hip-hop and metal, on Tuesday announced the postponement of their South African tour, which had been due to start in Cape Town on April 2. Riaan Wolmarans reports.