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/ 13 February 2004
African Dope Records, the seminal South African independent electronic music label, has just released its latest albums. Andy Davis talks to a new crew of ragga MCs on the record label’s books.
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/ 13 February 2004
Sofia Coppola is the first American woman to receive three Oscar nominations: best film, best director and best screenplay for the film <i>Lost in Translation</i>. But what are the chances of her actually winning, asks Cherry Potter in London.
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/ 13 February 2004
A new book criticising government land reform threatens to strain relations between the government, farmers and agricultural unions, the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Thursday. ”In fact if this book gets out into the general populous I can see racial outbreaks developing between blacks and whites,” said chief land claims commissioner Tozi Gwanya.
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/ 13 February 2004
Harmony Gold mine said on Thursday night that it was hoping to meet with the National Union of Mineworkers on Friday to resolve a wage negotiations deadlock. The company said it was ”willing to meet with the union at any time”.
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/ 13 February 2004
Low wages and unemployment, coupled with high taxes, have forced thousands of qualified Zambians to flee the country in search of greener pastures — but President Levy Mwanawasa is calling them "coward failures". "They failed to make the grade here and have gone to exhibit their inefficiencies outside," he said.
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/ 13 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was flat in noon trade on Friday, with anomalous strength in heavyweights Anglo American and BHP Billiton propping up the market on which dual-listed and resources stocks were for the most part dragged down by a firmer rand.
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/ 13 February 2004
TelkomInternet reported on Friday that it had quarantined 512 325 virus infected email messages since the beginning of February. Of these, 467 174 were infected with the data-destroyer MyDoom virus. The figures reported were marginally higher than those from late January.
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/ 13 February 2004
Zimbabwe’s inflation broke to new levels in January, rising to 622,8% from 598,7% in December 2003, Standard Bank said in its research brief on Thursday. The rise followed a respite in December. The country’s inflation is forever on the rise, and is expected to reach 800% before April.
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/ 13 February 2004
Eight years after being jailed for life for an array of apartheid-era crimes, former policeman Eugene de Kock comes across as a man committed to the South African ideal he formerly fought to suppress. Appearing before a commission probing prison malpractices, he told of his efforts from jail to help improve the country and its people.
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/ 13 February 2004
"One of the perks of my job is the delivery of gadgets and gizmos to my office (unfortunately, I do eventually have to give them back to the suppliers). Enter three products — all apparently designed to empower me to run my business from the local coffee shop or, even more appealingly, from a beach home in Plettenberg Bay, " writes Charlene Carroll.