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/ 21 November 2003
<b>CD of the week:</b>
Dido:<i> Life for Rent</i>
It would be nice to report that Dido’s second album, <i>Life for Rent</i> (Arista), is strong enough to reveal her detractors as snobs. Sadly, it proves a little more complicated than that, writes Alexis Petridis.
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/ 21 November 2003
The Afda Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance Festival showcases hot new talent, writes Brian Paseka Letlhabane.
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/ 21 November 2003
Spring 2003, and the jackboot of rugby tramps unchecked across five continents. The World Cup has ground into its eighth week, and still there is no sign of a second front. The Inglisch have swept all before them from Calais to Moscow. The forces of civilisation need a miracle. And so does Private Rudolph.
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/ 21 November 2003
Mo Shaik on Thursday told the Hefer commission that he would be happy to concede he had been wrong about Bulelani Ngcuka, as long as he could be shown to be wrong.
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/ 21 November 2003
At the end of his testimony this week Maharaj told the Mail & Guardian that he had overwhelming grassroots support in the ANC.
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/ 21 November 2003
South Africa’s International Marketing Council, which has been given the task of promoting a positive international image for the country through an international marketing campaign, will spend about R50-million a year, according to Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad.
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/ 21 November 2003
Knocked by a stronger rand, pay television network M-Net reported a 97 cent loss per share for the six months ended September, compared with a headline profit of 24,4 cents a share for the previous comparable half-year. Advertising revenues also remained under pressure, mainly due to a declining analogue subscriber base.
Mac Maharaj tragically pawned his legacy as a leader of the struggle.
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/ 21 November 2003
A magistrate freed 52 people, including 14 labour leaders, two days after their arrest during nationwide demonstrations against President Robert Mugabe’s autocratic rule and the country’s economic hardships.
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/ 21 November 2003
Rockets apparently fired from donkey carts slammed into Iraq’s Oil Ministry and two hotels used by United States workers and foreign journalists in downtown Baghdad on Friday morning, causing limited damage. At least one man was injured. One rocket hit the Palestine hotel and another hit the next-door Sheraton.