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/ 7 November 2003
In the few weeks before its fall, Iraq’s Ba’athist regime made a series of increasingly desperate peace offers to Washington, promising to hold elections and even to allow US troops to search for banned weapons. But the advances were all rejected by the Bush administration, according to intermediaries involved in the talks.
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/ 7 November 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma says French arms manufacturer Thales has denied the existence of a note alleged to reveal that he tried to solicit a half-a-million-rand-a-year bribe from the company.
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/ 7 November 2003
Walter Senoko, the man whose R1-million payment to Mpumalanga politician Steve Mabona we exposed last week, obtained an interdict in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday preventing the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> from publishing certain follow-up information.
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/ 7 November 2003
In a globalising world, insecurity anywhere is a threat to security everywhere. In this context, it is with pride that I observe Mbeki trumpeting the principles of good governance enshrined in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad). However, this pride is quickly replaced with despair when the realisation hits that Nepad is heavy on rhetoric and light on substance.
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/ 7 November 2003
Film Festival junkies will be pleased to hear that after the recent smorgasbord of festivals on offer, there is something remaining. Pack your bags because we are less than seven days away from Sithengi, Africa’s biggest film and television marketplace, writes Brian Paseka Letlhabane.
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/ 7 November 2003
Artists are often called upon to donate their creativity to some worthy cause. Yesterday it was a benefit concert for those who failed to get a 4×4 out of the arms deal. Today it will be poetry evening for people living with spies. In the freebie charity stakes artists must be the most called upon professionals, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 7 November 2003
A company connected to Mpumalanga minister for public works Steve Mabona got a multimillion-rand contract from his department — as did other companies associated with a Mabona relative. These contracts raise new conflict-of-interest questions about Mabona, whom the <i>M&G</i> last week showed to have received R1-million from another contractor to his department.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23202">If at first you don’t succeed…</a>
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/ 7 November 2003
For more than a year the Scorpions kept their investigation of Deputy President Jacob Zuma a tightly controlled secret. When, in November last year, I finally managed to lay my hands on court papers I had been seeking, I was unaware just how explosive they would be, writes Sam Sole, 2003 Vodacom Journalist of the Year.
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/ 7 November 2003
By the mid-1960s, John Boorman was a young prospect being watched in the new British film industry. Boorman didn’t go to university, or was ever apprenticed in the theatre. But his work in television had shown an ability to transform routine magazine programmes with the fresh air of real, awkward lives, writes David Thomson.
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/ 7 November 2003
Patricia Schonstein is a poet and the prize-winning author of <i>Skyline</i>, a novel about African refugees. Her new novel, <i>A Time of Angels</i> (Bantam), is a magical-realist tale of the supernatural and the universal themes that continue to preoccupy humankind — love, war, betrayal, good and evil.