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/ 10 October 2003
"I dreamed there was a helicopter flying, flying, and it went straight for my head. A bomb fell. The people around me — all of them — died. And the police came and they told me to take the corpses and stack them". Poppy Buthelezi had this recurring nightmare after she was shot in the back on June 16 1976, the first day of the Soweto uprising.
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/ 10 October 2003
The mantle of Britain’s Greatest Living Novelist settled on Martin Amis young and has grated and gratified ever since. The sneering young man is older, wiser. But when it comes to plot, he’s driving harder than ever, Emma Brockes in London.
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/ 10 October 2003
Kebble has set the bar. Whether he’ll jump over it or spend time behind it remains to be seen. But it is time for other individuals to step forward as patrons of the arts, comments Mike van Graan following the Brett Kebble Arts Awards.
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/ 10 October 2003
The apparent discrimination by most medical schemes towards people suffering from psychiatric disorders is a cause for concern, the South African Society of Psychiatrists (Sasop) said on Friday.
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/ 10 October 2003
A senior journalist for Zimbabwe’s Financial Gazette, Cyril Zenda, has reported to the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) that he was robbed and attacked by a vigilante group in Harare last week. Zenda told MISA-Zimbabwe that he was spotted by a vigilante group known as Chipangano when he got off a bus at the main bus terminus in Harare.
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/ 10 October 2003
Workers in Rome were busy dividing up a 170-year-old granite obelisk on Friday ahead of its return to its place of origin in Ethiopia. The Axum Obelisk, originally a tomb monument, was looted by Benito Mussolini’s troops in 1937, during the Fascist occupation.
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/ 10 October 2003
He goes simply as Jay, believes that "reading is a soul thing", and is the young author of <i>A Man Called Stan</i> (iUniverse). This novel moves back and forth through the life of the titular Stan, from his youth and first sexual experiences to his "mid-life crisis", old age and death.
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/ 10 October 2003
Von Holdt has produced a book that will probably become a classic of labour history. Detailed yet never boring, it is carefully constructed and well-research-ed. Some may object that it is one-sided (from the workers’ point of view) but he can hardly be faulted for the unwillingness of many in management or the white unions to talk to him. Anthony Egan reviews.
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/ 10 October 2003
South African audiences had much to fear from the spectre of a bunch of Americans coming to film the André Stander story. That <i>Stander</i> turned out to be a thoughtful, respectful, even haunting film is due, one senses, to the integrity and perfectionism of the director, Bronwen Hughes, writes Sharon Bezuidenhout.
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/ 10 October 2003
The South African rand was steady against major currencies in late morning trade on Friday in a flow-driven market. Currency traders said that while offshore demand for dollars was being seen, exporter sales would likely prevent the rand from weakening too much and expected it to be range bound for the rest of the
day.