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IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has warned that South Africa is "an embryonic one-party state" and unless voters in 2004 are given an alternative there will be further consolidation of ANC central-government power. The parties appear to be heading towards a formal cooperation pact ahead of the 2004 poll.
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/ 12 September 2003
At its "watershed" eighth national conference next week, the two million-member Cosatu will launch a programme aimed at putting the working class in the driving seat of the transformation process. A congress document penned explicitly attacks "high-level ANC members" on the right of the party who "side with capital".
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/ 12 September 2003
A committee tasked with determining whether or not the names of apartheid-era spies be released into the public domain has yet to open 34 boxes of evidence from TRC hearings covering submissions from the ANC and the former apartheid government on spies.
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/ 12 September 2003
The African National Congress (ANC) said on Friday it was ”outraged” by the Israeli government’s insistence that it would eventually remove Palestinian President Yasser Arafat from the occupied territories.
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/ 12 September 2003
This year’s Venice Film Festival satisfied an array of tastes and left some wanting, according to Peter Bradshaw and Derek Malcolm who gave a thumbs up for Bernardo Bertalucci’s The Dreamers.
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/ 12 September 2003
Many of Anand Patwardhan’s films were at one time or another banned by state TV channels in India and became the subject of litigation by Patwardhan who successfully challenged the rulings in court. He takes the stand today to answer Vinetia Govender’s questions.
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/ 12 September 2003
Increasingly, we live in a world where the glut of published literature makes finding the work of genuinely talented young writers extremely difficult, especially for the person in the street. Britain’s most successful literary magazine provides a wealth of good reading, writes Louise Bennetts.
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/ 12 September 2003
Delving into a range of new fiction, Shirley Kossick looks at two books that explore effects of colonialism against backdrops of soaring and Australian and New Zealand landscapes, as well as a reflection of lost culture set in 1879 Natal, a reflection on the experiences of indentured Indian sugar-cane labourers.
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/ 12 September 2003
Director Patwardhan provides an upfront, passionate and personal critique of the phenomenon of "nuclear nationalism" and its manifestation in Indian society — especially in the lives and homes of the poor and downtrodden, writes Vinetia Govender, reviewing <i>War and Peace</i>.
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/ 12 September 2003
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> DreamWorks’s new animated adventure, <i>Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas</i> is very well done — as far as I could tell in the appalling conditions of one of the big cinemas at Hyde Park Nu Metro. The film was out of focus throughout, it was too dim, and the sound was too soft, observed Shaun de Waal.