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<b>CDs of the week:</b>
<i>Various:</i> Exile on Blues Street; Blues on Blonde on Blonde
The blues, in one way or another, underlie an awful lot of popular music, so it’s no surprise that someone has thought of doing blues versions of the songs of The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan — both draw meaningfully and powerfully on that tradition, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 12 September 2003
A veteran of unusual protests rolled a nut to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s doorstep with his nose on Friday, completing a 11,2km journey across London aimed at highlighting the issue of student debt. His journey took 11 days.
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/ 12 September 2003
A constitutional challenge is to be launched in the Zimbabwe Supreme Court over the arrest, imprisonment and trial of Benjamin Paradza, a High Court judge of that country, the General Bar Council of South Africa said on Friday.
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/ 12 September 2003
The world is short of about ,5-billion a year to effectively maintain its existing system of national parks, according to a study released by a team of international experts at the World Parks Congress in Durban. Among those hardest hit by the shortfall are some African parks, where the situation is described as ”perilous”.
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/ 12 September 2003
Wild Coast communities who own one of the world’s most important conservation ”hot spots” are signing a multimillion-rand ecotourism deal, effectively edging out mining interests in the region. The Mkambati Land Trust has approved the development of lodges by top-end ecotourism operators.
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/ 12 September 2003
The New National Party has come out with guns blazing against the proposed ministerial committee to investigate the allegation that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid-era spy. The announcement of the committee probe was made by Minister of Justice Penuell Maduna on Thursday.
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/ 12 September 2003
Three Boeremag treason trialists lost yet another bid in the Pretoria High Court on Friday to be freed on bail. Acting Judge Lyzette Meyer said the three had failed to prove that exceptional circumstances existed to warrant their release on bail.
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/ 12 September 2003
How much more proof will be necessary to show that the initials ANC no longer stand for African National Congress? It’s been but nine short years since the Union Buildings became head office to our bold new government, but quite enough time for the ANC, like some insect, to slough off its older and politically shapely exoskeleton, to metamorphose. ANC now stands for the Association of Nepotists and Cronyism.
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/ 12 September 2003
South African healthcare company Network Healthcare Holdings has been selected as the likely preferred bidder for two new treatment centres in the United Kingdom worth around R1,4-billion. The group was up against some of the best global health care players and fierce competition.
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/ 12 September 2003
John Ritter, whose portrayal of the bumbling but lovable Jack Tripper helped make the television comedy series Three’s Company a smash hit in the 1970s, has died. Country music legend Johnny Cash also passed away on Friday in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 71.