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/ 19 September 2003
The last Lesotho Queen Mother, Queen Mamohato Bereng Seeiso, was laid to rest at Roman Catholic cemetery at St Louis Mission in Matsieng, south of Maseru on Friday. Thousands of Basotho mourners attended the funeral service.
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/ 19 September 2003
The section of the tobacco law dealing with the allocation of smoking areas in public places is about to face its first test in court. The summons followed a complaint from the anti-smoking pressure group the Tobacco Control Board.
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/ 19 September 2003
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>Pirates of the Caribbean </i>is a reckless, relentless romp from start to finish. It doesn’t even feel like two and a quarter hours long. Buckle your swash, shiver your timbers, and set sail, advises Shaun de Waal.
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/ 19 September 2003
<b>CD of the week:</b>
Ashton Nyte:<i> Sinister Swing </i>
One can rely on local singer and songwriter Ashton Nyte to come up with something creative on his albums. He is constantly and subtly altering his sound, though it remains rooted in the dark realm of gothic music that shot his successful first endeavour, <i>The Awakening</i>, to fame, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 19 September 2003
By now JM Coetzee’s fiction oeuvre is so well established that it cannot but be a matrix through which any new contribution is read. This reading the new through the old seems to do a disservice to such a writer, writes Derek Hook of his impressions of <i>Elizabeth Costello.</i>
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/ 19 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s sole independent daily, closed by the government a week ago, was still off the newsstands on Friday as police failed to comply with a High Court order to allow the paper to resume operations, a newspaper official said.
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/ 19 September 2003
Executives at some of the best-known internet names — Amazon and Ebay — have shot up the rankings of the super rich, according to an annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans published today.
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/ 19 September 2003
The International Monetary Fund yesterday warned that the colossal United States trade deficit was a noose around the neck of the economy, emphasising that the once mighty dollar could collapse at any moment.
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/ 19 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki has appointed former Supreme Court of Appeal president Judge Josephus Johannes Francois Hefer to chair the commission of inquiry into allegations of spying made against National Director of Public Prosecutions head Bulelani Ngcuka.
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/ 19 September 2003
Undertakers in Harare are apparently doing a thriving trade renting out corpses to would-be fuel queue jumpers. There are no reports of arrests and prosecutions for this macabre practice. But then again, since everything else is so haywire in Mugabeland, maybe this is perfectly legal.