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/ 26 October 2002
African leaders at a summit on Wednesday chose Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema to coordinate talks between the government and rebels in Côte d’Ivoire, which has been split in two by a month-long uprising.
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/ 25 October 2002
Montreal-based author Yann Martel has won the 000 Man Booker Prize in the most surreal of circumstances, seven days after the organisers mistakenly announced his victory on their website, writes Fiachra Gibbons.
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/ 25 October 2002
Channel O and Yfm both celebrate five years of broadcasting this month, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 25 October 2002
The country’s only national jazz talent search has come to an end. Iain Harris asks if it has it all been worth it?
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/ 25 October 2002
Billed as The Goema Captains, the District Six Band will appear at a fund-raiser hosted by the South African Association of Hong Kong, writes Bruce Kadalie.
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/ 25 October 2002
Photographer Obie Oberholzer is an interesting bunch of guys. He spoke to Shaun de Waal.
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/ 25 October 2002
While I love my country, I have never been so ashamed of it.
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/ 25 October 2002
The dockside slum — largely owned by white landowners — was, until the 1960s, the site of creative, exciting inter-racial and interfaith harmony, which was destroyed by apartheid legislation’s Group Areas Act in the 1960s.
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/ 25 October 2002
I’ve been told that Johannesburg has been built, knocked down, and rebuilt five times since it was founded somewhere around 1886. Not that each wave of construction and destruction happened all at once.
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/ 25 October 2002
Like many other concerned citizens I am very worried about what is going to happen to that clever but largely misunderstood fellow, Tony Leon. So far I haven’t actually lost any sleep over Tony.