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/ 18 October 2002
<i>Peace Angel</i> can be found in five locales in the United States, in Russia, Bosnia, Mexico, Israel, Vietnam, India, China and Iraq, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 18 October 2002
Kobus! have become the unsuspecting yet willing ambassadors of the Afrikaans renaissance in music, writes Jason Curtis.
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/ 18 October 2002
Award-winning author Zakes Mda has published a new novel. He spoke to Nicole Temkin.
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/ 18 October 2002
<b>Review: </b><i>Ted Hughes: the Life of a Poet</i>
by Elaine Feinstein
(Orion)
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/ 18 October 2002
On the afternoon of June 3 1998, I spent a few hours in the company of an extraordinary man. It was the first and only time I met him. Listening to him speak I became aware of a formidable mind with access to wide experience.
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/ 18 October 2002
The career of former Rhodesian prime minister Sir Garfield Todd who died on Sunday, aged 94, spanned half a century of dramatic change in Central Africa. Todd, who was described variously as a flamboyant autocrat, a dangerous liberal and the nation’s conscience.
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/ 18 October 2002
The IDC has been in touch with the World Bank and IMF over the funding of black empowerment in South Africa’s mining industry. The move is likely to prove controversial within the ruling alliance, many of whose members accuse the bank and IMF of undermining Third World development.
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/ 18 October 2002
Jim Tukane wears a warm smile as he stands in his wheat field with the ripening ears reaching up beyond his belly. His battered old tractor groans into sight. "The tractor must rest for 15 minutes at the end of each row and drink five litres of water," he says.
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/ 18 October 2002
One might think from the hullabaloo around the maize deal announced by the government last week that the problems of rising staple food prices have been solved at a stroke. This is very far from true — indeed some commentators see the announcement as little more than a public relations exercise.