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/ 28 July 2001

US tetchy on Zionism/racism issue

STEVE HOLLAND, Washington | Saturday THE United States will boycott a UN conference on race if planners insist on including discussions of equating Zionism with racism and reparations for slavery, the White House said on Friday. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President George W. Bush ”very much wants” the United States to be represented […]

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/ 27 July 2001

Mambety for the people

Between true life and cinema,” said the late Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety, “there is only one step.” Then he added, wryly, “As for me, I’m not sure in which direction that step must be taken.” There seems little that is uncertain, however, about his last film, The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun. And, […]

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/ 27 July 2001

CAPE SQUATTERS ATTEMPT LAND GRAB

ABOUT 200 angry South African shack dwellers on Wednesday occupied a piece of land in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township, emulating a large-scale land invasion outside Johannesburg earlier this month. Police said the squatters moved on to the private land during the afternoon and demanded the government build them houses. The land invaders measured out plots, […]