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/ 22 December 2006
Pratibha Thaker looks at the shining lights and the hot spots in sub-Saharan Africa for 2007
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/ 22 December 2006
The Durban International Film Festival turns 21 this year, and as a birthday treat the festival organisers have laid on a feast of 45 films from the four corners of the earth, writes Alex Sudheim.
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/ 22 December 2006
HIV/Aids is probably the greatest challenge facing our schools and the country at large. We are a Catholic institution, and we are aware that the pandemic is among us and there is no denying it. So, as a community, we have the responsibility to educate and inform the school community about the disease, writes Pearl Matlou.
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/ 22 December 2006
As Aids continues to reap a grim toll among South Africans in their prime, life insurers are being forced to re-evaluate the products and services they offer. ”HIV is not a death sentence anymore,” said David Patient, among the first to take out life cover with new company AllLife, which caters exclusively for HIV-positive people traditionally shunned by long-term insurers.
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/ 22 December 2006
Czechs have launched an ”anti-Santa” campaign against the white-bearded usurper they fear is edging out the infant Jesus or ”Jezisek”, the traditional bearer of seasonal gifts for centuries. ”I do not have any wish to see a fat man dragging a bag at Christmas. I want to retain my own vision of the infant Jesus,” said the founder of the campaign, Prague publicity agency manager, Petr Vlasak.
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/ 22 December 2006
Who won the 2006 Nobel Literature Prize? Which 29-year-old South African singer died in a car crash in September? Where was Annanias Mathe, the C-Max prison escapee, captured? Try our quiz of 101 questions to see how many of the year’s events you can recall.
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/ 21 December 2006
Mail & Guardian book reviewers single out the best books they read in 2006.
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/ 21 December 2006
From a vantage point among the dilapidated grass-thatched huts in the Yafele village, one could not help but marvel at the massive show of grandeur at the nearby Goromonzi High school. From chauffer-driven Mercedes Benz saloons to the latest SUVs from Japan, they were all part of the show of affluence that disturbed the tranquil environs of this rural setting.