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/ 19 December 2006
The weekly newspaper market is abuzz with movement from several angles. All eyes are on newcomer <i>The Weekender</i> to see if it will survive this competitive market. Meanwhile, established papers are introducing more and more supplements in a bid to attract readers and advertising. Matebello Motloung reports.
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/ 19 December 2006
Outdoor advertising in Africa, not unlike the continent itself, is defined by its own set of challenges, writes Kim Novick. But outdoor media owners are living up to that challenge and adspend on the rest of the continent has doubled in the past seven years.
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/ 19 December 2006
The true story of Homer’s space odyssey, which inspired October Sky, may leave you with tears in your eyes, says Philip French.
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/ 19 December 2006
Media adventurers are spreading their wings into Africa and undoubtedly reaping the benefits. But why are the explorers among us so few and far between? There is after all a whole continent out there hungry for entertainment and information, writes Fienie Grobler.
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/ 19 December 2006
The last time Saran Sae-eaw saw his family alive, his father was struggling to rescue him, his mother and his siblings from the tsunami that devastated their village nearly two years ago. Saran was the only one his father was able to save. Both the 12-year-old’s parents and his three sisters all perished in the wall of water that killed 5Â 400 in Thailand.
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/ 18 December 2006
Schabir Shaik’s trial was ”unfair” because he was never charged with Jacob Zuma or French arms-manufacturing giant Thint on charges of corruption and fraud, an appeal application filed with the Constitutional Court said on Monday. Shaik was found guilty of two counts of corruption and one of fraud by Judge Hilary Squires in the Durban High Court in July 2005 and was sentenced to 15 years in jail.
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/ 18 December 2006
Aircraft and navy vessels were still searching on Monday for about 100 people who went missing at sea after their boat capsized off northern Senegal, but a naval spokesperson said nobody else had been found. Senegalese fishermen on Saturday rescued 25 of the would-be migrants to Europe, who had been heading for the Canary Islands but turned back because of stormy seas off Morocco.
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/ 18 December 2006
Former CIA director Robert Gates was officially sworn in as United States secretary of defence on Monday, replacing embattled Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, who was under fire for his handling of the Iraq war. Gates was sworn in at 7.03am local time by White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten in the chief of staff’s office, a White House spokesperson said.
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/ 18 December 2006
Two explosions hit Nigeria’s oil industry on Monday, industry sources said, moments after a militant group threatened to detonate three car bombs in the Niger Delta. There were no casualties reported in either explosion and no immediate impact on oil output from the world’s eighth largest exporter. The first explosion was from an apparent car bomb.
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/ 18 December 2006
South Africa on Monday called uncapped spinner Paul Harris into their squad for the next two Tests against India, in Durban from December 26 and Cape Town from January 2. Harris, who played eight county championship matches for Warwickshire this year, has replaced fellow slow left-armer Nicky Boje, who announced his retirement from international cricket last week.