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/ 18 December 2006
Gaye Davis advises on the Cape Town that lies outside the tourist traps
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/ 18 December 2006
The leader of the biggest Christian faction in Lebanon, General Michel Aoun, who has formed an alliance with the militant Shia group, Hizbullah, said their opposition movement was prepared to set up their own national unity administration if the Western-backed government of Fouad Siniora did not bow to their demands.
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/ 18 December 2006
The ongoing disarray in the South African National Civics Organisation continued this week when the organisation’s national congress was disbanded with no agreement on how to take the paralysed civic movement forward. The congress, which was held at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, was preceded by violence on Tuesday.
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/ 18 December 2006
The assault on the developmentalist university came from the new global development bureaucracy, particularly the Bretton Woods institutions. They were home to a radically different developmentalism. To understand the difference, we need to take two factors into account. For a start, think of the end of colonialism, a development that left a large number of colonial bureaucrats unemployed, writes Mahmood Mamdani.
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/ 18 December 2006
Just a month after the American electorate delivered a resounding rebuff to the Bush Iraq policy, the great and the good — in the guise of the Iraq Study Group — have subjected that policy to a withering critique. The administration has had the political equivalent of a car crash. George W Bush is being routinely condemned as one of the worst presidents ever, writes Martin Jacques.
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/ 18 December 2006
November saw the return of what has now become a regular feature on the Cape calendar — the Kirstenbosch summer concert series. Having missed out on a ticket at Newlands and the chance to see Kemp and Co wreak havoc, I headed on down to lap up the lekker Cape vibe in the South African National Botanical Gardens, writes Angus Duffett.
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/ 18 December 2006
Every year since George W Bush was first inaugurated in 2000, the United States president and South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki have had a conversation. It’s usually by telephone. They are an odd couple: President Bush, a man of the political right, sometimes seeming to be almost determinedly anti-intellectual and President Mbeki, a man of the political left, sometimes almost painfully cerebral.
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/ 18 December 2006
South Africa’s Civil Aviation Authority has denied that the air travel industry could be shut down by a Satawu strike. However, striking workers warned that the strike, which began on Thursday, could jeopardise the safety and security of air travellers. Workers on strike are those who regulate the safety and security of South Africa’s air infrastructure, such as air-worthiness inspectors.
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/ 18 December 2006
Niren Tolsi’s “On the far side of left” (December 8) fails to delve into the events that culminated in the “invasion” of the national meeting of the Social Movements Indaba (SMI) by some members of Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC), writes the SMI national coordinating committee.
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/ 18 December 2006
Everyone knows that a Cape Town holiday requires a tour of the wine routes. Which is why you’ll need Christine Rudman’s expert guide to little-known farms that offer beauty without the crowds.