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/ 15 December 2006
At 53 years old Johnny Clegg is now a seasoned performer and his first album in four years, <i>One Life</i>, shows he is still a potent force in South African music, writes Jeremy Kuper.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Rainbow celebrates 25 years of jazz music, protest and beer, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 15 December 2006
There is method in the seemingly mad decision by Orlando Pirates not to participate in next year’s Confederation of African Football Champions League: each time they do well in the continental competition, they suffer domestically. But will withdrawing from the competition do any favours for Southern African soccer?
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/ 15 December 2006
Landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island killed 17 people on Friday, most of them worshippers in a mosque, a rescue official said. Satria Arjuna, chief of the emergency team in the area, said workers were searching for 11 more people missing after the landslides struck two villages in the remote area of western Sumatra.
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/ 15 December 2006
Southern Africa, the epicentre of the Aids epidemic, on Thursday agreed to look at male circumcision to fight the pandemic in the wake of reports that it could halve the risk of males contracting HIV. The Southern African Development Community said it will develop an HIV-prevention strategy that will be released early next year.
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/ 15 December 2006
South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon was sworn in on Thursday as the next United Nations Secretary General at a General Assembly ceremony during which he vowed to be "a harmoniser and bridge-builder" and build on the legacy of the incumbent, Kofi Annan. The 62-year-old South Korean is to take up his post officially on January 1.
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/ 15 December 2006
Ethiopia’s brutal former president Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was this week convicted of genocide, is an unwelcome guest in Zimbabwe and must be extradited to face justice, the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change said on Thursday.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) decided on Thursday to enlarge its membership for the first time in 30 years by admitting African producer Angola, a decision aimed at reinforcing the cartel’s grip on world oil resources. Angola was one of three possible new members waiting to join Opec.
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/ 15 December 2006
It’s no secret that Italians are passionate people — they’re passionate about their food, their family, their culture and, most importantly, their cars. They are proud to the point of obstinance — try to disagree with Italians about anything that has come out of their country (including the Mafia) and they’ll argue with you until you give up out of sheer exasperation.
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/ 15 December 2006
Botswana’s government on Thursday grudgingly accepted a High Court order to allow the country’s last hunter-gatherers to live in their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, but attached tough conditions likely to frustrate the return. The court on Wednesday said the Basarwa were wrongly forced off the land.