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/ 15 December 2006
Here’s a useful list of travel, holiday and entertainment Web sites for Southern Africa. You’ll note that Cape Town hogs the list:
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/ 15 December 2006
Theatre Fresh from the recent National Arts Festival, Jo’burg production Ways of Dying has opened as part of the Market Theatre’s new season. Lara Foot Newton’s inventive stage adaptation of Zakes Mda’s novel is a powerful affirmation of the commonality of human experience and the universal healing power of love. Undoubtedly the most acclaimed work […]
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/ 15 December 2006
The Caroline Cullinan calendar is back by popular demand, published by the Mail & Guardian. Celebrating the final year of Nelson Mandela’s presidency, the 1999 calendar features six full-colour images echoing themes from Mandela’s inaugural speech.
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/ 15 December 2006
While customers in Tshwane are browsing and downloading to their hearts’ content, residents within the eThekwini municipality can expect a service that will offer broadband access and domestic voice calls for as little as R150 a month. The race to deliver cheaper broadband and telephony services to residents via municipal net works is alive and kicking.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Botswana High Court’s ruling in favour of the Bushmen who were forcibly removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, means that more than 1Â 000 displaced people can return immediately to their ancestral land. "It is their constitutional right to go back as soon as they like," said lawyer Gordon Bennett, who represented 239 applicants in the matter.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Basilica San Paolo, also known as St Paul’s Outside the Walls, slumbers in marble splendour in an attractively shabby southern suburb of Rome. Graffiti-illuminated trains rattle and roar past its imposing cloister walls, and elderly harpies in heels goad tiny, furry martyrs resentful motion across the wide common at its rear that runs down towards the Tiber.
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/ 15 December 2006
The price of uranium has quietly, in a behind-the-scenes kind of way, soared elevenfold since 2000, having reached $63 a pound from about $7 previously, according to uranium industry watchers UX Consulting. Analysts believe it could reach $70 a pound next year. The metal is not traded on the open market and only spot prices are available.
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/ 15 December 2006
While there have been concerns raised about South African listed companies being gobbled up by international private equity firms, the good news is that should these take-outs go ahead, there will be a R50-billion cash injection into the JSE. On the back of an announcement of Consol’s delisting, it is estimated that there are a further four companies that are in negotiations with private equity firms.
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/ 15 December 2006
”It is illegal for foreigners to leave their hotels without their passports! The hotel lied to you by telling you to put them in the safe, and now you are in big trouble!” he shrieked. Mail & Guardian journalist Nicole Johnston and photographer Oupa Nkosi get taken for a ride by corrupt cops in Maputo.
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/ 15 December 2006
The revised black empowerment laws are a grey affair. The much-debated “once empowered always empowered” principle has been retained but amended to ensure that some wealth is transferred before black investors can sell. As most empowerment deals include debt financing, allowing investors to sell all or some of their shareholding would enable them to use gains in the share price to pay off loans and unlock value.