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/ 13 December 2006
Dance ’99 mines a rich and defiant strain of contemporary local choreography, reports Charl Blignaut.
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/ 13 December 2006
A Paris-based theatre troupe will bring culture to the streets of Soweto during Arts Alive. Luvuyo Kakaza reports.
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/ 13 December 2006
The streets of Johannesburg will be alive with the sounds of music, theatre and dance when the city’s annual Arts Alive festival opens this week for the month of September. Nicky Blumenfeld reports.
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/ 12 December 2006
Suspected insurgents set off two bombs in a main square of central Baghdad where scores of Iraqis were waiting for jobs as day labourers on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people and wounding more than 235, police said. The carefully coordinated attack in Tayaran Square at 7am local time involved a parked car bomb and a suicide attacker.
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/ 12 December 2006
Land claims can be settled by the Land Claims Commission without ministerial approval in order to speed up the restitution process, the commission said on Tuesday. Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Lulama Xingwana has delegated her powers to the chief land claims commissioner and regional land claims commissioners.
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/ 12 December 2006
Scientists in South Africa unveiled the country’s most powerful weapon yet in their fight against Aids, malaria and tuberculosis when they switched on a new supercomputer dedicated to scientific research this week. The supercomputer is designed to process huge amounts of complex information and to deliver data with astonishing speed.
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/ 12 December 2006
An unidentified man died in a fall from the top of Table Mountain on Tuesday, Wilderness Search and Rescue said. Spokesperson Dion Tromp said it appeared the man was sitting on a rock near the upper cable station when he had some sort of a seizure.
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/ 12 December 2006
The lawyer representing Kebble murder accused Glenn Agliotti ”knows nothing” about plans to charge Agliotti with involvement in a multimillion-rand drugs syndicate. The lawyer, Lawrence Hodes, said he did not attend a brief court appearance on Tuesday by Stephanos Paparas (45) at which it was indicated that another accused was to be added to the charge sheet.