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/ 10 November 2006
Jocelyn Hellig reviews Dr Warren Goldstein’s <i>Defending the human spirit: Jewish law’s vision for a moral society</i>.
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/ 10 November 2006
Michael Raeburn’s unusual and mainly credible novel, <i>Night of the Fireflies</i>, shows life as far more than everyday humdrum reality and politics, writes Jane Rosenthal.
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/ 10 November 2006
Trade conditions improved from September to October but expectations for the next six months are moderate, the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) said on Friday. The Trade Expectations Index — which gauges business’s expectations for trade conditions six months ahead — declined to 62 in October.
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/ 10 November 2006
Confusion reigned on Friday over the ”appointment” of outgoing prisons chief Linda Mti as security head of the 2010 Soccer World Cup local organising committee (LOC). Mti spoke as if the appointment was a given fact, while LOC spokesperson Tumi Makgabo could not confirm that the job was his.
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/ 10 November 2006
Democrats completed their sweep to power in the United States Congress on Thursday, winning the last Senate seat and moving quickly from bitter campaign rhetoric to pledges to try to find common ground with President George Bush. Faced with a new political landscape, Bush signalled a more conciliatory approach on Iraq.
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/ 10 November 2006
The International Energy Agency chief on Friday warned not to fight past battles over the Kyoto Protocol after the United States election, saying the pressing concern was drafting a successor. ”One can say that the US was wrong in not ratifying Kyoto, but today it is not the Kyoto protocol at issue. The problem is what next,” said Claude Mandil.
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/ 10 November 2006
In the wee small hours, when one’s writerly powers
Have abandoned one deep in the lurch
When the week’s submission won’t come to fruition
And you’ve nothing to say, but need the pay
There begins a frenzied search
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/ 10 November 2006
It is important to address challenges in relationships between the tiers of district and local municipalities to ensure better service delivery, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Mbeki was speaking in Parys in the Free State at a sitting of the National Council of Provinces.
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/ 10 November 2006
The Public Protector’s finding that Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya was not duly influenced in awarding a large government contract to an investment company defied common sense, the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday.
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/ 10 November 2006
Researchers in Timbuktu are fighting to preserve tens of thousands of ancient texts which they say prove Africa had a written history at least as old as the European Renaissance. Private and public libraries in the fabled Saharan town in Mali have already collected 150 000 brittle manuscripts, some of them from the 13th century.