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/ 1 December 2006
Bond is back, and he has a clear run at the festive box office, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 1 December 2006
Americans turned Sacha Baron Cohen’s spoof documentary into a box-office hit. But now that the victims of its send-ups are seeking compensation, Patrick Barkham asks who will have the last laugh?
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/ 1 December 2006
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> book reviewers single out the best titles 2006 had to offer.
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/ 1 December 2006
Matthew Krouse reviews local cookbooks out on the shelves.
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/ 1 December 2006
<i>Memorandum</i>, subtitled <i>A Story with Paintings</i>, is a poignant reflection on hospitalisation, alienation and death. Its text is by Marlene van Niekerk and paintings by Adriaan van Zyl, who died in September. This is an extract.
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/ 1 December 2006
Beirut was on high alert on Friday as hundreds of thousands of opposition demonstrators, led by the pro-Syrian militant group Hezbollah, staged a massive show of force aimed at pressing the Western-backed government to resign. Lebanese troops and armoured vehicles were heavily deployed in the capital as hordes of protesters packed streets.
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/ 1 December 2006
The successful presidential and legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) show Africa is firmly on its way towards its rebirth, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. ”In due course the historic importance of these developments in the DRC will become clear to all of us as Africans,” Mbeki said in his weekly newsletter on the ANC website.
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/ 1 December 2006
Somali authorities were questioning two suspects on Friday over a suicide attack in Baidoa, where the country’s weak government is based, as war fears grew in the shattered African nation. Eight people were killed in Thursday’s car-bombing, which the security forces suggested was the work of a powerful Islamist movement.
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/ 1 December 2006
Former ambassador Norman Mashabane is guilty of sexual harassment, the Pretoria High Court found on Friday. More than three years after Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma overturned a guilty verdict against Mashabane, the court decided otherwise.
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Looking back on 2006 it is instructive to note how far South Africa has come since the dark days of August when the country’s worldwide standing on its HIV/Aids approach reached an all-time low, official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Friday.