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/ 26 November 2006
Sue Krige writes about the Nightingale of India and Mahatma Gandhi.
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/ 26 November 2006
Nicole Johnston reviews <i>The Demon of the Curry Powders</i> by Pieter Scholtz, and <i>My Swordhand is Singing</i> by Marcus Sedgwick.
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/ 26 November 2006
Opera Africa stages a gender-bending version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, writes Paul Boekkooi.
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/ 25 November 2006
Andre Pretorius turned in a commanding display at outside-half as South Africa beat England 25-14 at Twickenham in London on Saturday for their first away win this year. It was also the Springboks’ first win against England in eight matches and their first at Twickenham since 1997.
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/ 25 November 2006
Chadian rebels attacked the eastern regional capital of Abeche on Saturday in their latest strike against President Idriss Déby Itno’s rule, but government forces said they had withdrawn and surrounded the town. Chad’s chief of staff said in a statement it had pulled troops back from Abeche.
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/ 25 November 2006
South Africa’s Vulindlela, with Adrian Zaugg at the wheel, qualified eighth out of 22 for the fourth round of the A1Grand Prix (GP) World Cup of Motorsport on Saturday. The 20-year-old winner of the A1 GP season-opening sprint race in The Netherlands in October finished 2,2 seconds behind pole-position winner A1 Team Switzerland.
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/ 25 November 2006
Three Gauteng men were arrested on Saturday for firing shots at the funeral in Khuma, North West, of a robber involved in a cash-in-transit heist. The arrests came shortly before President Thabo Mbeki was due to hold an imbizo (meeting), police said.
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/ 25 November 2006
Emerging with a shock of white fur, a cat stunned cargo workers in the United Kingdom as it jumped out of a goods container after a 17-day sea voyage from Israel to Britain, a journey of more than 3 200km, an animal charity said on Friday. The cat fled from staff when the container was opened, hiding for more than five hours.
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/ 25 November 2006
A classified ad that offered a free baby boy on the Craigslist website was under investigation by police on Friday, although the posting was believed to be a hoax. The ad was posted to the ”free stuff” section of the site early on Thursday alongside offers for free turkey dinners, a set of crutches and an electric stove.
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/ 25 November 2006
”I didn’t know it was wrong to beat my wife,” says a man featured in the documentary Women Wake Up, one of the films that won a prize on Thursday in Senegal at the first pan-African film festival promoting public awareness of gender-based violence.