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/ 24 November 2006
Tumi Makgetla reviews exhibitions in Gauteng as well as a glossy publication, reflecting the experiences of more than half the population.
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/ 24 November 2006
Berni Searle’s uses her body to map a complex political and emotional field, writes Brenton Maart.
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/ 24 November 2006
The government this week successfully fended off a court challenge to school fees regulations intended to protect poor pupils and their parents. Seventeen well-funded public schools in KwaZulu-Natal brought an urgent application in the Pietermaritzburg High Court last Friday to halt implementation of the government’s new regulations on exemptions from payment of school fees.
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/ 24 November 2006
Those officers in the Department of Corrections whose literary tastes tend towards the moister, more urgent arts would have been hard-pressed last weekend to stifle a small shriek of desire when they discovered that Anaïs Nin had escaped from C-Max prison in Pretoria, the bigamist and writer of elegant filth having smeared herself with Vaseline and slithered to freedom through a narrow slit.
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/ 24 November 2006
Raging waters swept away and killed at least five sleeping children as a third week of torrential rains pounded southern Somalia, bringing the flooding death toll to at least 85, officials said on Friday. With downpours continuing and no end in sight to the unusually heavy seasonal, local officials said new overnight floods had hit the south.
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/ 24 November 2006
Rwanda on Friday recalled its ambassador to France and hinted it might break diplomatic relations with Paris in a row over arrest warrants issued by a French judge related to the 1994 genocide. A day after more than 25Â 000 people rallied in Kigali to denounce France, Rwanda’s foreign minister accused Paris of trying to destroy his government.
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/ 24 November 2006
Moody’s <i>Economy.com</i> expects South Africa’s CPIX inflation to peak in the closing months of the year and to linger at the upper end of the central bank’s 3% to 6% target range going into 2007, before moderating steadily. The recent slowdown in retail sales growth was flagged as a sign that monetary tightening is having its desired effect, it added.
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/ 24 November 2006
The JSE was marginally weaker in noon trade on Friday as negative European markets, on which heavyweight dual-listed stocks were down, took their toll. Losses locally were pared by a weaker rand and higher gold price. By 12.14pm, the all share index dipped 0,11%.
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/ 24 November 2006
Politely pouring a cup of tea into a bone china cup in his sumptuous Claridges suite, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is an unlikely bogeyman. Yet ask many food campaigners to name their least favourite corporate executive and the silver-haired Austrian at the head of the world’s largest food company, Nestlé, would come high on many lists.
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/ 24 November 2006
A plan to roll and smoke the world’s largest joint was cancelled in Amsterdam when the organisers realised they could be breaking the law. ”We have now read the small print and realise there could be problems,” Thijs Verheij was quoted as saying by ANP news agency after consulting Dutch drugs laws.