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/ 24 November 2006
South Africa on Friday signed letters of intent with Guinea to help the West African country revive its transport infrastructure. The signing follows a two-day joint commission headed by Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and her Guinean counterpart, Mamady Conde, in Pretoria.
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/ 24 November 2006
Brett Kebble’s car was placed under a plastic cover and bore the message ”Do Not Touch. Investigation” when it was stored at the premises of Danmar Autobody for nearly a week after the murder of the mining magnate. This is according to the panel-beating company, which denied a report that the vehicle was cleaned on the company’s property within hours of the murder.
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/ 24 November 2006
Lewis Hamilton, a 21-year-old Briton, will become Formula One’s first black driver when he joins world champion Fernando Alonso at McLaren next season. Hamilton, regarded as one of the most talented drivers of his generation, joins the British stable after winning this year’s GP2 series.
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/ 24 November 2006
Protesters against crime called on the government to offer tax deductions for money spent on security in a memorandum handed to a Gauteng safety and security representative in Johannesburg on Friday. Lorraine Maisel, founder of the organisation Angry About Crime, handed the memorandum to Ian Robertson.
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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
Nadine Gordimer looks at the long career of Sam Nhlengethwa and his new take on the township.
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/ 24 November 2006
The footage captured by Theresa Collins and her partner Mocke van Veuren in the video installation, <i>Minutes</i> doesn’t so much objectify its subjects as much as it validates them, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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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
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
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.