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/ 21 October 2005
A recent novel, written by an Arab woman under the pseudonym Nedjma and first published in France, has become a bestseller, writes Thobile Disemelo.
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/ 21 October 2005
Culture and ideas and words constitute a world power, and they stand against the current menace — thanks in no small measure to Nobel Prize-winner Harold Pinter, writes John Pilger.
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/ 21 October 2005
I draw blood from the tip of my finger, transfer it to a plastic diskette, add six drops of a clear chemical solution and wait for five minutes while a red blush spreads across an area marked T (for test) and C (for control). No vertical bar appears on the T, meaning that I am HIV-negative.
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/ 21 October 2005
A compromise plan aimed at ending the latest battle around Judge President John Hlophe has left questions hanging, and looks likely to lend momentum to calls for an improved disciplinary mechanism for judges. Chief Justice Pius Langa is expected to release a report on transformation in the judiciary next week.
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/ 21 October 2005
The African National Congress ruling party has welcomed the resolution of a race row that erupted in the Cape High Court in the past two weeks. In a statement on Thursday, parliamentary caucus spokesperson Mpho Lekgoro said the caucus had confidence in the judiciary’s ability to deal with the matter competently.
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/ 21 October 2005
A man who died in his car at a busy Australian shopping centre sat there for a week and even collected a parking ticket on his windshield before anyone realised he had passed away, reports said on Friday. Sky News reported the 71-year-old motorist was issued with a parking ticket at the shopping centre in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs two days before his death was discovered.
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/ 21 October 2005
Catalino Bactat has spent nearly all his adult life guarding Ferdinand Marcos, from the time when his boss was the most powerful man in the Philippines and now as a mass of dried tissue in an airless glass case. "He was a good man, the president was a disciplined man. He was not a soldier for nothing," Bactat says of Marcos.
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/ 21 October 2005
If our rulers were REALLY serious about stopping people drinking and driving they’d do something constructive about it, other than just making money out of roadblocks in currently-disadvantaged areas. Providing a decent public transport system would be a good start. But that’s never going to happen.
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/ 21 October 2005
<i>Backstage</i>’s call for entertainers to have their two minutes of fame on the show is, in essence, a gross exploitation of artists, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 21 October 2005
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Zhang Yimou’s <i>The House of Flying Daggers</i> is gripping and entertaining, and ravishingly gorgeous to watch, writes Shaun de Waal.