Word: thami
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...Marilyn Cooper, who runs the local branch of the Cape Wine Academy and is one of the festival's organizers. "We have got to get our black population drinking wine." Talk to some of the locals at the festival, and there are encouraging signs of change. Two years ago, Thami Xaba opened Soweto's first wine shop, the Morara Wines & Spirit Emporium. He reckons it's the wine industry that has been slow to recognize the potential of places like Soweto, not the other way around. "Drinking wine represents a lifestyle. It means you are affluent," he says. "I could...
...kill two abducted French journalists unless the government rescinded the head-scarf ban. But the government refused to do so, and even though they disagree with the law, French Muslims rallied behind their secular leaders. "The drama in Iraq must not lead us to renounce this law," said Lhaj Thami Brèze, president of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, which has ferociously denounced the ban in the past. "It's a question of legality. After all this, despite all this, we must abide by French justice in this country." Outside the lycée Rabelais, the students...