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For your weekend listening pleasure, a SteynOnline audio special with a rock legend: A couple of years back, Mark strayed on to unfamiliar turf and took a crack at Ted Nugent's rock classic, "Cat Scratch Fever". Ted was kinder about Mark's version than he was about Motorhead's ("Mark Steyn nails the soulfulness of my classic song"). Nevertheless, nothing beats the original, which this year celebrates its fortieth birthday. To mark the anniversary, we present a wide-ranging conversation in which Steyn talks to Ted Nugent about pop culture and politics, Motown and medical dictionaries - everything from Chuck Berry to Mitt...

THE Mutare woman, who last week confessed before Chief Zimunya’s court to practising witchcraft and using two snakes to “stop” rains from falling, had earlier on approached the chief and surrendered a chunk of human biltong. Acting Chief Zimunya confirmed in an interview that, indeed, 18-year-old Tsitsi Matimbe brought the dried piece of human flesh complaining that it was difficult to chew, and that she felt tormented. “At first, we could not believe it and we ordered her to show us the chunk of the biltong and she was quick to do it. “We were all shocked and we just...