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/ 14 September 1999
LAST year provided a movie minefield of choices. But ultimately, the cinema side of the fest was less of a success than expected. Carsten Rasch and Trevor Steele-Taylor programmed an innovative selection of alternative films in their Sinema season including John Woo’s fabulous Hong Kong actioner Hard Boiled and Donald Cammel’s wildly erotic but virtually […]
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/ 14 September 1999
STILL reeling from a devastating week-long bush fire in July that swept across 140kms of North East Cape farmland, killing more than a thousand head of livestock and leaving hundreds of people homeless, the drought-stricken region was again engulfed in flames at the weekend. Some 9600 hectares of veld were destroyed and several hundred head […]
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/ 14 September 1999
DE BEERS Consolidated Mines has given 30 tons of marula logs to wood carvers at Bushbuckridge and Hazyview to reduce the demand on living trees. The company is clearing the site of a new diamond mine being established in Swartwater, near Ellisras in the Northern Province. De Beers’ surveyor Marius Visser said on Monday the […]
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/ 14 September 1999
A YACHT thought to have sunk off the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on Monday night sailed into the Richard’s Bay harbour on Tuesday afternoon, its three crew members seemingly none the worse for wear. A massive search for the men was launched on Tuesday morning amid reports that their vessel had sunk about 55 nautical miles […]
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/ 14 September 1999
WALLABY flyhalf Stephen Larkham seems certain to miss at least the start of next month’s rugby union World Cup after suffering another injury. Larkham broke a thumb early in the 46-37 win by the Australian Capital Territory Brumbies over Queensland on Saturday. Larkham was scheduled to have a pin inserted in his left thumb on […]
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/ 14 September 1999
THE Mpumalanga health department has bought more than 900000 female condoms — but it wants to know what women think of them before they supply any more. Health liaison officer in the HIV/AIDS section, Thandazo Mdluli, said the condoms, expected this month, are part of a pilot project to determine women’s feelings about using the […]
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/ 14 September 1999
POLICE in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, recorded 7380 cases of murder between June 1994 and July this year, an average of 4,5 a day, according to a police report made public on Tuesday. The figure does not take account of those murders not reported to the police in Nigeria’s crime capital, home for an estimated […]
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/ 14 September 1999
BURUNDIAN delegations will next week resume talks aimed at restoring peace in the war-torn central African nation. The talks will continue Monday in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha. Hashim Mbita, a spokesman for the mediating Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation, said the talks were postponed for a week to allow deeper consultations among the parties. Mbita […]
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/ 14 September 1999
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Pretoria | Tuesday 10.30pm. A PERPLEXED Naas Botha has hit back at “ordinary” Francois Pienaar in the latest row over the headline-seeking claims in Pienaar’s autobiography. The former Springbok skipper slammed Botha for continually “sniping” at him in his book, Rainbow Warrior. Louis Luyt and Andre Markgraaff are also lambasted in the tome. […]
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/ 14 September 1999
MOZAMBIQUE’S National Union of Cashew Workers has called on the country’s parliament to pass a bill currently before it which will protect the cashew processing industry by banning, for a ten-year period, the export of raw cashew nuts. Union secretary-general Boaventura Mondlane said that the government’s policy of liberalising the trade in cashew nuts, imposed […]