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/ 18 November 2001
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Kongho, Nigeria | Sunday THE first time Iduate Enoch saw a turtle, he killed the beast and ate it. Now he goes out at night persuading others to let them live. ”It is a bit embarrassing,” says Enoch, a stalwart member of the Akassa Coast Conservation Initiative, or the Turtle Club as it […]
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/ 18 November 2001
Mexico City | Saturday AN alternative cancer therapy using the venom from blue scorpions has had a 97% success rate in Cuba, a researcher said in an interview published this week in the newspaper La Jornada. Cuban doctor Misael Bordier cautioned that while his patients were not cured of their cancers when treated with the […]
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/ 18 November 2001
A DURBAN morgue worker and another man were arrested for trafficking of body parts on Friday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Director Bala Naidoo said the anti-corruption unit and the elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, followed up information on the man who was employed at the Gale Street mortuary. Both a dealer and the man were […]
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/ 18 November 2001
DRAFT legislation that aims to establish a single official scientific body to promote the development of research and the exchange of such knowledge in South Africa was passed unanimously by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Friday. Responding to debate on the measure in the House, Science and Technology Deputy Minister Bridgitte Mabandla said […]
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/ 18 November 2001
GOOLAM Hoosain Ismael Pahad, the father of Essop Pahad, Minister in the Presidency and Aziz Pahad, Deputy Foreign Minister died, on Thursday evening, a statement issued on behalf of the family said. He was 90 years old. Pahad was a leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the South African Indian Congress from the […]
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/ 17 November 2001
Harare | Saturday TENSION continued to rise in Zimbabwe late on Friday as violence escalated in the country’s second largest city following the murder there of a leader of the 1970s war of independence. Clashes were reported between government loyalists and members of the main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and Zimbabwean television […]
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/ 16 November 2001
I didn’t think I’d ever see a movie in which the highlight was an appearance by Neil Diamond as his own wooden self, but <i>Evil Woman</i> is it, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 16 November 2001
Bongani Majola spoke to Choppa, the Mozambican whose music is an infectious fusion of streetwise grooves.
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/ 16 November 2001
On a sunny summer day in the suburbs of Maputo, young kids surround an outdoor stage, jiving relentlessly alongside the childish disbalance of the old people who dance with them, writes Struan Douglas.
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/ 16 November 2001
It is sheer coincidence that Zimbabweans Oliver Mtukudzi and Louis Mhlanga, and Mozambique-born Gito Baloi are appearing together at the Civic Theatre Complex in Braamfontein to launch their most recent works, writes Meshak Mabogoani.