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/ 18 February 2001
A THIRD river is threatening to worsen killer floods in central Mozambique, which have already killed 17 people and affected some 280_000. Some 30_000 people in Mozambique have been forced to leave their homes, while another 60_000 have been displaced in neighboring Malawi. Mozambican authorities say the Save River now threatens to add to the […]
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/ 18 February 2001
BRIAN LIGOMEKA, Blantyre | Saturday MALAWIS most important social services, including the country’s army, face collapse within the next four years when an estimated 25% of government officials begin dying of HIV/Aids, says a new international study. The study, by the London-based PANOS Institute, indicates that between 25 and 50% of officials employed in Malawi’s […]
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/ 18 February 2001
AN extra soft drink a day gives a child a 60% greater chance of becoming obese, new research suggests. A US study published this week in The Lancet medical journal said the soft drink-obesity link was independent of the food the children ate, how much television or videos they watched and the amount that they […]
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/ 17 February 2001
GUMISAI MUTUME, Washington DC | Friday CIVIL wars have blunted and reversed economic growth prospects in a number of African countries at a time when foreign aid to the continent has been shrinking, the World Bank says. In a new report featuring key African social and economic data for the period 1990-99 released, the Bank […]
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/ 16 February 2001
The 5Â 722 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have made their nominations for this year’s Oscars. Duncan Campbell asks five of the anonymous ‘judges’ how they make their choices.
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/ 16 February 2001
Philip Kaufman’s flamboyant new movie is about the last days of the Marquis de Sade. He tells Mark Morris why he’s so interested in sex.
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/ 16 February 2001
Philip Kaufman’s film <b>Quills</b>, scripted by Doug Wright from his play, is set in the same time-frame as Peter Weiss’s revolutionary theatrical piece <i>The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade</i>, for short – whew – <i>Marat/Sade</i>.
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/ 16 February 2001
British lone yacht skipper Ellen MacArthur logs 95 days of supreme physical effort, cheating death in an icy ocean and battling sleep deprivation before she sails into port to end her Vende Globe single-handed adventure Day 1, November 9 2000 On a grey, wet and cold afternoon, Ellen MacArthur visits every skipper on the dockside, […]
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/ 16 February 2001
Guy Willoughby theatre Is the Spier Summer Festival’s avowed commitment to excellence and the immediate community actually working? With the fifth annual Festival three-quarters through it runs from November to March it’s a good juncture to take stock. Their latest production, the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical West Side Story a rumbustious retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo […]
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/ 16 February 2001
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Until November last year, Keith Kunene enjoyed an enviable reputation as one of South Africa’s leading businessmen. He heads one of the country’s largest, multimillion-rand black family empires, the Kunene Brothers. His business achievements have earned him accolades and rave reviews in the country’s glossy magazines. By all accounts, Kunene is […]