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/ 4 February 2001
NEW Congolese President Joseph Kabila has met President Paul Kagame of Rwanda for talks in the United States, raising hopes of a revival of a 1999 deal to end the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 30-month war. The two men, whose countries are the key adversaries in fighting which has raged on despite the July 1999 […]
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/ 3 February 2001
NEARLY 7_000 people died and more than 20_000 were injured in a total of 12_000 road accidents recorded in Nigeria last year. The number of deaths recorded was up almost 15% from the 1999 figure, to 6_797 from 5_921. The number of people injured in accidents rose to 20_555 from 18_001 a year earlier, a […]
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/ 3 February 2001
DAVID MACFARLANE and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday CHAIR a meeting a month and rake in R240_000 to R360_000 a year. That’s the jaw-dropping deal for some council members at Unisa, a university plagued by low staff morale and under severe financial stress from declining student intakes. Occupying the plushest seat on the Unisa gravy […]
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/ 2 February 2001
As the polarised reactions to Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark have demonstrated, one person’s tragedy is another’s melodrama; one person’s deeply moving is another’s irksomely sentimental. If melodrama is tragedy that fails to move one, then sentimentality is emotion to which you do not respond.
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/ 2 February 2001
Full-length cartoon movies are finally to get their own Oscar. About time too, says Steve Rose.
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/ 2 February 2001
M Night Shyamalan, the 30-year-old writer-director of the commercially (10th-highest grossing film of all time) and artistically successful <i>The Sixth Sense</i>, has a knack of drawing us into a world that is so unique and mysterious, yet grounded, that we can only marvel as we are swept along a road with very few signposts.
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/ 2 February 2001
Riaan Wolmarans CD OFTHEWEEK The Bomfunk MC’s know how to have fun. This is evident on the Finnish outfit’s debut album, In Stereo (Sony), from which the first single, Freestyler, shot them into the charts. This was followed by a string of hits like Uprocking Beats, B-Boys &Flygirls and Other Emcee’s. In Stereo is a […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Photographer Paul Alberts’s retrospective consists of 199 photographs taken over 30 years Matthew Burbidge ‘I’ll leave the happy pictures in my album of my family,” says photographer Paul Alberts of his exhibition, Retrospective 1970 to 2000, opening in Johannesburg next week. It is a brooding, sombre collection but then Alberts, like American photographer Diane Arbus, […]
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/ 2 February 2001
THE South African government will not intervene to save South African Mariette Bosch, who allegedly shot her best friend to marry her husband, from the gallows in Botswana. However, the Cape High Court is considering an application by Tanzanian national Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, the man allegedly responsible for the bomb that destroyed the United States […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Jaspreet Kindra Several African National Congress members have approached Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota with claims that some members of Parliament received bribes to influence the R43-billion arms procurement package. Lekota said after a media briefing in Johannesburg last week that he had directed the members to pass on any relevant information to the auditor […]