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/ 3 May 2002

Expertise lost

Dr Frank Vreede, a molecular genetics expert, is now in Europe. He is specialising in controlling gene expression by manipulating animal responses to vaccination to optimise immunity. Dr Mandy Bastos, a molecular epidemiologist, specialising in foot and mouth disease. She had played a large part for tracing the origin of the disease. Dr Kelly Brayton, […]

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/ 3 May 2002

Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 46 597 175 at 12:30pm on Thursday, May

2 Rollout will continue: The govern-ment said it would continue with its roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs in state hospitals regardless of the outcome of the Constitutional Court. The minister of health’s representative, Sibani Mngadi, said the government was not challenging the roll-out of nevirapine, but “the powers of a judge to decide on how government […]

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/ 3 May 2002

All eyes on us

More than a decade after the Market Photography Workshop was founded, a publication has been launched that illustrates the changing face of South African photography. Yazeed Kamaldien reports Newtown’s Market Photography Workshop was started in 1989, and in reaction to the constraints of apart- heid it threw together people from all walks of life teaching […]

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/ 3 May 2002

Arts listings JOHANNESBURG

theatre Matthew Krouse African Bank Market Theatre, Newtown Cultural Precinct. Celebrity director Mbongeni Ngema revives his Eighties masterpiece and Tony Award-nominee Asinamali! The cast combines new and original cast members, including Thami Cele, Bongani Hlope, Bheki Mqadi, Bhoyi Ngema and Ntusi Gordon. Until May 5. Book at Computicket. Tel: 832 1641. Barney Simon Theatre, African […]

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/ 3 May 2002

CD of the week Pink: Missundaztood

More than a party girl Caroline Sullivan Philadelphia-born Alicia “Pink” Moore views this second album as a “mind-opening” outing that will distinguish her from the glut of girl-pop clones (Mya, for instance, a collaborator on her number-one single Lady Marmalade). Bearing that in mind, she should drop the giggly exclamation marks used instead of I’s […]

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/ 3 May 2002

E-learning: Studying virtuously?

Emma Gordon Blass Online learning is the ideal way for mature students to further their education If you are over 25 and considering returning to university to requalify or to get an advanced degree in your professional area, then e-learning was invented with you in mind. What is e-learning and why is it targeting adult […]

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/ 3 May 2002

English is not enough

Hilary Footitt Suddenly, after September 11, we hear commentators noting with shock that only 10% of the CIA’s Middle Eastern desk could actually speak Arabic. Academics express concern that British expertise in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies is dangerously low and cannot provide us with the sort of guidance we may need to influence the […]