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/ 17 October 2003
Ingrid Gavshon and John Matshikiza, adjudicators of the second 3 Continents Film Festival, which ended recently in Johannesburg and Cape Town, jointly awarded the first prize to two remarkable films, <i>Ochre and Water</i> and <i>Chavez</i>. This what they had to say…
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/ 17 October 2003
<b>CD of the week:</b>
Various:<i>Africanism II</i> (House Afrika/CCP)
<i>Africanism</i> is the umbrella label for a series of throbbing dance records that are actually made in the Europe and the United States. A second CD that brings the best of these together has just arrived on the continent that inspired its euphoric rhythms. Greg Bowes reviews.
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/ 17 October 2003
Eight months after his arrest on 14 February by National Intelligence Agency officers, journalist Bamporiki Chamira was still being detained at a prison in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a national media watchdog reported on Wednesday.
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/ 17 October 2003
The Tobacco Institute of South Africa (Tisa) says it is "highly surprised" that the Tobacco Bill will be published on Friday without even the least form of consultation. "Although we have not studied the bill, it appears from the Health Department’s statement that it does not only contain a few minor changes," said Tisa CEO Francois van der Merwe.
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/ 17 October 2003
A group of uniquely informal churches that marry African traditions with Christian beliefs is experiencing phenomenal growth among black South Africans and is rapidly becoming the new mainline denomination. ”Some of us worship under trees, others in garages or sitting rooms or schools or flats. Our aim is to bring the people together. That is what made the African people survive oppression,” said Bishop Mshengu Tshabalala.
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/ 17 October 2003
Battles in the African National Congress are typically fought underground. They smoulder along the seams of the party, occasionally showing above the surface in seemingly isolated outbursts from the party’s more incendiary factions, like the ANC Youth League or Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
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/ 17 October 2003
Silicon breast implants taken off the US market 11 years ago should be made available to all women who want them, a panel has decided, despite evidence that they could pose serious health risks. An independent advisory panel voted by nine to six to recommend an ending of the restrictions on the implants.
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/ 17 October 2003
As the ferry headed towards the Staten Island harbour at the wrong speed and the wrong angle on Wednesday afternoon, its pilot, Richard Smith, sat frozen at the moment he was supposed to be guiding the boat in. The captain, Mike Gansas, knew something was wrong and tried to call Smith, first on his walkie-talkie, and then simply yelling his name ”Richie”.
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/ 17 October 2003
Ragged, exhausted and scarred, 74 children apparently sold into bondage were on their way home on Thursday after being rescued from Nigerian granite quarries. The children, some just four years old, told aid workers at least 13 of their companions had died and been buried in shallow graves after succumbing to beatings, hunger, illness and exposure in the pits near the south-western Nigerian city of Abeokuta.
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/ 17 October 2003
It was supposed to honour his resistance to racism in South Africa, but a new statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg has triggered a row over his alleged contempt for black people. The 2,5 metre high bronze statue depicting Gandhi as a dashing young human rights lawyer has been welcomed by Nelson Mandela, among others, for recognising the Indian who launched the fight against white minority rule.