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/ 5 February 2000
THE South African Rugby Football Unions’ Management Committee has reaffirmed that AJ Venter is not allowed to take part in any rugby until his contractual wrangle is resolved. Sarfu responded to Venter’s inclusion in the Sharks Rugby Super 12 team to play Border in a warm-up game in East London on Saturday. The contractual dispute […]
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/ 5 February 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday 4.00pm. THE American Davis Cup team face a critical match against Zimbabwe on Saturday, after the teams tied one-all on the opening day of the tie in Harare. Andre Agassi thrashed Wayne Black, but debutante Chris Woodruff was beaten by Black’s brother, Byron. “Tomorrow is a very key match,” said […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Recently M-Net took 21 aspiring African film-makers to a workshop on Gorèe Island. John Matshikiza wonders whether stars are made or born.
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/ 4 February 2000
A South African artist has been trailing rock legend Patti Smith for the past five years, producing a groundbreaking film due for release at Cannes this year. Charl Blignaut reports.
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/ 4 February 2000
Playing a tough heroine in the US hit, Double Jeopardy, has finally pushed Ashley Judd onto Hollywood’s A-List. Mark Morris discovers a new age disciple enjoying the perks of fame – and desperate not to catch the dreaded London ‘flu whilst on a promotional tour.
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/ 4 February 2000
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Piet the mongrel is dead and buried at the bottom of the garden, I am told, under the loquat tree. Most pets tend to have been special, post mortem; it is perhaps the selective nature of memory. But, although some might say the quality is not discoverable among animals, I think […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Bhorat Haroon Minister of Welfare and Development Zola Skweyiya recently announced his department’s intention to pursue the feasibility of setting up a national income grant scheme. There can be no doubt that such a grant system requires serious consideration, to buttress the current suite of social assistance programmes directed at the country’s most indigent. One […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Edward Helmore The music industry used to refer to music as “product”, implying something tangible, but the time is near when music will be called “content” – intangible, and entirely apt for something that exists only as digital code on the Internet. In two steps, the two most risk-averse and bureaucratic of the big five […]
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/ 4 February 2000
NINETEEN soldiers have been executed for sedition or acts of banditry in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past week, judicial sources said on Thursday. Nine had been convicted and sentenced to death by a military court for murder and armed robbery and were executed in Kinshasa on Wednesday, court sources said. They included […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Adam Haupt Capoeira, Brazil’s beefy martial arts form, has an interesting history that takes one into Brazil’s colonial past. Its movements evoke its people’s African origins. Given its place in the history of the “new world”, it’s odd that two Swedes – Paul Blomgren and Billy Malm – are in South Africa to “re-introduce” this […]