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New Springbok coach Jake White is a great motivator. He’s a student of the game. He’s a thinker, a facilitator, a mover, a groover, a philosopher-king. But consider this, in light of the state of South African rugby: Is there anything a modern Springbok coach can do that a trained chimpanzee can’t?
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/ 20 February 2004
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: British director Anthony Minghella has had notable successes at adapting famous novels to the screen, particularly his Oscar-winning The English Patient. Which is probably why he was commissioned to adapt and direct Charles Frazier’s best-seller Cold Mountain. This time round, though, Minghella fails to make it work. Shaun de Waal reviews.
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/ 20 February 2004
The history of South African art has been chequered over the years, coloured by discrimination. Consequently, many significant chapters in its evolution fell through the cracks in documentation and serious awareness. Robyn Sassen revisits the chapter on Rorke’s Drift.
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/ 20 February 2004
”As I step into Claudette Schreuders’s lounge, I am immediately drawn to the neat display of objects placed on and suspended above her fireplace. Collectively, these seem to offer a telling portrait of the artist. ”A local artist reveals an intimate universe to Sean O’Toole — and the wider world.
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/ 20 February 2004
That this strangely patchy novel should have been published by Secker & Warburg, JM Coetzee’s publishers, is a little mystifying. At times it even seems the esteemed S&W may be hoping for a toehold in the Mills & Boon market, for this novel deals with a series of interconnected love stories, often a little sugary, writes Jane Rosenthal of <i>One Tongue Singing</i> by Susan Mann.
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The Pan Africanist Congress is struggling to raise enough money to register with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and contest the national and provincial elections. The Mail & Guardian has learned that the PAC has been told by potential donors to get its house in order before they can discuss committing funds to it.
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/ 20 February 2004
I must confess to having experienced a feeling of great personal relief when reading recent statements by our lovable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana-Sarafina-Virodene-Dlamini-Zuma. Like lots of other embittered neo-colonialists, I have come at last to realise that all the fuss and grief over Zimbabwe is little more than a white-owned, media-generated conspiracy to make an altruistic savant like President Robert Mugabe look like a deranged tosspot.
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/ 20 February 2004
The R1-billion joint venture between Econet Wireless and IT giant Altech finalised last month is likely to go down as one of the year’s biggest deals — and a surprise beneficiary stands poised to take a handsome stake. It has emerged that African National Congress spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama is part of a consortium in negotiations to buy between 15% and 20% of the newly formed telecoms giant.
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The March 6 executive meeting of the South African Football Association (Safa) was billed as a meeting to solve the shenanigans affecting South African soccer, but turned out to be a damp squib.
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<b>AUTHOR’S NOTES:</b> Deon Meyer is the author of the cop thrillers <i>Dead Before Dying</i> and <i>Dead at Daybreak</i>, first published in Afrikaans. Now translated, they show every sign of becoming an international success. His new novel, <i>Heart of the Hunter</i> is just as promising.