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/ 20 February 2004
Mozambique will boost the generating capacity of its giant Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam by 70% if the sale of Portugal’s controlling stake in the plant’s holding company goes ahead, an official from the southern African nation said on Thursday.
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/ 20 February 2004
World number four gold miner Gold Fields’ $160-million Tarkwa expansion remains on schedule and within budget, investment bank Merrill Lynch says in a recent note following a visit to Gold Fields’s Ghana gold mines.
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/ 20 February 2004
For all his dynamic onstage performances and rock’n’roll personae, Arno Carstens has always been a somewhat reclusive, reserved individual. Despite life’s contradictions, he’s is still the closest thing we have to a genuine, home-grown rock star, writes David Chislett.
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/ 20 February 2004
”I am told by my sources in the CIA that the real motto of the company is ”And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall piss you off!” For some reason or other, I found myself thinking about this while reading Denis Beckett’s latest book,” writes Anthony Egan of Redeeming Features.
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/ 20 February 2004
South African Football Association (Safa) chief operations officer and acting CEO Albert Mokoena did the unthinkable this week by summoning the media to talk about the problems at Safa. Mokoena said that Safa had messed up ”big time” by sacking Bafana Bafana’s coach just before they left for the African Cup of Nations tournament in Tunisia.
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/ 20 February 2004
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
”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
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
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.