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/ 25 November 2001
MODERATE eating may help promote a longer life, according to a study of so-called Methuselah mice, who lived to the equivalent in human age of more than 150 years thanks to a reduced diet. Scientists took a batch of rodents called Ames dwarf mice, a small ”mutant” mouse which enjoys longevity thanks to a well-explored […]
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/ 25 November 2001
A 33-year-old home affairs department official appeared in the Louis Trichardt Magistrate’s Court on Thursday after she allegedly accepted a bribe from an illegal immigrant, Northern Province police reported. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said Rebecca Monisi was granted R1000 bail and the case was postponed until December 7. Monisi was arrested on Wednesday. ”We set a […]
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/ 25 November 2001
THE Amazon, which today represents a quarter of the planet’s forests and is one of its most diverse reserves of plants and animals, could disappear within the next 50 years, environmental pressure group Greenpeace warned on Tuesday. At the current rate of destruction, the Amazon will be reduced in 50 years time to scattered clumps […]
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/ 25 November 2001
KWAZULU-Natal police have found the bodies of two men believed to have been killed five days ago at a shack at the Shaya Moya squatter camp in Ixopo. Outside the shack several 9mm cartridges were found. Captain Vishnu Naidoo on Thursday said Mfaniseni Cele, 41, and Du Dlamini (29) were last seen alive last Saturday, […]
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/ 23 November 2001
<b>Kids’ movie of the week</b>. The film has less of the book’s jolly-hockey-sticks tone, but also fewer laughs. It flows along smoothly, from one episode to the next, without much rhythm, and some of the more hair-raising sequences seem curiously underplayed, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 November 2001
<b>Grown-up’s movie of the week:</b> Patrice Chéreau’s film asks the same question that <i>Last Tango in Paris</i> asks: is it possible for two people to have a purely sexual relationship? By Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 November 2001
JK Rowling’s genius lies in taking the best bits from all the children’s classics to make the Potter books, but the real magic’s in the film, writes Julie Myerson.
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/ 23 November 2001
you have to admit that South African television and radio have something special to offer visitors from overseas. Thanks to the efforts of such doughty South African prophets as Albert Hertzog — one-time minister of posts and telegraphs in the heyday of National Party rule — television was banned in this country. It only got […]
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/ 23 November 2001
Stefaans Brmmer Two of the main contracts in South Africa’s R66-billion arms deal submarines and corvettes from German consortia are open to challenge: they were awarded largely on the strength of pie-in-the-sky investment promises. The joint investigation report on the arms deal released to Parliament last week points to serious procedural and technical irregularities in […]
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/ 23 November 2001
The article “Workplace injury compensation shambles” (November 16) is fraught with inaccuracies, lack of contextual understanding, personal vilification and semantic engineering designed to give a negative impression of the compensation office. And, sadly, defamatory. Malicious inaccuracies include, inter alia, the number of staff employed, reasons for the backlogs, the “motives of the commissioner”, the administration […]