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/ 17 November 2001
Harare | Saturday TENSION continued to rise in Zimbabwe late on Friday as violence escalated in the country’s second largest city following the murder there of a leader of the 1970s war of independence. Clashes were reported between government loyalists and members of the main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and Zimbabwean television […]
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/ 16 November 2001
It is sheer coincidence that Zimbabweans Oliver Mtukudzi and Louis Mhlanga, and Mozambique-born Gito Baloi are appearing together at the Civic Theatre Complex in Braamfontein to launch their most recent works, writes Meshak Mabogoani.
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/ 16 November 2001
Bongani Majola spoke to Choppa, the Mozambican whose music is an infectious fusion of streetwise grooves.
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/ 16 November 2001
On a sunny summer day in the suburbs of Maputo, young kids surround an outdoor stage, jiving relentlessly alongside the childish disbalance of the old people who dance with them, writes Struan Douglas.
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/ 16 November 2001
I didn’t think I’d ever see a movie in which the highlight was an appearance by Neil Diamond as his own wooden self, but <i>Evil Woman</i> is it, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 16 November 2001
As talk show hosts go there aren’t many who come anywhere near Michael Parkinson. With his easy geniality and almost complete lack of intrusive ego he has been a British hit for heaven only knows how many years. They’re running some recent Parkinson shows on BBC Prime and last week’s guests included two English funnymen […]
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/ 16 November 2001
Cellular communication is moving from being a voice carrier to a data network David Shapshak There have been many false dawns in the cellular industry, but the brightest moments appear to be upon us. Super-fast networks an Internet connection that continuously links you, through your phone, to the global communications infrastructure are the next sunrise. […]
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/ 16 November 2001
obituary: ken kesey Fuelled by psychedelic drugs and dressed in a jester’s outfit, Ken Kesey, who has died aged 66 of liver cancer, embodied an ancient tradition of the Merry Prankster and became the protagonist of Tom Wolfe’s ground-breaking book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, but the work that will last is his darkly humorous […]
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/ 16 November 2001
Lynda Gilfillan There’s a baby grand piano laden with candelabra and kitsch in a magical dining room in the middle of the great Karoo. Just when you thought you couldn’t face another Ultra City, and there’s no way you can turn back, because you’ve travelled 700km and there’s still 700km to go before you hit […]
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/ 16 November 2001
David Shapshak The death of the desktop PC has long been prophesied by the technology industry, which is always conscious of the next big thing. First came the laptop, then the handheld computers, cellphones and gaming platforms. But the new hub of our increasingly digital homes may well be the fridge, certainly if Korea has […]