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/ 18 November 2001
BONGANI MAGASELA, Cape Town | Sunday AIDS has been acknowledged as a serious threat to SA boxing while a number of rules and regulations could be amended or done away with when Boxing South Africa comes into effect next year. This became clear at the national convention in Cape Town on Saturday after separate reports […]
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/ 18 November 2001
DRAFT legislation that aims to establish a single official scientific body to promote the development of research and the exchange of such knowledge in South Africa was passed unanimously by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Friday. Responding to debate on the measure in the House, Science and Technology Deputy Minister Bridgitte Mabandla said […]
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/ 18 November 2001
Mexico City | Saturday AN alternative cancer therapy using the venom from blue scorpions has had a 97% success rate in Cuba, a researcher said in an interview published this week in the newspaper La Jornada. Cuban doctor Misael Bordier cautioned that while his patients were not cured of their cancers when treated with the […]
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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. […]