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/ 13 July 2001

Legal hunt raises hackles

There were more animal lovers than hunters at an experimental hunt last weekend, writes Darran Morgan At first light in a valley in the foothills of the Drakensberg in KwaZulu-Natal, a line of black men, each with a pair of leashed greyhounds, are advancing in search of prey. Just about anywhere else in the province […]

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/ 13 July 2001

Learn from the big arms makers

OVER A BARREL Howard Barrell You, like me, will have heard repeatedly in recent years about how cunning the big pharmaceutical companies are: how adept at manipulating a medical need. The chorus has been particularly loud in the case of the HIV/Aids pandemic. Some have gone so far as to suggest that the HI virus […]

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/ 13 July 2001

Lara Croft’s original sin

BODY LANGUAGE Polly Vernon She gazes defiantly from behind the battered perspex of any number of bus shelters. Statuesque, dewy-thighed, leather-booted. Guns and techno-gadgetry strapped to her bare flesh, glossed lips slightly parted, hair damp with the (not unduly pungent, mind) sweat of her recent exertions. She is Lara Croft or, rather, Angelina Jolie pretending […]

Khumalo: The right medicine
/ 13 July 2001

Khumalo: The right medicine

When you encounter one of South Africa’s most enduring enigmas, soccer star Doctor Khumalo, it is not hard to see why so little outside his football career is known.

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/ 13 July 2001

July fashion stakes going to the dogs

whipping boy If the Durban July is to retain its position as South Africa’s premier horseracing event, the organisers will have to take a long, hard look at the flesh on display. It’s not a pleasant job, but someone has to do it. One expert at the July opined bitterly that, with the cigarette makers […]

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/ 13 July 2001

Ivanisevic fulfils his destiny

TENNIS Nicholas Wood in Split Goran Ivanisevic brought Split to a halt on Tuesday. Just over 24 hours after claiming the Wimbledon title, the rank outsider went home to a welcome never seen before in Croatia. A crowd estimated at 150 000 thronged the port as the new champion entered the port by boat, accompanied […]

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/ 13 July 2001

I am a sick little boy

Paul Christelis is a South African writer living in London. His first novel, Rabbit Season, is published this week by M&GBooks/comPress. Here we excerpt a childhood flashback The doctor searches all over me, with a magnifying glass, a stethoscope and a small cold hammer. “Now tell me what this feels like?” and he jabs me. […]

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/ 13 July 2001

Government walks a tightrope

A SECOND LOOK Sean Jacobs and Judith February The recent events at Bredell near Kempton Park illustrate citizens’ growing impatience with the government’s failure to deliver more speedily. The government faces similar challenges of delivery of other basic services such as water, electricity and sewerage. Because of a lack of resources, one of the ways […]

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/ 13 July 2001

File-saving alternatives

Bearshare is one of the most popular P2P products and captures some of Napster’s community spirit. There is little option to define your search and its search engine is slow. The majority of attempted downloads failed. www.bearshare.com LimeWire is the second most popular. The interface allows multiple simultaneous searches. Download options such as minimum speed […]

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/ 13 July 2001

Singing for Poe

CD of the week Lisa Ekdahl:Lisa Ekdahl Sings Salvadore Poe Matthew Krouse Lisa Ekdahl has to be the cutest chipmunk in jazz. And Salvadore Poe, her chipmunk buddy, has written a whole lot of bossa nova for the two of them that will knock your socks off. Ekdahl is something of a mega pop star […]