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/ 22 October 2001

SA cops impound false virgins

Johannesburg | Monday POLICE raided several companies this week suspected of selling sunflower seed oil labelled as ”olive oil” — cheating consumers all over the country out of millions of rand. Over the past two months the M-Net magazine programme Carte Blanche worked closely with the SA Olive Growers Association (Saoga) and a team of […]

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/ 22 October 2001

‘Powdery’ mail sparks anthrax scare at Unisa

Pretoria | Monday TWO buildings at the University of SA were evacuated and about 20 people taken to hospital on Monday morning following an anthrax scare. The evacuation of the administration building and library was ordered after mail covered with a white powdery substance arrived at the institution, Unisa representative Doreen Gough said. ”We could […]

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/ 22 October 2001

Mob swear vengeance on Zimbabweans

Honeydew, Johannesburg | Monday COMMUNITY leaders at an informal settlement in Honeydew, western Johannesburg vowed on Monday to drive out all Zimbabwean residents in the area after simmering tensions boiled over at the weekend. Violence at the Zandspruit informal settlement broke out on Sunday when South African residents set fire to their Zimbabwean neighbours’ homes. […]

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/ 19 October 2001

Red-hot, luxuriant love

Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge! is a musical of a kind you’ve never quite seen before. Though set in Paris in 1899, it makes use of a plethora of late-20th-century songs, reworked and often collaged into medleys. The combination of these with the film’s delirious, luxuriant visuals add up to an experience that leaves one somewhat stunned.

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/ 19 October 2001

Some dangers of prostitution

channel vision Robert Kirby Last week’s Special Assignment on the subject of child prostitution opened with a real stinger. In her usual soulful tones, Annaliese Burgess announced that permission to have themselves filmed, interviewed and transmitted had been granted by a collection of child prostitutes. What seems not to have struck Annaliese or her reporters […]