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Costume drama of the week:</b> In <i>The King Is Dancing</i>, Corbiau leaps from one scene to the next, without much bridging or build-up, and keeps the emotional temperature high. He all but dispenses with the recitative; the film is all arias, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 21 September 2001
Argentinian-born film producer Fernando Sulichin will be in Durban during the city’s International Film Festival to conduct several workshops and to introduce the South African prèmiere of the Sulichin-produced <i>Bully</i>, the new film by Larry Clark — a frank and explicit portrait of the violent, nihilistic youth of the United States, based on a real-life murder in Florida.
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/ 21 September 2001
Buddy Maroun’s speed brigade just seems to keep rolling and even a 62kg burden might not be enough to prevent All Will Be Well taking a turn in the winner’s enclosure in Saturday’s Turffontein feature, the R125000 CT Brand Handicap over 1000m. The Badger Land gelding rounded off his seventh year with a gutsy win […]
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/ 21 September 2001
Is the evidence against Osama bin Laden sufficient to unleash a war? Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill As far as President George W Bush is concerned, Osama bin Laden is “wanted dead or alive” for the September 11 outrages. The phrase harked back to a bygone Texan age when a lawman’s strong hunch […]
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/ 21 September 2001
Analysis Anthony Holiday It should surprise no one that the real culprit behind the acts of terror that have traumatised the United States and the global hamlet it effectively governs is not some group of Islamic fanatics but a philosophical doctrine, wholly occidental in origin, which is now rampant, not merely in academia but in […]
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/ 21 September 2001
CD of the week Ash:Free All Angels Betty Clarke Nowadays it’s not cool to be young and enjoy it. Instead, adolescence is surrounded by negativity and teenagers bemoan the fact that they have their whole lives in front of them. Where are the head-spinning thrills, the heart-stopping lust, the celebration of golden summer holidays that […]
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/ 21 September 2001
Comment Larry Elliott The response to the attacks in the United States last week has been instant. Old ways of thinking have been ditched to fight the threat to the West. Life after September 11 may never be quite the same again. No, you haven’t missed something. The armchair generals who were demanding knee-jerk retaliation […]
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/ 21 September 2001
Football’s focus this weekend is on a revived cup competition Ntuthuko Maphumulo It’s back, hotter than Mexican chillies and Indian spices. It’s the Coca-Cola Cup, nicknamed “ya chesa (its hot)”. It is the second-richest cup competition in Africa, with the winning team taking home R2-million making the Premier Soccer League title seem small change. The […]
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/ 21 September 2001
New divides are emerging among the residents of Gauteng: insiders correspond to areas of affluence, outsiders to areas of disadvantage Richard Tomlinson Cities in Gauteng, once notorious for the disadvantages created by apartheid planning, are seeing the creation of still greater disadvantage as the province becomes one of insiders and outsiders. In places like Soweto […]
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Investment and development is improving the lives and industry of South Africans Mail & Guardian reporter From the explosive power of deep-level gold mining to the intricacies of drug development and vaccine research, investment and development in South Africa’s economy continues. International chill winds may upset the financial markets, but investors are still putting money […]