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/ 29 September 2001
NAWAAL DEANE, DAVID MACFARLANE AND MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday THE South African government’s oil agency, the Central Energy Fund, has pumped at least R80-million into an unproven, coal-based HIV/Aids treatment that is being tested on Tanzanian soldiers. There are striking parallels between the drug trials, conducted under the auspices of the University of Pretoria, […]
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/ 29 September 2001
DREW FORREST Johannesburg | Friday A UNIVERSITY research unit has calculated, at current budgetary levels, it will take 150 years to complete South Africa’s land restitution programme. The research, by the Programme for Land Agrarian Studies (Plaas) at the University of the Western Cape, strongly suggests that government plans to accelerate land reform – in […]
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/ 29 September 2001
BARRY STREEK AND MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday BILLY Masetlha, the controversy-shrouded Director General of the Department of Home Affairs, is being tipped to head the new Presidential Intelligence Unit (PIU). The PIU will be housed in the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and will report directly to the Office of the President. Minister of Intelligence […]
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/ 28 September 2001
Once a year hundreds of gay people dress up in gaudy frocks and impossibly high heels and join large crowds of ordinary-looking gay men and women to walk through central Johannesburg, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 28 September 2001
Saturday 29 September 2001 Time Main stage Jazz stage Workshops Ampitheatre/holistic 10-12 drum session 12-12.30 Matthew v.d Want 12.30‒1.00 Yungchen Lhamo Steve Newman & Joey Williams 1.00-1.45 Black Sonshine 1.45-2.30 Nuclearte Cheikh Lo 2.30-3.15 Black 3.15-4.15 Ismael Lo […]
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/ 28 September 2001
The first Thai film to get a wide international release tells of a transsexual and gay volleyball team, writes Steve Rose.
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/ 28 September 2001
<b>Love story of the week:</b> Occasionally an American film comes along that, as untimely as it might sound in these crashing days, restores one’s faith in the human race. <i>Two Family House</i> might have one of the worst titles around, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with the sentiment behind it, writes Neil Sonnekus.
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/ 28 September 2001
Though it may not have much in common with its famous namesake (extreme sports, punk rock, house and hip-hop have, after all, little to do with hippies in the mud) Woodstock, again taking place at the Heidelberg Kloof Aventura holiday resort outside Johannesburg, is an exciting music festival with a jam-packed programme, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 28 September 2001
<b>Thai movie of the week:</b> <i>The Iron Ladies</i> doesn’t always get this delicate balance between humour and empathy right, but overall it works well enough, writes Shaun de Waal.