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/ 12 January 2001

‘Half of nothing and still fighting’

Nkosi Johnson is among the children to have survived longest with HIV, but this determined 11-year-old is now helpless Belinda Beresford They come to praise him. And to mourn him, although the skeletal 11- year-old child lying unmoving in his bed is still doing the thing that brought him worldwide fame living. For 11 years […]

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/ 12 January 2001

Fish has had his chips

Bafana Bafana will field a weakened side against Mauritiius but some of the players will not be missed Andrew Muchineripi South African football supporters can be an annoyingly arrogant bunch at times, especially when the national team is playing one of the so-called minnows of Africa. This weekend is a case in point with many […]

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/ 12 January 2001

Danes do Dance Factory Dickens

Jill Waterman DANCE The Dance Factory in the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, is a buzzing dance centre for 26 aspiring young artists. The December vacation has been a special dance training time for this youth group, as they have been working daily on a contemporary dance production of Oliver. The dance theatre work is based […]

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/ 12 January 2001

SA?S NAZI LABOURERS TO BENEFIT

SOUTH African residents who were compelled by the Nazis to work as forced labourers in Austria during World War II should contact the Austrian embassy because they stand to benefit from a new reconciliation fund, which will make payments to former slave and forced labourers. The Austrian embassy said about one million foreign citizens were […]

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/ 12 January 2001

No intelligent life down here, Scotty

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Friday HUMANS are far too primitive for alien life forms to bother contacting, believes an Australian scientist. University of New South Wales astronomer Charles Lineweaver has calculated that Earth-like planets orbiting other stars would be about 1,8 billion years older than Earth on average. As a result, humans would rate little […]

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/ 12 January 2001

Malawi defies ban to kill ‘man-eaters’

BRIAN LIGOMEKA, Blantyre | Friday MALAWI has defied international wildlife treaties by ordering officials and commercial hunters to begin exterminating Nile crocodiles from its densely populated southern provinces. Environmental Affairs Minister Harry Thomson said a surge in crocodile numbers in the Chikwawa and Nsanje districts and along the Shire River had resulted in a spate […]