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/ 18 February 2001
AN extra soft drink a day gives a child a 60% greater chance of becoming obese, new research suggests. A US study published this week in The Lancet medical journal said the soft drink-obesity link was independent of the food the children ate, how much television or videos they watched and the amount that they […]
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/ 17 February 2001
GUMISAI MUTUME, Washington DC | Friday CIVIL wars have blunted and reversed economic growth prospects in a number of African countries at a time when foreign aid to the continent has been shrinking, the World Bank says. In a new report featuring key African social and economic data for the period 1990-99 released, the Bank […]
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/ 16 February 2001
The 5Â 722 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have made their nominations for this year’s Oscars. Duncan Campbell asks five of the anonymous ‘judges’ how they make their choices.
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/ 16 February 2001
Philip Kaufman’s flamboyant new movie is about the last days of the Marquis de Sade. He tells Mark Morris why he’s so interested in sex.
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/ 16 February 2001
Philip Kaufman’s film <b>Quills</b>, scripted by Doug Wright from his play, is set in the same time-frame as Peter Weiss’s revolutionary theatrical piece <i>The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade</i>, for short – whew – <i>Marat/Sade</i>.
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/ 16 February 2001
The core of the South African squad will probably come from the 14 players who did duty in the last two Tests against Sri Lanka, writes Peter Robinson If you were to choose just one cricketer to travel to the West Indies with South Africa at the end of this month on the basis of […]
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/ 16 February 2001
In a move reminiscent of the apartheid era, residents of Alexandra township were this week subjected to forced removals. Report by Thuli Nhlapo. Photographs by Nadine Hutton This week more than 20 unemployed young boys and men were picked up on the streets of Wadeville in Benoni after being told that they would make extra […]
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/ 16 February 2001
A century ago, a rising South African writer was languishing in a prisoner-of-war camp. Stephen Gray introduces his unique letters A hundred years ago, on a sweltering mountainside in Sri Lanka, some 5 000 transported Boer sol- ‘ diers, defeated largely in the Free State, were penned up behind barbed wire for the duration of […]
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/ 16 February 2001
Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane Second Look A groundswell movement for people-centred social justice is generating a momentum that amounts to the left’s best hope for 30 years. It is a reinvention of the left that involves new formations in place of traditional communist parties and left-wing governments. And it draws on a network of […]
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/ 16 February 2001
Mungo Soggot Trafigura, the London-based oil company embroiled in the bribe scandal, this week dismissed allegations that bribes had been paid to South African state oil officials as part of its deal with the state oil operation. Documents and affidavits filed in the Pretoria High Court say that, as part of a deal with Trafigura […]