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/ 12 January 2001
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
What a delight to commence a couple of years without elections and put our energy into transforming the country.
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/ 12 January 2001
The brouhaha concerning the white declaration of commitment again raises the issue of reconciliation.
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/ 12 January 2001
The Holland South Africa Line project wanted artists from the two countries to be inspired and influenced by each other and their lands.
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/ 12 January 2001
Corrie Sanders, former World Boxing Union (WBU) heavyweight champion, is optimistic about his boxing future.
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/ 12 January 2001
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
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 […]
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/ 12 January 2001
POLICE have confiscated one million Mandrax tablets, with an estimated street value of R40m, at a Durban warehouse and arrested five suspects, aged between 14 and 37. The tablets were found concealed in soft animal dolls imported from China.
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/ 12 January 2001
THE Nigerian army chief has defended recent life jail sentences imposed on 25 wounded soldiers accused of mutiny for complaining about their conditions. The soldiers, who were injured while serving in ECOMOG, a west African peacekeeping force, were sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of last month for protesting against conditions surrounding their medical […]
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/ 12 January 2001
MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday THE brother of a senior official guiding South Africas controversial R43bn arms package has been a director of a local offshoot of one of the winning foreign companies from as early as 1996 – winning contracts worth at least R400m in the process. Shabir Shaik, the brother of Shamin Chippy […]