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/ 4 February 2000
Recently M-Net took 21 aspiring African film-makers to a workshop on Gorèe Island. John Matshikiza wonders whether stars are made or born.
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/ 4 February 2000
Playing a tough heroine in the US hit, Double Jeopardy, has finally pushed Ashley Judd onto Hollywood’s A-List. Mark Morris discovers a new age disciple enjoying the perks of fame – and desperate not to catch the dreaded London ‘flu whilst on a promotional tour.
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/ 4 February 2000
A South African artist has been trailing rock legend Patti Smith for the past five years, producing a groundbreaking film due for release at Cannes this year. Charl Blignaut reports.
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/ 4 February 2000
Mark Milner and Charlotte Denny Britain may be sceptical about the virtues of signing up for the euro but others, from Latin America to the Balkans, are falling over themselves to adopt someone else’s currency. Ecuador announced this week that it plans to replace the sucre with the dollar as the country’s legal tender. Australian […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Angus Begg WEEKENDS FOR LOVERS by Bridget Hilton- Barber (Southern) ‘Stopovers are the one-night stands of travelling and an evening with Lord Fraser is one you won’t regret.” Far from an invitation to spend the night with an ageing, cross-dressing British Conservative Party politician who has fallen foul of the tabloids, this is Bridget Hilton-Barber’s […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Rupert Neethling “You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.” – The Borg, Star Trek: The Next Generation South Africans who want an Internet dial-up account or who wish to switch to a different Internet service provider (ISP) are discovering that as far as the major ISPs are concerned, they have few choices. Six months ago, […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Andy CapostagnoGolf The local golf tour winds down this week with the Stenham Swazi Open, an amalgam of amateur and professional golf which, rather confusingly, will be held at the Wild Coast Sun, some 700km from Swaziland. The reason for the venue switch is that bane of greenkeepers’ lives, fungus. The greens at the Royal […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Mail & Guardian reporter Liberian President Charles Taylor is suing the London Times for quoting a book accusing him of being a cannibal. The book, The Mask of Anarchy by Oxford- educated scholar Stephen Ellis, accuses Taylor of “indulging in human sacrifice and the ritualistic consumption of human body parts”. The Times article, which appeared […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Melvyn Minnaar Lifestyle In a town like Franschhoek, where the tenuous Huguenot soul was sold out long ago to compliant Biggie Best tourism and big buck retirees, it’s easy enough to find a relaxing spot to sip an adequately-made hot-vineyard wine. To discover something a little more rewarding for body and spirit requires one to […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Terry Pratchett, author of the humorous – and best-selling – Discworld fantasy series, tells Hamish Mackintosh about his computer habits When did you start using computers? In about 1982. I started with a Sinclair ZX81 which allowed me to do very primitive word processing. Next was an Amstrad CPC464 – the first model with an […]