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LIVE MUSIC: Malu van Leeuwen SOMEBODY’s got to say it: local music has a=20 dangerous anthropological fascination with=20 American music. It’s almost as if the=20 international patent has to wear off before=20 the influences can filter in and be locally=20 appropriated.=20 In its (white) rock incarnation this is the=20 curse that Cape Town band Shooting […]
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/ 31 January 1997
Lesley Cowling IN 1960, a new drug meant to ease morning=20 sickness for pregnant women hit the market.=20 It was called Thalidomide and it gave its=20 name to the babies who were damaged by it=20 in the womb. This pharmacological disaster=20 still haunts the medical profession. The strict controls for developing new=20 drugs are a […]
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/ 31 January 1997
Marion Edmunds and Enoch Mthembu THE African National Congress returns to=20 Parliament next week with plans to=20 neutralise its opponents by co-opting=20 strong opposition voices into the Cabinet=20 or government. This strategy was endorsed at the ANC’s=20 recent mid-term lekgotla, amid concerns=20 about the party’s failure to answer critics=20 on shortcomings in delivery since it […]
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/ 31 January 1997
AT the Dante Alighieri Society in=20 Johannesburg this week, an Italian book on=20 the new South Africa was launched. The=20 collection of10 essays, Il Nuovo Sudafrica,=20 was edited by Itala Vivan, professor of=20 literature at the University of Political=20 Science in Milan.=20 The volume contains essays about this=20 country’s transition to democracy,=20 including contributions by […]
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/ 31 January 1997
World No 1 Pete Sampras crushed his=20 opponent in the Australian Open final with=20 enough certainty to bode well for Paris TENNIS:Stephen Bierley IT WAS perhaps inevitable, once Pete=20 Sampras had won his second Australian Open=20 with consummate ease against a=20 disappointingly ineffectual Carlos Moya=20 last weekend, that thoughts should turn to=20 the next Grand […]
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/ 31 January 1997
Young journalist NICOLA MOULTON goes on her=20 first fashion assignment to the Paris shows THE great and good of the fashion world are=20 gathered in Paris to cast an expert eye=20 over the spring haute couture collections.=20 The format goes roughly like this: everyone=20 turns up at a swanky hotel at specified=20 times and waits […]
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/ 31 January 1997
Hazel Friedman IN a marriage brokered in the corridors of corporate-cultural heaven, South Africa’s business community has finally tied the knot with the arts. And the union has the official blessing of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. On February 3, Business Arts South Africa (Basa) will be launched by Mbeki – who will serve as patron […]
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/ 31 January 1997
DR HILLARY CARMEN was at the forefront of=20 the movement to get skin-lighteners banned.=20 She says some of the first skinlighteners=20 available worldwide had mercury in them,=20 which was absorbed into the bloodstream=20 and caused kidney damage. Lotion containing=20 mercury was banned in 1975 and instead=20 hydroquinone was used. According to Carmen=20 this caused “an […]
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/ 31 January 1997
airport Mungo Soggot ISRAELI national Zif Falk narrowly failed=20 this week to set a new record for “body- smuggling” diamonds out of South Africa.=20 Apprehended by police on Saturday night in=20 the departures lounge at Johannesburg=20 International Airport, Falk was found to=20 have uncut gems worth R2,4-million packed=20 carefully in a condom in his rectum. […]
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/ 31 January 1997
After recovering from a head injury, it’s=20 downhill all the way for South Africa’s=20 one-man team at the world skiing champs SKIING:Julian Drew IT requires a certain amount of courage to=20 ski at 140km/h down a 52 degree slope when=20 the slightest misjudgment in the blinding=20 glare of the sun can prove extremely=20 hazardous. To […]