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/ 30 November 2001
Film funny man Leon Schuster’s latest film is aimed squarely at the US market. But we can go along for the ride, writes Tony Jackman.
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/ 30 November 2001
Thebe Mabanga takes a bird’s-eye view of the world’s biggest TV series on HIV/Aids.
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/ 30 November 2001
The following letter, from an enraged Multichoice customer in Mtubatuba, was sent to me via the Mail & Guardian in September. In a display of the improved internal efficiency of this newspaper, I received it last week. It remains relevant and is reproduced in full but with a couple of excisions made with regard to […]
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/ 30 November 2001
report rise in Aids cases Belinda Beresford Full-blown Aids cases are remorselessly rising at three of Gauteng’s premier teaching hospitals, suggesting that the huge levels of HIV infection are steadily translating into terminal illness. The University of the Witwatersrand revealed this week that the level of medical admissions to Helen Joseph hospital due to full-blown […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Having bagged a 1-2 in the Summer Cup, the richest race on the continent with Ingleside and Badger’s Coast, and the Dingaans with stardom-bound Flight Alert, Mike de Kock has shot into a R2-million lead over reigning champion David Ferraris in the drive for this season’s trainers’ title. There’s a long way to go before […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Latest figures estimate that by the end of the year there will 28-million people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa Belinda Beresford Knowing the enemy has failed to help in the battle against HIV. Two decades after the disease was identified, HIV/Aids continues to rampage its way across the world. The long incubation period of […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Kaizer Chiefs are aiming to win their fourth trophy this weekend and we’re not halfway through the season yet Ntuthuko Maphumulo There’s never been a better time to be a Kaizer Chiefs supporter. The newly crowned Coca-Cola Cup champions seek a clean sweep of all the trophies on offer this season, with their next target […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Magnus Heystek has sustained a final kick in the teeth over allegations that he abused a family trust. Mungo Soggot reports Magnus Heystek, the financial guru and former darling of the media, has paid a “very large” out-of-court settlement to two young boys after being accused of mismanaging and profiting from their family trust. Heystek’s […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Comment Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela President Thabo Mbeki’s speech at Fort Hare will lay nothing to rest. The president’s latest conspiracy theory on the Aids issue that Aids statistics have more to do with derogatory views (that “we” are “promiscuous carriers of germs” with an “unconquerable devotion to the sin of lust”) than sexual behaviour comes at […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Belinda Beresford Sitting alone behind his lawyers, hands frequently over his face, the director general of health often cut a forlorn figure in court this week. As the most senior civil servant in the Department of Health, Ayanda Ntsaluba had the unenviable task of being the front-line trooper in defending government policy that he did […]