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nytimes.com“Mo-FFIES!” chant the soldiers, precisely lined up under a baking sun, as a screaming sergeant reviles two men reported to be lovers. “Mo-ffies!
Mo-ffies! Mo-ffies!” The word is a homophobic slur in Afrikaans, and the scene comes about 30 minutes into Oliver Hermanus’s new film, “Moffie.” It depicts South Africa in the early 1980s, when the country’s white government saw threats from the communists at the border, terrorists at home and the anti-apartheid movement worldwide.
Every white man over 16 had to do two years of military service, and “Moffie” suggests the story of a generation through the shy recruit Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer).
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Ontdekker aidsvirus Luc Montagnier (89) overleden
De ontdekker van het aidsvirus, de Franse wetenschapper Luc Montagnier, is overleden. Hij won met die ontdekking uit 1983 de Nobelprijs voor Geneeskunde in 2008.
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