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/ 18 February 2000
Bell Hooks BODY LANGUAGE In her first book, The Bluest Eye, novelist Toni Morrison identifies the idea of romantic love as one ”of the most destructive ideas in the history of modern thought”. Its destructiveness resides in the notion that we come to love with no will and no capacity to choose. This illusion, perpetuated […]
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/ 18 February 2000
STANDARD Bank Investment Corporation (Stanbic) said on Friday that its appeal against a potentially harmful court judgment in a hostile takeover battle with smaller rival Nedcor will be heard next month. ”The Appeal Court hearing will take place on March 23 and 24 in Bloemfontein,” a Stanbic spokesman said. Lawyers had warned that it might […]
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/ 17 February 2000
The trio behind Trainspotting has made a movie with a bona fide mega-star. Now their future together rests on the shoulders of Leonardo DiCaprio. Simon Hattenstone gets the inside story on The Beach.
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/ 17 February 2000
ALBIE Morkel, Easterns’ 19-year-old opening bowler, led his team to a 39-run victory over Free State with a match-winning performance in their limited-overs day-night match in Bloemfontein. After choosing to bat, Easterns scored 163/9, to which Free State replied with a paltry 124-all out. Morkel was the bane of the Free State batting and produced […]
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/ 17 February 2000
“YOU” magazine and community radio station 786 have been summonsed to appear before the SA Human Rights Commission to testify over alleged racism in the media. The editors of five newspapers, including the Mail & Gurdian, Die Burger, Cape Argus and Cape Times, have already been subpoenaed to appear before the commission in Johannesburg next […]
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/ 17 February 2000
GAUTENG skipper Ken Rutherford was at his menacing best when he whipped 71 runs from 65 balls to lead his side to a 16-run win over Northerns at the Wanderers on Wednesday. Gauteng were sent in to bat, and posted a formiddable 243/6 in their 45 overs. Northerns could only manage 227/9 in reply, with […]
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/ 17 February 2000
THE court case against three suspects who are charged with the abduction and murders on the Fairheads near Port Alfred has been postponed to March 1. Bongani Tom, 22, his brother Solani, 21 and a 17-year-old youth remain in custody. Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead and her daughter Kia, 11, were attacked and strangled near […]
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/ 17 February 2000
CATS coach Laurie Mains has named a shadow side for the team’s final warm-up match against Free State in Bloemfontein on Friday. The team to face Free State will in all likelihood be much the same as the side that opens the Cats’ Super 12 campaign at Loftus on February 26. Mains has left out […]
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/ 17 February 2000
FINANCIAL troubles at builder Stocks & Stocks Ltd did not betray a wider malaise in the local sector, which is expected to grow by four percent in 2000. “The situation at Stocks has no real influence on what’s going to happen in the industry,” said Building Industries Federation of South Africa (Bifsa) director Ian Robinson. […]
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/ 17 February 2000
THE judge hearing the murder and fraud trial of apartheid scientist Wouter Basson has refused to stand down, describing a prosecutor’s claims that he is biased as “absurd”. Judge Willie Hartzenberg said in the Pretoria High Court there are no grounds for the state’s claim that he had pre-judged the case. Delivering judgment on an […]