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/ 4 February 2000
Brett Morris It was purely by accident that I found Peace in Jo’burg the other day. I was driving along Louis Botha Avenue, on my way to do all sorts of pre-planned Saturday afternoon things, when my clutch cable snapped. I managed to push my car on to a side street amid a barrage of […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Andrew MuchineripiSoccer The African Cup of Nations quarter-finals showdown between South Africa and Ghana in Kumasi on Sunday brings together teams that can only improve after disastrous endings to their mini-league programmes. I have never been more ashamed of wearing Bafana Bafana colours than in midweek, when even a first-minute goal from Shaun Bartlett could […]
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/ 4 February 2000
CD of the week One of Johannesburg’s most happening clubs, always packed to capacity, is 206, with its ever-impressive line-up of top musicians on the stage and talented DJs spinning the best acid jazz, drum’n’bass, jungle and the like. Now you can take the party home with the excellent album 206 Mix (Virgin), with its […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Fiona Macleod Mpumalanga province declared its first internationally protected wetlands on World Wetlands Day on Wednesday. The Verloren Vallei Nature Reserve, 10km north of Dullstroom, is the province’s first proposed Ramsar site. This means it will be recognised internationally as a wetland system of importance, and will be protected against degradation and development. “We started […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Fiona Macleod Controversial wildlife dealer Riccardo Ghiazza was arrested this week on charges of fraud and falsely obtaining South African citizenship. Ghiazza (46), the man at the centre of the Tuli elephant furore, appeared briefly in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for allegedly failing to declare he had a drug conviction in Italy when […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Fiona Macleod The Medical Research Council (MRC) is setting up a new primate unit at Delft in the Western Cape to breed baboons for medical research. The council says it is no longer internationally acceptable to use primates caught in the wild for experimentation, and it is setting up the new unit for “scientific and […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Peter Dickson Eastern Cape sangoma and self-styled direct royal descendant and chief Nicholas Tilana Gcaleka, who hit world headlines four years ago with his British hunt for the head of 19th-century Xhosa King Hintsa, has taken legal action to retrieve the skull from the University of Cape Town (UCT). But the UCT forensic medicine department’s […]
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/ 4 February 2000
Last week this paper published a story describing a form of slavery that is still very much alive and kicking in certain parts of the continent.
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/ 4 February 2000
Lionel Abrahams LIVING IN HOPE AND HISTORY: NOTES FROM OUR CENTURY by Nadine Gordimer (Bloomsbury) This is a gathering of Nadine Gordimer’s essays: reflections, reviews, tributes, conference papers, reports, letters and addresses to the United Nations, the Nobel Prize audience and other eminent bodies – the earliest from 1959 but most from the Eighties and […]
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/ 4 February 2000
MARK GLEESON, Kumasi | Friday 6.50pm. BAFANA Bafana defender Mark Fish and his teammates are relishing the prospect of playing in front of a hostile capacity home crowd against co-hosts Ghana in Sunday’s African Nations Cup quarter-final. ”There’s nothing better than to play against a full crowd that is against us,” said the England-based defender […]