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/ 28 October 2001
A SPY satellite was blasted into space late on Wednesday atop an Air Force Atlas II AS rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Floriday, a military representative said on Thursday. The satellite belonged to the National Reconnaissance Office, the intelligence agency responsible for the government’s spy satellites, said Lieutenant Colonel Joe Lamarca, a representative for the […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Big-budget movie of the week: Forget the advance publicity, which makes America’s Sweethearts look rather ordinary, and go and enjoy the spectacle of Hollywood laughing at itself, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 26 October 2001
Low-budget movie of the week:</b> <i>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</i> is the sort of stack-heeled walk on the wild side that <i>Velvet Goldmine</i> should have been and yet never quite was; a posturing film glamour that’s at once funny and sad, brash and sensitive, writes Xan Brooks.
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/ 26 October 2001
Niki Moore The women of the Sokhulu community on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast would harvest mussels by sneaking into the intertidal zone and indiscriminately scraping the rocks with a panga. Large mussels, small mussels, other rock-bound marine life all would be swept off and bagged in haste. All the time someone would keep an eye […]
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/ 26 October 2001
This indigenous fruit is the source of an income-generating project in the Northern Province, writes Thuli Nhlapo A plan hatched by retrenched union members and their employer in 1998 to promote job creation in Northern Province’s poverty-stricken communities has started to bear fruit. In the past year R340 000 has been spent on buying an […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Barry Streek Analysts are expecting lower economic growth projections and continued caution over public spending when Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel presents his medium-term budget policy statement next week. The statement, an assessment of government spending during the current financial year and a three-year spending projection, will be presented on Tuesday. Former senior Department of […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Bongani Majola Vodacom has chosen unlikely beneficiaries for its corporate social investment programme prisoners. Together with the Readucate Trust, a Section 18a educational and literacy non-profit organisation, the Vodacom Foundation has ploughed R250 000 into a basic literacy training programme that is envisaged to benefit at least 600 young prisoners in Gauteng. The donation by […]
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/ 26 October 2001
CRICKET Peter Robinson So this is how the weekend went: on Friday news broke that Mfuneko Ngam had suffered yet another stress fracture, this time of his right tibia; on Saturday Allan Donald pulled up with a stomach-muscle strain; on Monday Nantie Hayward announced his return to international cricket with a fair bit of pace […]
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/ 26 October 2001
As he gets the upper hand in his party’s internal war, Tony Leon is turning the screws on his deputy Howard Barrell and Marianne Merten Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon is demanding the complete dissolution of the New National Party, and his senior colleagues are insisting that NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk faces disciplinary action. […]
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/ 26 October 2001
* There are 14 training centres offering the programme, run by the national and provincial education departments. Centres are in the Eastern Cape (Bisho), Free State (Sasolburg), Gauteng (Soshanguve, Soweto, Alexandra, Atteridgeville), KwaZulu-Natal (Nqutu, Bergvile), Mpumalanga (Lekazi), North West (Mmabatho, Rustenburg), Northern Cape (Kimberley) and Northern Province (Giyani, Hoxani). ENDS