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/ 9 November 2001
The Cape summer season gathers momentum with the R125 000 grade 2 Odessa Stud Fillies Championship for three-year-olds over 1 400m at Kenilworth on Saturday, and the scene could be set for settling a couple of old scores. Mike Azzie has engaged Jeff Lloyd to ride his promising filly Bridal Paths and the Highveld-based trainer […]
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/ 9 November 2001
analysis Evidence wa ka Ngobeni In South Africa any political party that seeks to challenge the African National Congress’s power base needs to attract sizeable numbers of black voters. The political turmoil within the Democratic Alliance in the past few weeks has dealt a heavy blow to the Democratic Party’s aspirations for power. The withdrawal […]
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/ 9 November 2001
A play written during the Nazi Holocaust is finally having its premiere half a century late in Cape Town this weekend Guy Willoughby Puppetry is a neglected activity in South Africa. ”Is it for kids?” is the invariable response when a new show is mounted, but internationally it’s an art form of vast expressive possibility. […]
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/ 9 November 2001
South Africa would not depict itself as being different from the rest of Africa to potential investors, SA Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said in Pretoria on Thursday. He said on his travels abroad potential investors often encouraged South Africa to portray itself as such — ”to show that we are special Africans”. ”We have […]
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/ 9 November 2001
Drew Forrest’s article, ”A blow to opposition politics”, (November 2) is a disgraceful piece of journalism. Forrest should not have disregarded the first rule of good journalism: get both sides of the story. His piece relies almost exclusively on ”sources” close to Marthinus Van Schalkwyk. Consequently it just regurgitates Van Schalkwyk’s disingenuous take on events. […]
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/ 9 November 2001
Mungo Soggot The doyenne of South African liberalism, Helen Suzman, this week said ”good riddance” to the New National Party after its split from the Democratic Alliance. Suzman, who opposed from the start the merger last year of the Democratic Party and the NNP to form the DA, says the brief marriage will have damaged […]
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/ 9 November 2001
THE retail price of all grades of petrol increased by four cents per litre on Wednesday. The wholesale price of diesel increased by seven cents per litre and the wholesale price of illuminating paraffin by nine cents per litre. The Minerals and Energy Department said on Tuesday that the 6,8% transport tariff increases would also […]
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/ 9 November 2001
SOCCER Ntuthuko Maphumulo Bafana Bafana’s international friendlies under the guidance of coach Carlos Queiroz this year have not produced the results required from the professor. The team lost to Italy in a closely fought match, then got a drubbing from Sweden. Since Queiroz took over the hot seat Bafana have won six games, drawn five […]
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/ 8 November 2001
Not since Tom Wolfe called John Updike a pile of old bones has the United States literary scene witnessed such a catfight, writes Lawrence Donegan.
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/ 8 November 2001
Black empowerment corporation Nail, which formed a new arm dubbed New African Media Films last year, started shooting its first movie on October 1, writes Andrew Worsdale.