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/ 15 June 2000

Boks change one, Woodward makes two

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 5.00pm. THE Springboks will be without the services of prop Cobus Visagie when they take on England in the first of two Tests at Loftus in Pretoria on Saturday. Visagie is carrying a rib cartilage injury and has been sidelined to avoid aggravating the injury. Sarfu media liason Alex […]

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/ 15 June 2000

Mustard seed in the mud

Brenda Atkinson MARKETING THROUGH MUD AND DUST by Muzi Kuzwayo (Ink Inc) One would think that the advertising industry in South Africa would be at the frontier of research into selling products to black South Africans, the so- called “emerging market” of the post- apartheid era. But a pervasive cultural ignorance lingers and plays out, […]

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/ 15 June 2000

Cape court slams press freedom

Mail & Guardian reporter The Cape High Court has dealt a severe blow to press freedom by ruling that the reputation of an institution outweighed a reporter’s right to freedom of expression. The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and the Mail & Guardian are considering appealing against the decision, which upheld the expulsion of a […]

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/ 15 June 2000

King’s Spear hopes to cut down Bafana

Merryman Kunene SOCCER After many unsuccessful attempts to get a friendly game against Bafana Bafana, Swaziland will finally test their might against their more celebrated neighbours in a Cosafa Cup quarterfinal on Sunday in Witbank. Swaziland’s national team, popularly known as Sihlangu Semnikati (The King’s Spear) have longed to engage Bafana Bafana. However, they might […]

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/ 15 June 2000

S LEONE WON’T GO TO NIGERIA

UREGENT moves were afoot on Thursday to get the Sierra Leone national soccer team to travel to Nigeria for this weekend’s World Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles, sports ministry officials said. The statement came a day after the team refused to board the helicopter which should have taken them to the country’s international airport […]

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/ 15 June 2000

The city that lives in fear

Fuel shortages, roadblocks, hijackings and intimidation are all part of daily life in Harare. Mercedes Sayagues reports I returned to Harare after two weeks in Latin America and found a city that lives in fear. Many – I am one – fear when the needle on the fuel indicator drops below half a tank. Grief, […]

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/ 15 June 2000

Gross and grosser

The United States’s biggest selling soundtracks of all time: 1 The Bodyguard (1992, $16-million). Spawned the monster/monstrous I Will Always Love You plus four other hits, now all back with a vengeance on Whitney Houston’s current No 1 Greatest Hits set. The United States’s ninth-biggest-selling album of all time. 2 Saturday Night Fever (1977, $15- […]

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/ 15 June 2000

AFRICAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS

WORLD Cup qualifiers being played in Africa this weekend. Group A At Luanda: Angola v Zambia At Tripoli: Libya v Cameroon Bye: Togo Group B At Lagos: Nigeria v Sierra Leone At Omdurman: Sudan v Liberia Bye: Ghana Group C At Annaba: Algeria v Senegal At Windhoek: Namibia v Morocco Bye: Egypt Group D At […]

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/ 15 June 2000

Music with a mission

Soundtracks are an integral part of movies and their promotion. Scott Hughes traces their track record They’d never done it before. But, with a screening of some rough footage, and, no doubt, a big white grin, Tom Cruise managed to persuade United States rock giants Metallica – for the first time in their two-decade career […]

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/ 15 June 2000

Britain sees the big picture

The world’s largest modern art museum is now open Adrian Searle The opening of Tate Modern is a watershed in the cultural life of Britain. It signals the importance of the art of our times, and its centrality in British culture. Unlike most of the big cities and capitals of the Western world, London has […]