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/ 21 May 1999

Top IFP leaders are ANC moles

Ivor Powell More than 20 senior leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal have secretly defected to the African National Congress before the June election. A top ANC leader in the province told the Mail & Guardian that at least six of the turncoats are members of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature. The group also includes […]

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/ 21 May 1999

Giving South Africa its soul back

Marianne Merten It was a bitter-sweet moment this week for 12 Cape Town families who finally received compensation for their homes and land lost to the Group Areas Act more than 30 years ago. Bitter, because most of them cannot return to the homes they lost when the apartheid government declared they were not white […]

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/ 21 May 1999

Cats stole Stormers’ thunder, but that

was last week Andy Capostagno Rugby The sound of Newlands last Sunday was the sound of crumbs of comfort being swept up. Yes, the Stormers had lost to the Cats, but no one got badly injured, the bonus point for a close loss ensured a home semi-final and other results meant that the Crusaders were […]

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/ 21 May 1999

Awards miss first prize

There’s room for improvement at the South African Music Awards. Peter Makurube has some suggestions On May 13 the South African music industry took time off at the Sun City Superbowl to pat itself on the back. Unlike the cultural boycott busting days, the audience was at least representative of the country’s population. The who’s […]

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/ 21 May 1999

Welcome back to the warm Garden of Eden

There’s no need to worry about global warming, argues Dennis Avery. History shows it will lead to great benefits `Climate extremes would trigger meteorological chaos – raging hurricanes such as we have never seen, capable of killing millions of people; uncommonly long, record-breaking heat waves; and profound drought that could drive Africa and the entire […]

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/ 21 May 1999

Bowie’s latest role: gameboy

Tom McGhie Computer games company Eidos has teamed up with rock star David Bowie, his wife Iman, and the best-selling author Michael Crichton in two deals designed to create hit games. Eidos has signed a long-term publishing deal with Timeline Studios, North Carolina, for games based on original material to be written by Timeline co-founder […]

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/ 21 May 1999

More power than we can handle

Intel’s next chips will be too clever for today’s programs. Jack Schofield reports on a scheme to help rewrite the way we work The PC industry is preparing a great leap forward that will more than double the power of computers. The problem is that there is hardly any software to exploit the extra capability. […]

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/ 21 May 1999

Kruger Park manager `cut off elephants’

feet’ Sharon Hammond A senior manager in the Kruger National Park was accused this week of being a foul- mouthed tyrant who terrified his staff members and tortured animals. The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) heard in Nelspruit that the trails and information manager, Bruce Bryden, allegedly cut off the feet of elephants […]

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/ 21 May 1999

REBELS ATTACK AHEAD OF TRUCE

LESS than a week before a ceasefire is to begin in Sierra Leone, rebels launched two attacks near the eastern city of Kenema, the pro-government Ecomog intervention force said on Thursday. Ecomog spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Olukolade said the first attack occurred on Wednesday at Mano Junction, just north of Kenema, 240km east of the capital, […]

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/ 21 May 1999

The grand ruler of the racecourse

The greater the risk, the more he revels in the challenge. Adam Sweeting profiles Formula One’s ambitious mastermind, Bernie Ecclestone Such is Bernie Ecclestone’s reputation as the shadowy mastermind behind Formula One, that it is tempting to think he personally orchestrated the chaos of the season’s opening event in Melbourne. “You couldn’t have wished for […]