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/ 15 January 1999
David Beresford highlights aspects of FW de Klerk’s soon to be released autobiography, in which the former state president describes his stormy relationship with the `vicious’ Nelson Mandela Former state president FW de Klerk has prepared a broadside against President Nelson Mandela in their long-running feud over their respective places in history, with his long-awaited […]
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/ 15 January 1999
When Mike Tyson steps into the ring in Las Vegas this Sunday, it will be the former world heavyweight champion’s first fight since spitting out a chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear. Michael Ellison reports from New York The very name, even shorn of its all- too-shameful associations, is blunt and menacing, abbreviated like a sawn-off […]
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/ 15 January 1999
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Friday 5.40pm. MARK BOUCHER reached his century off 177 balls and 16 boundaries. This puts South Africa at 301/8 after 86 overs. This is Boucher’s maiden Test century. Kallis was finally dismissed by Chanderpaul after 86 runs and 7 boundaries. He averaged 65 runs per over while not out. Boucher is […]
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/ 15 January 1999
places Andy Capostagno Golf The Alfred Dunhill PGA Championship returns to Houghton Golf Club in Johannesburg this week and, festive season ennui and geographical impossibilities notwithstanding, it marks the beginning of both the Vodacom Southern African and the Volvo European PGA Tours for 1999. This is the fourth year that the event has been co-sanctioned […]
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/ 15 January 1999
before profit >From PAGE 39 His offices were recently robbed, yet the only item stolen was his Iscor file containing all his correspondence with the company. Winterbach also recently discovered sand in the sump of his aeroplane. “It’s not fair to point the finger of suspicion at anyone,” he says, “but this has never happened […]
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/ 15 January 1999
Mark Milner Soccer Ajax, the Dutch football club, this week claimed a world first with the purchase of a South African soccer club with the aim of nurturing young talent. Under the terms of a franchising agreement, Ajax, which is quoted on the Amsterdam stock exchange, is taking a 51% stake in Ajax Cape Town, […]
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/ 15 January 1999
Trainspotting made Irvine Welsh cool with its portrayal of drug-fuelled Scottish low-life. But don’t mistake the creator for his characters: he’s had a job in local government and even deals in property. Can he hack it as a novelist, though? Critics say his new book may be his last chance to prove himself. By Andy […]
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/ 15 January 1999
Local tribespeople have rejected a company’s bid to mine titanium in a pristine area of the Eastern Cape, but it seems that the company can’t take no for an answer, write James Black and Arlene Cameron On the Wild Coast south of Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape there is a small estuary of […]
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/ 15 January 1999
Theatre: Chris Roper When you take your seat under the sky for the opening scene of As You Like It, this year’s offering at Maynardville, you can’t help but be intrigued. On stage is an aerobics floor, three exercise cycles, a juice bar, and Health and Racquet Club and Reebok flags fluttering in the Cape […]
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/ 14 January 1999
TWO Italian Roman Catholic missionaries who were abducted recently in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown have been freed, the missionary news agency Misna reported here on Wednesday.They have been taken to a site near Freetown’s airport on Wednesday.Maurizio Boa and Giuliano Pini, who belong to the Giuseppini del Murialdo order, were abducted on Sunday. A third […]