Staff Reporter
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/ 12 June 1998

SA’s state-of-the-art stargazer

Lesley Cowling A new state-of-the-art telescope to be built in the Karoo will give South African astronomers a window seat on the furthest journey yet through southern skies. The construction of the R100-million Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) at Sutherland, approved by Cabinet last week, means local cosmologists can now maintain their position at the […]

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/ 12 June 1998

Mbuli: I knew too much

Tangeni Amupadhi The People’s Poet, Mzwakhe Mbuli, believes he may have been set up on robbery charges because he was poised to blow the whistle on a drugs and gun-running ring involving top government officials. This week Mbuli shed some light on a smuggling conspiracy between South Africa and Swaziland as a possible reason why […]

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/ 12 June 1998

It’s only

a game Shaun de Waal Soccer CD of the week When the words “World Cup” come up in conversation, I usually have to ask politely which sport is involved. Okay, it has now been drummed into me that most of the world is presently focusing its attention on a series of soccer games in France. […]

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/ 12 June 1998

Surviving the World Cup

Soccer legend Ruud Gullit gives his views on how to survive the biggest soccer event of its kind The most important thing is to take the first round very seriously indeed. It is not just a matter of getting the lesser nations out of the way before the real fun starts: teams that think that […]

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/ 12 June 1998

Haden’s powers

Ronald Atkins Jazz CDs of the week Discussing jazz and how the free-wheeling Sixties changed the rules, the double bass is often singled out for its newly liberated role. Regarded as the workhorses of bebop, pounding the beat in the background, bassists now moved towards the front. As a member of Ornette Coleman’s original quartet, […]

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/ 12 June 1998

Taking to the road again

Charl Blignaut On stage in Johannesburg `Eskus me,” says a heavily pregnant Lila Luna-Skya in her bruised and broken English, “Uh know is not very glamorous when you hav to give birth on stage .” But I mean what can a girl do? Particularly when she’s a foreigner in a foreign country. And not just […]

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/ 12 June 1998

Welcome the watchdog’s bark

In the hierarchy of crimes it is the murderer who is regarded with particular distaste and in the pantheon of murderers there is none who evokes quite as much horror as the poisoner. There is, therefore, something inevitable about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission winding up its work with the disclosure of a poisoning conspiracy […]

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/ 12 June 1998

A brighter, wealthier future

Carlton Centre in downtown Johannesburg is flooded by hundreds of young people during weekends. They file around the circular ring at the entrance on the first floor where they peer admiringly at displays of shiny new BMWs two floors below. Others mill around the corridors, visiting shop windows and restaurants. The scene is repeated in […]

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/ 12 June 1998

`One day I’ll be rich like them’

Our young sport stars have become role models for their fans, writes Bongani Siqoko They may not be big stars and big names in the league of Ronaldo, Mike Tyson or Tiger Woods yet, but they are certainly riding the crest of the wave in their chosen sports. They are still young and have a […]

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/ 12 June 1998

Digging for the facts

Right to Reply NSGMinerals (Pty)Ltd: We refer to your article “De Beers took my mine” (June 5 to 11). Most of the facts in that article are mis-stated and misleading. Our intervention over Marsfontein was certainly not an attempt to “wrest control of the mining rights from SouthernEra” – SouthernEra has never had ownership of […]