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/ 10 February 1998
TUESDAY, 11.30AM: PAUL Adams showed he is still in good form when he destroyed the Eastern Province batting with a haul of six wickets for 90 runs to help Western Province achieve a 123-run Supersport Series victory at Newlands on Monday. Adams’ figures would have been even more impressive, career best in fact, had ‘keeper […]
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/ 9 February 1998
MONDAY, 12.30PM: HELLENIC beat African Wanderers 3-2 at Kings Park soccer stadium on Sunday to ease their worries of relegation. The defeat further compounded the woes of Wanderers, who are facing serious relegation trouble. Hellenic were 1-2 down at half time, but managed to score twice in the second half without reply before a paltry […]
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/ 6 February 1998
The first phone system in space was completed last week, writes Tim Phillips At 1.29am last Saturday, Arianespace flight 105 blasted off from the European spaceport at Kourou, French Guyana. On board was a 2 000kg satellite destined for a 15-year mission 35 580km above the equator, where it completes man’s first telephone system built […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Andy Duffy African National Congress Western Cape leader Dullah Omar will resign this weekend, opening the door to a lively succession race and the possible dissolution of the party’s entire provincial leadership structure. The first public skirmish in the battle to fill Omar’s shoes broke out this week in two of the party’s most powerful […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Robert Kirby : Loose Cannon Now that the media blood pressure is dropping and the Bill Clinton/FW de Klerk/PW Botha emotional and sexual needs have been assessed in all their horrible detail, I think it’s time for a more informed look at these scandalous goings-on in high places. The first major peril of trying to […]
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/ 6 February 1998
David Shapshak Live in Johannesburg There’s something electric about the way Kaolin Thomson performs. She does very little dancing around — she’s surrounded by a keyboard, flute, saxophone and various percussion instruments, all of which she plays — but still manages to convey an explosiveness. She’s like a panther on stage. After all the hype […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Clandestine flights carrying arms and supplies to Unita in Angola will be curtailed after disclosures, reports John Grobler The arrest of nine South African men when their DC-4 was forced down by an Angolan Air Force Mig-21 at Menongue, the provincial capital of Cuando Cubango, two weeks ago, appears to have spelled the end — […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Julian Drew : Skiing Alex Heath, South Africa’s representative in Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics starting on Saturday, is not your ordinary sort of guy. In November 1996 he suffered a fractured skull and brain haemorrhage that put him in a coma for 18 hours after a fall from the climbing wall in the […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Stephen Ellis In large parts of West Africa, traditional secret societies, whose officers appear in public as masked dancers known as bush devils, are acquiring real political power once more after decades of decline. Some rural areas of Liberia and Guinea are dominated by leaders of the male secret society called Poro. In war-torn Sierra […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Kate Turkington INTO AFRICA: A Journey Through The Ancient Empires by Marq de Villiers and Shiela Hirtle (Jonathan Ball, R89,99) Analysing Africa is a bit like facing the many-headed Hydra. Just as you’ve got one section neatly disposed of, another rears up and puts you back where you started. Similarly, any book that attempts “to […]