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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
Several million people and their families will be affected by the listings of South Africa’s two largest life insurance groups on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) within the next 18 months. For more than a year market observers have been expecting Sanlam and Old Mutual to announce their plans to demutualise and list on the […]
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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
Wally Lambert As stock markets across the globe continue to react with no apparent logic to troubles in the East, there are few investors who haven’t considered cashing in their unit trusts for a holiday destination where nobody’s heard of “Asian flu”. Others will be looking to their “friendly” financial advisers while scouring the economic […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Philippa Garson Etienne Marais, a director in the Safety and Security Secretariat found guilty last week of sexually abusing two girls, will face a disciplinary hearing or be dismissed, unless he resigns first. Marais, chief director of liaison and communication, was found guilty of masturbating in front of two girls, aged seven and 12 at […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Shaun de Waal CD of the week Despite the recent lionisation of (Sir) Paul McCartney, mostly on the back of a bunch of old Beatles leftovers, he is still less interesting than the other half of pop’s most famous songwriting partnership. John Lennon’s post-Beatles output was uneven (blame Yoko!), but at least he kept pushing […]
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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 […]