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/ 6 February 1998
FRIDAY, 10.30AM: ALL-Africa pole vault record holder Okkert Brits has been suspended from competing in Friday night’s European indoor meeting in Germany after Athletics South Africa informed the International Amateur Athletics Federation that he is on SA’s team to take on Russia in a Test match in Pretoria on Saturday and therefore does not have […]
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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
Wonder Hlongwa The South African Red Cross Society’s national executive committee is sitting on an explosive report detailing maladministration, corruption, negligence, racism and nepotism — apparently in an attempt to cover up for colleagues who are implicated in it by name. The report details the inability of the Red Cross’s national director general, Keith Gower, […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Madelaine Wackernagel : Taking Stock Amazing how the pendulum swings. In the 1980s, the trend in business thinking was “the broader, the better”. This resulted in companies adding on, seemingly indisicriminately, diversifying all over the show. But then, with the help of the 1989 stock-market shake-out, came a new idea. Concentrate on core businesses; managing […]
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/ 6 February 1998
Michael Nurok It is 3am on Sunday and “Dr Davis”, an intern at a Western Cape hospital, has not stopped working since 8am the previous day. He is trying to resuscitate a child who has lost so much blood from an open fracture he is unconscious. Save the overburdened nursing staff, there is no one […]
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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
shot Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer What a difference two years makes. When South Africa hosted the 1996 African Nations Cup they had partisan support, familiar conditions, a settled team, a successful coach, and duly triumphed. While Jomo Sono, the former national star who succeeded Barker last month on a caretaker basis, speaks confidently of retaining […]
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/ 6 February 1998
They may disagree on the methods, but the world’s financial gurus are unanimous that the forces of globalisation must be reined in, writes Larry Elliot Like a new car that unexpectedly develops life-threatening faults, the 1997 model of globalisation has been recalled by the makers. The havoc wreaked in the Far East by the crisis […]