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/ 28 November 1997
Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer The first final of the richest domestic club competition in African soccer demands worthy participants, and Kaizer Chiefs and Sundowns certainly fit the bill for the Rothmans Cup climax at FNB Stadium on Saturday. Sundowns lead the national championship by one point from Bush Bucks as the halfway mark approaches and […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Biosphere II was a vision of the future that failed. Now, Jim McClellan reports, it has been reclaimed by mainstream scientists The huge sheets of cheap plastic look out of place hanging in Biosphere II, the sealed glass ecosystem in the Arizona desert, built at enormous expense and once hailed as a high-tech temple of […]
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/ 28 November 1997
processors Steve Shipside It’s a depressingly familiar scenario. Your film comes back with 10 underdeveloped pictures, 10 overdeveloped, three shots of your thumb, and four cases of red-eye that make close family members look like Zoltan, Hound of Dracula. Precisely that disappointment is driving the digital photography market, says Steve Hoffenberg, director of the Digital […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Intel maintains its dominance of the microchip market by suing companies that compete with it. Tim Jackson tells the story of one of these battles In the mid-1980s, George Hwang decided to start a new business combining his own expertise in process technology and manufacturing with the talents of Bob Woo, a friend with an […]
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/ 28 November 1997
The Generations leading actor has `committed suicide’, write Charl Blignaut and Janet Smith This week, notorious advertising executive Hilda Letlalo unceremoniously committed suicide in an SABC studio – and viewers of South Africa’s most popular locally produced soap opera won’t get a chance to see her demise. That’s because Vinoliah Mashego, the award- winning TV […]
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/ 28 November 1997
office Chris McGreal in Kinshasa Beyond the grave, and from his own bedroom, Mobutu Sese Seko is being pursued. Investigators, tracking down billions of rands of cash and property that were plundered by the late Zairean ruler and his cronies, have installed themselves in one of their early finds – a house Mobutu gave to […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Company Market capitalisation (R) African Harvest 1 848 000 000 African Life Assurance 3 867 469 814 Botswana Rst 4 494 820 Capital Alliance Holdings 3 284 101 143 Carson Holdings 1 187 700 749 FBC Holdings 477 048 343 Hosken Consolidated Investments 1 177 066 683 JCI 2 523 065 577 Johnnies Industrial Corp […]
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/ 28 November 1997
FRIDAY, 2.20PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S last wickets fell quickly on Friday afternoon, taking the team to 468 all out, with Pat Symcox reaching 54. Western Australia have started off strongly, with 117 for 1 wicket at close of play on the second day. FRIDAY, 9.35AM: South Africa cruised to 440/7 at lunch on the second day […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Andy Duffy The president’s office is paving the way for Nelson Mandela to break his promise to South Africa that no teachers would be kicked out of their jobs. Department of Education officials and teaching unions both view the president’s promise, made last year, as binding and a key political obstacle to dismissing state teachers. […]
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/ 28 November 1997
evil In an extract from his book, Into the Heart of Darkness, journalist Jacques Pauw describes his meeting with Paul van Vuuren, whose only regrets were that he lost the war, was exposed and had to confess It is Sunday lunch on the farm “Drooglaagte” west of Warmbaths in the Northern Transvaal bushveld. The burly, […]