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/ 1 September 2006
Delays in the Gautrain project cost construction group Murray & Roberts (M&R) R500-million in lost revenue in the past financial year, media reports said on Friday. M&R is part of the Bombela consortium, which won the contract for the R20-billion Gautrain project. Its share is worth R4,5-billion.
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/ 1 September 2006
The task team appointed to assess the fiscal regime applicable to windfall profits in the liquid-fuel sector is expected to report to government only at the end of September, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said on Friday. It is also premature to comment on the impact of the proposed tax.
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/ 1 September 2006
The advent of micro-countries introduced a new terror to international football. You could beat them and still be humiliated. Fifteen years ago Scotland won 2-0 in San Marino, but the goals took a while to come. The game is remembered for the drawl of the late Ian Archer in a radio broadcast: ”We’ve been playing for an hour and it has just occurred to me that we’re drawing 0-0 with a mountain top.”
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/ 1 September 2006
If there is a silver lining to last week’s 45-26 defeat by the All Blacks it is that Springbok coach Jake White has recognised the need for a total overhaul. This week’s line-up to play New Zealand near Rustenburg contains five changes and a positional switch. If you wanted to be hypercritical you might argue that White has not been severe enough in his pruning.
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/ 1 September 2006
I first took notice of Andre Agassi during the 1988 French Open, a tournament I particularly remember as it coincided with my last meaningful attempt to get fit. I’d installed an exercise bicycle in front of the telly so I could watch tennis while I pedalled my way to nowhere.
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/ 1 September 2006
The competition to see who can slather Bob Dylan’s 32nd studio album with the most deranged praise known to man is hotting up, writes Alexis Petridis.
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/ 1 September 2006
Mvelaphanda Group has advised shareholders that headline earnings per ordinary share for the year ended June 30 2006 are expected to be up approximately 125% to between 315 cents per ordinary share and 325 cents per ordinary share from the previous comparable period.
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/ 1 September 2006
In Hollywood movies, a single plot twist is no longer considered sufficient: the first surprise is the down payment on a more amazing revelation. Off-screen events now follow the same logic: Mel Gibson’s drunk, anti-Semitic rant simply began the widening of eyes that now gape fully with the news that Viacom-Paramount is abandoning its production […]
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/ 1 September 2006
Lloyd Gedye attends a perfomance by The Hellphones and ends up feeling cheated.
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/ 1 September 2006
Branford Marsalis, McCoy Mrubata, Greg Georgiades and Paul Hanmer may not have planned things this way. But as sometimes happens in the Republic of Bohemia, they find themselves firmly the focus of debate at dinner tables, where conversation revolves around the question: What is jazz? Marsalis took Sunday Times journalist Bongani Madondo to task for […]