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/ 26 November 2004
First it was vintage heavy metal T-shirts, then came leg warmers and Lycra. Now old cellphones have become the retro fashion accessory to be seen with. Twenty years after Britain’s first cellphone call was made technology has leapt forward, but hipsters and homebodies alike are rejecting flashy new models in favour of tried-and-trusted phone favourites.
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/ 26 November 2004
I drink Diet Coke. It makes me feel good. It helps me retain my boyish figure. It calms me down. It peps me up. It sings me to sleep at night. I love Diet Coke. I want Diet Coke. I need Diet Coke. Advertising people will say this is because of branding. Breweries, currently shacking up with fellow booze pimp Miller, seemed to have got branding down to a fine art. Until Justin Nurse and Laugh It Off.
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/ 26 November 2004
HIV/Aids is taking a bite out of profits throughout corporate South Africa, with the already embattled mining sector particularly hard hit. According to a report by the South African Business Coalition on HIV and Aids (Sabcoha) released this week, 62% of mines surveyed by the Bureau for Economic Research indicated that the epidemic is already hurting their bottom lines.
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/ 26 November 2004
Patrice Motsepe may not have been there to sign off on the decision, but Nafhold has finally agreed on a way to distribute its shares to members. Motsepe skipped the meeting that made the decision, in a move seen by some insiders as a sign he is still unhappy with the share allocation. The move nevertheless is seen as the beginning of the end of a long-standing dispute.
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/ 26 November 2004
When Joyce Mujuru became Zimbabwe’s first and youngest female Cabinet minister soon after independence in 1980, she had no academic qualifications. Mujuru was one of 12 children born to a peasant family in Mount Darwin. She opted out of school at age 18 against her parents wishes to join the liberation army, adopting the name Teurai Ropa, which literally means to "spill blood".
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/ 26 November 2004
"Mention the name Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and the name Stompie Seipei immediately comes to many a South African mind. The death of this child activist in 1989 will hang around Nelson Mandela’s former wife’s neck for the rest of her life." Journalists and political analysts struggled to understand that ordinary people still loved and adored Winnie, despite this dark stain on her record, writes Max du Preez.
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/ 26 November 2004
The Zanu-PF old guard has awoken from its slumber ahead of the party’s crucial congress in Harare next week and achieved what many world leaders, including President Thabo Mbeki, have been unable to do: summons President Robert Mugabe and get him to act on their advice. Surrounded by trusted former liberation war fighters, Mugabe relented and endorsed their candidate for the one vacant vice-presidential post.
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/ 26 November 2004
A month that began with a promise of log domination and a semifinal place in the Coca-Cola Cup for Sundowns ends with neither. A loss to Orlando Pirates in the Premier Soccer League and defeat by Wits in the quarterfinal of the Coke Cup has left Sundowns’s pride battered. Coach Paul Dolezar has had to get police protection and owner Patrice Motsepe is throwing his hands in the air in disgust.
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/ 26 November 2004
Four years after the murder of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso, his legacy in investigating corruption has cast a shadow over the campaign for next week’s election. At the time of his death he had been investigating how more than -million had disappeared from Mozambique’s formerly state-owned banks during the privatisation process of the 1990s.
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/ 26 November 2004
One of the biggest surprises of the Namibian elections has been that Hifikepunye Pohamba, the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) presidential candidate, polled more votes than his party despite persistent references that he is a puppet of the more popular Sam Nujoma. Even during the election campaign Pohamba kept a low profile.