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/ 3 September 2004
The doom-mongers may complain that commercial pressures and a growing reluctance to annoy the posh neighbours are stealing the soul of the Notting Hill Carnival. But though the weather was more autumnal than Caribbean, the crowds flocked back to the festival as it celebrated its 40th birthday from August 28 to 29. The event drew a crowd of an estimated one million people.
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/ 3 September 2004
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> The poster slogan for <i>King Arthur</i> sells it as "The untold true story that inspired the legend". While there is some intellectual texture and moral fibre, as it were, to the story, much else is botched, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 3 September 2004
Madrid, Milan, Valencia, Porto, and Roma: you can’t beat Europe for the big football match atmosphere and one of sport’s greatest occasions. Now that footie season is upon us, <i>Escape</i> scouts the cities that will host the season’s glamour games.
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/ 3 September 2004
Once upon a time there was a wonderful land where the loveliest of rainbows was always in the sky. Even at night this loveliest of rainbows shed its gentle and healing light on the happy people who lived under it. There were two kinds of happy people living in The Land of the Loveliest Rainbow: the Lucky Few and the Unlucky Many. And they couldn’t be more different …
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/ 3 September 2004
Maria Ramos’s plans to revamp the underperforming transport parastatal look certain to run into staunch resistance from the labour movement. Jane Barrett of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, has slammed Transnet’s proposed restructuring as based on flawed premises and lacking full assessment of the social impact. The Transnet CEO’s war with labour has just begun.
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/ 3 September 2004
Record monthly sales in new vehicles, a continued recovery of the manufacturing sector and brisk growth in credit demand indicate that the South African economy is on a roll. Further evidence of manufacturing growth came on Wednesday, when the Investec Purchasing Manufacturing Index (PMI) remained at 59 points, its highest level this year.
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/ 3 September 2004
Three of the five drivers of the African rescue plan, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), had their work cut out this week dealing with conflict and crisis on the continent. President Thabo Mbeki took no fewer than seven of his Cabinet members to Kinshasa for the bi-national commission aimed at beefing up political and economic ties with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 3 September 2004
Professor Bruce of the Philosophy Department at the University of Wallamalloo (Queensland), most famous for his theories on the drinking habits of Aristotle, would have succinctly described conditions in Athens last weekend, as the games came to a close, as: “It’s hot enough to boil a monkey’s bum.”
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/ 3 September 2004
Listening to Metropolitan Trading Company (MTC) CEO Keith Atkins, one might think the City of Johannesburg had brought its street traders under control.
British-born Atkins has inherited daunting challenges from Rory Robertshaw, the previous head of the council-owned MTC. After piloting the city’s first "modern" market in Yeoville’s Rockey Street for R5-million, Robertshaw called it quits.
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/ 3 September 2004
When Tokyo Sexwale sits down in the foyer of the Sandton Crowne Plaza hotel in Johannesburg to talk football, he lifts his right foot towards his chest and gesticulates while saying, "<i>Isoccer yimi</i> — I am soccer, <i>ngikhule ngiteka itennis</i> — I used to play with the tennis ball." Black business is taking corporate responsibility on to the soccer field.