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/ 9 October 2002

Nigerian newspaper group bids for CNA

A major Nigerian newspaper group has emerged as one of the four leading bidders in the final round to take control of the 106-year-old South African Central News Agency (CNA), the group said on Wednesday here. This Day newspaper was established about seven years ago and is one of the most influential and widely-read national […]

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/ 8 October 2002

A matter of life and death

Don’t be fooled into thinking soccer is just a game. I have to confess that I don’t know much about sport. I was actually thrown out of the three-legged race in primary school for persistently trying to let my partner do all the running. It went downwards from there.

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/ 8 October 2002

Race row in paradise

A man with no clothes on is bound to be slippery. When I called Beau Brummell on the cell number at the bottom of his hand-written press release, it took some time for the man himself to come to the phone. The lady who answered politely asked me to hang on while she located him.

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/ 8 October 2002

The refugee who bust the bank

George Soros’s understanding of global finance is rivalled only by that of Alan Greenspan. He didn’t exactly look like one of the richest men in the world. In fact, he looked like a wandering Hungarian Jewish refugee of around 1947 — a casual check jacket worn over an unremarkable blue shirt.

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/ 8 October 2002

Inkatha now wants in on Aids ‘muti’

The Inkatha Freedom Party has decided to invest in Hypo-Plus, a controversial product that claims to be effective in the treatment of HIV/Aids. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> revealed last week that the ANC’s Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association was linked to a company involved in marketing Hypo-Plus.