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/ 3 November 2001

JO’BURG MAYOR GIVES DA THE COLD SHOULDER

THE Democratic Alliance has lost its bid to be represented on the City of Johannesburg’s mayoral committee, with a Johannesburg High Court ruling that the committee is legally constituted, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday. The DA brought the case against Johannesburg’s executive mayor Amos Masondo and the minister of provincial and local government. The […]

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/ 2 November 2001

‘e.tv is worse that Afghanistan’

GLENDA DANIELS AND DAVID MACFARLANE, Johannesburg | Friday A “cowboy style” management dictates the running of e.tv, causing a massive staff turnover that threatens the survival of the free-to-air broadcaster, staff members say. The controversial three-year-old TV station is racked by infighting. This, the shenanigans of top management and an ongoing financial crisis, say e.tv […]

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/ 2 November 2001

Teens set technology trends

Matt Haig One thing to have survived the dot.com slump intact is the obsession for e-business acronyms, and B2T, referring to the business-to-teenage online market, is the latest. As teenagers are typically receptive to new technologies, companies targeting this market are being advised to use the Internet not only as a medium to communicate their […]

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/ 2 November 2001

Stick it up your bumhole, Mr Editor

It is with much disgust that I note your lack of professionalism as an editor of a major South African publication when you tell Hansie Cronje to “fuck off”. A more objective and insightful view is what I would expect from an editor like yourself, but what should I be expecting from someone as crass […]

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/ 2 November 2001

State needs education

analysis Khadija Magardie Last week’s violence at the Zandspruit informal settlement in Gauteng, last month’s looting and burning of Somali-owned shops in Uitenhage and undoubtedly several undocumented attacks directed at foreigners, pose a serious question. Not whether locals become salivating mobs at the thought of a “kwere-kwere” moving in next door. But whether public education […]

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/ 2 November 2001

Santos in semis

Santos eliminated Ajax Cape Town to enter the semifinals of the Coca-Cola Cup Ntuthuko Maphumulo It took 90 minutes of regulation play, 29 minutes of extra time and a golden goal by Jean Marc Ithier on Wednesday to secure Santos a berth in the Coca-Cola Cup semifinal against Kaizer Chiefs this weekend. Ajax Cape Town […]