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/ 22 June 2001

UK soccer veterans lend helping hand

Neal Collins Ian Wright will lead a 16-strong squad of England veterans to South Africa later this month as Britain pitches in to help the victims of the Ellis Park disaster. The team will play a charity match at King’s Park rugby stadium in Durban on June 28 with the proceeds going to the families […]

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/ 22 June 2001

A very rare Goose

Michael Vlismas in Tulsa golf On a steamy Monday evening in the week of the 101st United States Open, a man with a strange accent booked into the Doubletree hotel in Tulsa. “It’s like Goose with an N,” he explained to the check-in clerk, who had never heard of him, nor had any interest in […]

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/ 22 June 2001

BHP Billiton gives Mozal II the nod

Construction of the new smelter will commence immediately and commissioning is scheduled for late 2003 Stewart Bailey BHP Billiton on Thursday announced its first major project as a merged entity giving the go-ahead for the construction of its $1-billion Mozal II project, aimed at doubling its aluminium smelting capacity in Mozambique to 500 000 tons […]

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/ 22 June 2001

Delving into ‘deep time’

Chris Lavers Aeons by Martin Gorst (Fourth Estate) Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth … AND BEYOND by Lawrence M Krauss (Little, Brown) Popular-science books on any particular theme tend to arrive in bunches. Perhaps prompted by the earlier success of Richard Fortey’s Life: An Unauthorised Biography, bookstores are now […]

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/ 22 June 2001

Emerging markets feel the pinch

Shirley Kemp Recent changes to Morgan Stanley Capital International’s (MSCI) Standard All Country World Index (ACWI) have resulted in the formation of a new “provisional” ACWI Index. Fifty percent of the new index will be phased in during November, with the rest to be implemented in May. The implications for emerging markets are negative on […]

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/ 22 June 2001

Even automatons get the blues

He is at his lowest ebb for a decade and his French Open campaign was a disaster. Jim White talks to the once invincible American embarking on his last realistic attempt at a Wimbledon title Sitting up in the stands surrounding the main court at Queen’s Club in west London, Pete Sampras is watching a […]

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/ 22 June 2001

Fancy a shag?

John Aizlewood CD OFTHEWEEK As Freaky Girl settles into its jogging groove, Orville “Shaggy” Burrell growls over The Kraft’s Stakhanovite vocal legwork and lets slip a chuckle. In an instant, its good-natured lasciviousness encapsulates the unlikely but undisputed king of reggae. Shaggy’s shtick on Hot Shot (MCA) is straightforward but appealing. His love songs girl […]

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/ 22 June 2001

Hands of Stone fights for pride

Deon Potgieter boxing As the only boxing world champion in South Africa holding one of the “big three” sanctioning bodies’ world titles, Lehlohonolo “Hands of Stone” Ledwaba carries a lot of responsibility on his shoulders this weekend. He makes the sixth defence of his International Boxing Federation junior-featherweight title as the main supporting bout to […]

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/ 22 June 2001

House prices set to rise

Mboniso Sigonyela The Reserve Bank’s interest-rate surprise will provide a further fillip to buoyant house prices especially in Gauteng. This is good news for owners as houses are in most cases an individual’s biggest asset. But property economist Erwin Rode warns buyers to be careful of an interest-rate trap. “Most people will rush into the […]