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/ 14 September 2001
Its that time of year in Durban when the city’s cineastes make the collective expression of the poor kid staring into the display window of a pastry shop, writes Alex Sudheim.
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/ 14 September 2001
A Knight’s Tale</i> is a load of preposterous bollocks. It is also highly enjoyable, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 14 September 2001
This year’s winter has been the most robust Cape Town has experienced in more than half a century, and the art scene has been almost as bleak as the sky over Philippi, writes Nic Dawes.
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/ 14 September 2001
A South African athletics season that started badly improved in the last couple of weeks Martin Gillingham Anything’s possible at Athletics South Africa these days so it won’t come as any surprise if the powers-that-be in Houghton call a special meeting and declare that, from now on, the track and field calendar will start on […]
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/ 14 September 2001
Barry Streek Financial disarray in the government’s secret services and secret funds, reminiscent of the apartheid era, has been uncovered by Auditor-General Shauket Fakie in two reports tabled in Parliament this week. The reports show the transfer of R51-million of secret funds to the police without the approval of Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel, overspending […]
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/ 14 September 2001
Richard Norton-Taylor and Jon Henley in Paris The CIA, the FBI and the United States’s national security agency spend billions of dollars a year gathering intelligence abroad and combating terrorism at home significantly more than any other country. Their satellites can spot vehicle number plates and eavesdrop on millions of e-mails and telephone calls, yet […]
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/ 14 September 2001
Twelve useful-looking three-year-old males go to the post for the R125000 Falcon Sprint, a handicap over 1200m at Turffontein on Saturday, and a number of them have chances of taking home the winner’s stake. The David Ferraris-trained Appeal Process, a son of Australian sire Volksraad, has been allocated joint top weight by the handicapper and […]
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/ 14 September 2001
Mail & Guardian reporter Combined Fishing Enterprises, one of a few of the genuine black-owned family businesses in the fishing industry, has weathered many a storm in realising its goals. Its vision is to become a formid-able force in the South African fishing industry and to have a world-renowned brand of quality products. The family […]
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/ 14 September 2001
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Two days after the World Conference against Racism ended in Durban, thousands of Eastern Cape residents went on the rampage, looting shops belonging to foreign, Muslim businessmen. Kwanobuhle police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Nkosinathi Isaac, who described the incident as the “worst xenophobic incident ever in the Eastern Cape”, said Somali and […]
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/ 14 September 2001
Neal Collins So it’s all off. The Champions League fixtures have been cancelled. No more talk of Manchester United’s “life-or-death” clash with Olymp-iakos, or the “tragedy” of Arsenal’s defeat at Real Mallorca on Tuesday. No, the sensible course has been taken. Call it all off; give us time to reflect, let life, for those of […]