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/ 20 April 2000

Hit the right spot

Mark Espiner Calgary Bay. Fine white sand and clear aquamarine water. A biting wind coming in off the Atlantic. A remote and beautiful spot on Scotland’s western isle of Mull. Isolated. I sat in the car parked up on the beach, looked out to America and read the decaying and rusting sign planted boldly above […]

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/ 20 April 2000

Heaven and hell

Dalene Matthee’s new novel deal with the first interracial family at the Cape under the Dutch Jane Rosenthal Dalene Matthee, who is rather smaller than one would expect from the authority and stature of her novels, appeared promptly for a hotel breakfast interview. She applied herself politely and diligently and with increasing eloquence to a […]

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/ 20 April 2000

Hansiegate .. the real transcript

In an international scoop, we have obtained the authentic transcript of the telephone conversation between Hansie Cronje and the London bookmaker that resulted in Cronje receiving $8 200 for match “forecasting”. Shan: Hello, Hansie? Shan here, calling from London. Did Joe tell you I’d be calling? Hansie: Hello Shan, nice to meet you. Yes, Joe […]

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/ 20 April 2000

Gung ho techno geeks win the day

Neil Thomas What a start to the millennium! Investment professionals’ forecasts have basically been wrong, but unit trust investors who stuck to their own views have largely been well rewarded. So scratch up one point for individual investors, nil for the investment industry. Late last year, among much nervousness about Y2K and an accompanying shift […]

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/ 20 April 2000

Goodbye Mr Chips, hello Nino’s

Is Crawford a school for nobs or a great leap forward in progressive education? Nawaal Deane investigates Growing up in government schools – school uniforms, a bleak and boring landscape seen through grimy windows, lunch bought over the fence – doesn’t prepare you for Crawford. Visiting a Crawford College is like landing on another planet. […]

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/ 20 April 2000

From Seattle to Davos and beyond

Ebrahim Harvey LEFT FIELD The dramatic mass demonstrations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference in Seattle and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a few months ago, and that which took place last week at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Washington, has starkly spelled out the kind of […]

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/ 20 April 2000

From looking to booking

Jean Spear ‘Wealthy gentleman living in Beverly Hills is looking for a petite, adventurous, intelligent female travel mate to the exotic islands of Thailand. Must have photos. E-mail now and cruise with me.” Internet travel sites are filled with similar notices from travellers seeking the ideal travel companion to tour the globe with. From the […]

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/ 20 April 2000

Foreigners fall prey to spies’ scam

Justin Arenstein A group of international investors is threatening to sue the National Intelligence Agency (NIA)and the South African Secret Service for $14-million after getting ripped off in a complex scam by spies using apartheid-era front companies. The American investors were already granted a US district court judgment for $10,9-million in 1998, but are struggling […]

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/ 20 April 2000

Familiarity has bred contempt

Andy Capostagno RUGBY It is week nine of the Super 12 and for South African teams it has all become academic. This is the nightmare which the organisers of the competition have long feared, in which one country falls so far behind the other two that the motto of the competition – strength versus strength […]

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/ 20 April 2000

Diversity is strength

Khadija Magardie AFRICAN RENAISSANCE edited by Malegapuru William Makgoba (Mafube/Tafelberg) This collection of conference papers makes a surprisingly refreshing departure from the “Timbuktu glory days” rhetoric of the “African renaissance” idea. To its credit, the book does not confine itself to waxing lyrical about the revival of vague categories like moral values and African culture, […]