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/ 28 November 1997
Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer The first final of the richest domestic club competition in African soccer demands worthy participants, and Kaizer Chiefs and Sundowns certainly fit the bill for the Rothmans Cup climax at FNB Stadium on Saturday. Sundowns lead the national championship by one point from Bush Bucks as the halfway mark approaches and […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Bridget Hilton-Barber Jollers of yore! Unfasten your seat belts and drag your bodies into the upright position. This, as they say, will be an evening to remember. If you’re old enought to remember Jamesons and rich enough to pay for a babysitter, head for Melville’s Bassline from 8pm on Sunday November 30 for The Aeroplanes, […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Owen Bowcott Detectives in Sydney this week ruled out auto-erotic sex games as the cause of rock star Michael Hutchence’s death, but said they were awaiting toxicology tests to determine whether he had taken drugs or alcohol. As the INXS lead singer’s distraught British fiance, Paula Yates, flew to Australia with their 16-month-old daughter, the […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Dan Glaister Innovation You are a concert pianist. You sit at your piano, carefully building up the tension in the hall as you deliver your definitive version of one of the core pieces of the classical repertoire. You approach the climax, playing pianissimo as you prepare for the shock of the fortissimo ending. Suddenly there […]
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/ 28 November 1997
FRIDAY, 8.45AM: SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett is aware that South Africa are facing the strongest challenge in their European tour when they meet England at Twickenham on Saturday. He said their 52-10 win over France last weekend means nothing now. “When one side plays so well you have to take the opposition into account. The […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Richard Williams : Motor Racing Formula One is a world of clever people, and Bernie Ecclestone is the cleverest of them all. His unprepossessing title is vice-president in charge of promotional affairs for the Fdration Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the sport’s worldwide governing body. What he actually does is run Grand Prix racing. He is […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Original Evergreen have meshed their hip- hop sounds with a bit of jungle and a bit of jazz for their new album, writes Greg Bowes The dopest hip-hop crew in the country are back – and this time they’ve recruited a few friends from further afield, culturally and musically, for an ambitious take on electro-African […]
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/ 28 November 1997
office Chris McGreal in Kinshasa Beyond the grave, and from his own bedroom, Mobutu Sese Seko is being pursued. Investigators, tracking down billions of rands of cash and property that were plundered by the late Zairean ruler and his cronies, have installed themselves in one of their early finds – a house Mobutu gave to […]
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/ 28 November 1997
FRIDAY, 3.30PM A POLICEMAN has been arrested for selling stolen goods believed to belong to murdered Newcastle farmers Nicholas and Magda Marais. The policeman appears to have arrested a suspect in connection with the murders, then freed him and tried to sell the stolen goods. Meanwhile in Pretoria, Freedom Front leader Constandt Viljoen organised a […]
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/ 28 November 1997
contempt Tim Jackson Gradually, the view took shape at Intel in the mid-1980s that the guys at Microsoft simply didn’t care that their programmes ran very slowly on Intel processors. Intel set up a team of three or four people inside the group developing its 386 microprocessor, and gave them the job of making sure […]