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/ 1 May 1998

Prinsloo’s turksvy treats

Stephen Gray : Unspoilt places ‘Prickly pear”, I suppose I knew, was the homely way to refer to that flat, jointed, paddle-leaved plant which holds its barrel- shaped fruit aloft like sore thumbs. If pushed, I could have volunteered its botanical label: Opuntia – a suitably blunt name for the gawky, invasive alien that should […]

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/ 1 May 1998

Guided by sounds

Shaun de Waal : CD of the week The Rough Guide books have been helping people (usually young, hip people)find their way around the world for years. Recently a set of superb music guides was added to the list -World Music, Jazz, Rock – and now, in a logical extension of the concept, here comes […]

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/ 1 May 1998

Why cash is still king

Ian Wylie and Liz Stuart Plastic may be the gold standard for a new millennium, but people are proving reluctant to give up notes and coins. Cash is still king and electronic purse pretenders are finding it tougher than expected to win allegiance. When coins tear holes in pockets, notes disintegrate and both make the […]

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/ 1 May 1998

Leopards taunted with burning cigarettes

A South African cvompany has been implicated in illegal leopard trade, write John Grobler and Fiona Macleod Delegates from an international conservation agency meeting in Namibia for the past two weeks were shocked when, walking out of a popular bar in Windhoek last Thursday (April 23), they encountered a group of drunken men taunting three […]

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/ 1 May 1998

Fragile Angola undermined by SA arms

Nelson Mandela is promoting peace and development in Luanda … but neither are foregone conclusions Chris Gordon President Nelson Mandela’s visit to Angola this week takes place against a background of rumours of war and the poor health of President Jos Eduardo dos Santos. Mandela is scheduled to meet Dos Santos to discuss the two […]

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/ 1 May 1998

New service puts Telkom on par with

competitors Charlene Smith Telkom is beginning to fight, and beat, their cellphone competition on their own ground. The latest Telkom innovation is its Call Answer service. First piloted over four months early last year to residential customers in Rosebank in Johannesburg and Middelburg in Mpumalanga, it is now beginning to pick up momentum with availability […]

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/ 1 May 1998

Those Nordic days

Tracy Murinik : On show in Cape Town A coffee pot with six spouts stands on a now coffee-stained table surrounded by six coffee cups into which it spurts the same, now-acrid coffee that it has been recycling for the past few weeks. Mns Wrange’s Monument: Democratic Coffee Table with Fair Coffee Pot and Equal […]

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/ 1 May 1998

Broedertwis for the heart of Johnnic

The stakes are high as businesses do battle for Johnnic, a showpiece empowerment company, writes Jenny Cargill It is almost like old times watching the current wrangling within the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) over New Africa Investments Limited’s (Nail) bid to merge with Johnnic. The 18-month run-up to the NEC’s purchase of the controlling interest […]

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/ 1 May 1998

Affirmation of academic colonialism

Suren Pillay : A SECOND LOOK Academic seminars have a reputation, not completely unfounded, for being staid, boring affairs in which crusty old professors, and younger wannabees, share and debate jargon with mild civility and polite banter. But recently I attended one that had the tension of a dramatic performance, and the raunchiness of a […]

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/ 1 May 1998

‘Mama wanted bombs’

This is the full transcript of the charge sheet against Robert McBride 7th court – criminal This is a copy of the charge sheet, pages 145 to 148, in the case of court ref no 66/98/7th, deducted by the public prosecutor against the accused: Robert John McBride, Vuzi Mbata and Alexandre Francisco Uamba Recorded number […]