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/ 4 May 2001

Our first ‘white African’ poet

Stephen Gray pays tribute to poet Guy Butler, who died last week aged 83 The death of Guy Butler on 26 April in Grahamstown was not unexpected. He had been monitoring a leaky heart valve since the early 1980s, when he bowed out as professor of English at Rhodes University. Yet he enjoyed a productive […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Let’s get carried away

Andy Capostagno rugby There are a number of truisms that are regularly trotted out when the Super 12 is in progress. There is no such thing as an easy game, beware the team that can win away from home, it’s about peaking in May and not in March, don’t get carried away with home wins. […]

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/ 23 March 2001

South Africa’s devilish shadow

Bryan Rostron The devil continues to have a fine run in South Africa. Hansie Cronje, by his own admission, accepted Satan’s silver. When that cheesy old horror film The Exorcist was recently rereleased, earnest churchmen begged us not to watch in case we were lured by the celluloid wiles of Beelzebub. Two weeks ago in […]

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/ 23 March 2001

South Africa outperforms global markets

Belinda Anderson Investec research has shown that the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) all share index has outperformed most major global indices when measured over two years in US dollar terms. The JSE has grown by 10,5% over the past 24 months this considering the 22% depreciation in the rand during that time. Its closest competitor […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Saying boo to taboo

Alex Sudheim fine art Trevor Makhoba is no stranger to controversy. He has an uncanny knack for disinterring some of the more uncomfortable impulses squirming beneath South African society’s skin. This is all over his show Rebound, currently at Durban’s NSA Gallery. Like a surgeon cutting into flesh to remove a subcutaneous cyst or a […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Rail network to be overhauled

Accidents and arson have highlighted the urgency of updating South Africa’s railways Jaspreet Kindra and Glenda Daniels At least six metropolitan councils in South Africa will be given responsibility for developing and planning Metrorail routes in the near future. Provinces will also have these powers. Transport authorities representing provinces and municipalities will plan and develop […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Shuttleworth joins top fund manager

Belinda Anderson In his spare time, charismatic fund manager Peter Major dons his hang-glider and jumps off mountains in Cape Town. Now he’s taking another leap away from the world of big institutional fund management, to team up with South Africa entrepreneur-turned information technology billionaire Mark Shuttleworth. Major joins Shuttleworth’s newly formed company HBD (Here […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Santa head office faces closure

An audit report has found that the office wastes much-needed money and resources, and has little contact with its own hospitals and clinics Paul Kirk Following a series of exposes by the Mail & Guardian, auditors have recommended that the national office of the South African National Tuberculosis Association (Santa) be closed down. The audit […]