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Keeping control of diabetes
THE TIPS of her fingers are just a little callused from their daily prickings, but that is the only sign that forty-two-year-old Christine Scott is diabetic. Otherwise this former nurse and midwife is the picture of health -- even on four hours s...

Stokely Carmichael, father of the 'Black Power' phrase, dies To die in Africa ­ a wish come true
KWAME Toure -- known to most people in the world as Stokely Carmichael -- died as he wished this week on African soil in his adopted home of Guinea. For the past two years, Toure was treated for prostrate cancer in the United States and Cuba, but...

Cultivating turnips and Brussels sprouts
TURNIPS require little labour or effort and are quick to mature. Eight to 10 weeks after sowing, the seed of most cultivars will be ready to reap. By this time, the globes or bulbs should have reached a diameter of about 6cm. The globe can be e...

Bankruptcy and despair stalk British farms
STOCKBRIDGE -- The green and rolling hills around Stockbridge, southern England, look a rural idyll, but the reality is ugly. Farmers here, fight bankruptcy and despair brought on by a collapse in the market. Near the ruins of an Iron Age hill f...

Surge in wool prices surge
PORT ELIZABETH -- Wool prices surged at this week's sale as a result of strong demand from greasy wool exporters and local processors as they build up stocks to keep mills running in the new year when the offering of long fleece wools is expected ...

Lovable Saddam Hussein
WHEN the bells of Baghdad's main clock chime, they are not simply giving the time: they also remind Iraqis of President Saddam Hussein whom the United States wants to push out of power. The clock's tune, which is also played at the top of the hou...

Century of Cabernets culminates in Trillennium
Wine by LIesl Elias DEFINITELY the most exciting project ever to come from the South African wine industry is the Century of Cabernets which was launched at the Johannesburg Planetarium last week. Trillennium -- a Century of Cabernets is a world...