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/ 2 December 1994

Arms Who could buy what

COUNTRIES listed in the 1989 version of Log 17 are as follows. Group Three (sales prohibited): Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Kampuchea (a note states this depended on “the course of peace negotiations”), Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Syria, South Yemen, Nicaragua, North Korea, Vietnam and Russia. Group […]

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/ 2 December 1994

Running for the Barbarians

RUGBY: Andy Capostagno IT has been well documented that Ireland is a place where the unusual happens on a regular basis. And so when the greatest rugby player of all time walked into the Springbok hotel, ignored the tourists and invited their baggage master to dinner it should really have come as no surprise. When […]

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/ 2 December 1994

House won’t be home for king

The formation of a House of Traditional Leaders in kwaZulu/Natal has created conflict between the ANC and IFP, writes Farouk Chothia BEHIND the ANC’s opposition to a House of Traditional Leaders in kwaZulu/Natal lies realpolitik: it wants to prevent its newly-acquired asset, Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini, from being exposed as a monarch without a crown, […]

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/ 2 December 1994

Gunpowder but no plot

CINEMA: Fabius Burger THERE are amazing explosions in Blown Away. It’s just as well, considering the plot is so silly. A mad bomber (Tommy Lee Jones) kills off members of Boston’s bomb disposal unit, trying to wipe out James Dove (Jeff Bridges) — something to do with trouble back in Belfast. Blown Away is an […]

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/ 2 December 1994

Next stop Sydney

Overall leader Isabelle Autissier is up with the leaders in the first week of the second leg of the BOC Challenge SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones TABLE Bay put on her best with clear skies, sparkling seas and a fresh 15 knot south-westerly and over 300 craft turned out to send the fleet on its way […]

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/ 2 December 1994

Time to face the mbaqanga

Musicians made an impassioned plea for an airplay quota for local music at this week’s IBA hearing. Hazel Friedman was there IF you happened to be walking past Johannesburg’s Mariston Hotel on Tuesday this week, you might have thought you’d stumbled upon a replay of The Concert at Ellis Park. You would have noticed Hugh […]

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/ 2 December 1994

Battle of the blue helmet troops

The cabinet is split over whether South Africa should send troops to Angola, reports Eddie Koch THE bells that toll for peace in Angola have struck a note of discord in Nelson Mandela’s government. The president — faced with stiff resistance from opposition parties to United Nations requests for troops to help hold the ceasefire […]

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/ 2 December 1994

Urbanites with attitude

Urban Creep have been called an ‘African REM’. Can they live up to it? Luke Alfred reports THERE’S nothing to stop Urban Creep becoming the best band in South Africa. They have a high standard of musicianship, stage presence, some great epic songs and an uncommonly well-articulated vision for the future. They also have a […]

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/ 2 December 1994

Sol’s safe for now

Steuart Wright in East London SUN City supremo Sol Kerzner is safe from prosecution for bribery — at least for the next seven months Business Age, an overseas magazine, has suggested that Kerzner could escape prosecution following a secret deal with President Nelson Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, who the magazine said was a […]