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/ 23 September 1994
Justin Pearce WHEN Sister Clara Williams asked two unauthorised visitors to leave the hospital ward, they pressed a knife against her stomach. Dr Hennie Steenkamp has been assaulted four times while treating injured patients. And hospital volunteer Simon Jacobs was stabbed with a pair of scissors when he tried to stop a fight between two […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Chucho Valdez speaks to Gwen Ansell about the music of musicians `I’M the child of two piano players. Piano was just the natural choice.” Chucho Valdez shrugs expressively but can say no more. He’s a big man, eloquent about most aspects of his music. But even considering another instrument — no, it’s unthinkable. Valdez grew […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Mapula Sibanda ALIENS must go, irrespective of their race. Such was the sentiment expressed by about 100 people gathered under the trees of Yeoville Park last Sunday. They came from Yeoville, Berea, Hillbrow and Joubert Park to the meeting, advertised as “Concerned residents against illegal immigrants” and organised by some local members of the South […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Basil Douglas has popped up in some unusual places, and now he has popped up to lead the `popcorn civics’, writes Gaye Davis BASIL DOUGLAS, the man behind the rates protests which convulsed Johannesburg’s coloured townships last week, leaving one person dead and 28 injured after clashes with police, has had a chequered political career. […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Armscor and the Ministry of Defence are at loggerheads over a consignment of weapons allegedly destined for civil war-torn Yemen. Eddie Koch and Paul Stober investigate ARMSCOR and Defence Minister Joe Modise are caught in a growing storm over allegations that South Africa sent a large consignment of AK-47 assault rifles to Yemen in contravention […]
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/ 23 September 1994
FINE ART: Ivor Powell In the 1960s Norman Catherine was something like the heir apparent or maybe it was Brand-and- Revered-Raspberry to the throne of Fook Island. Fook Island, for those who don’t remember that whimsical nonesuch nonsense, was a diligently documented and solemnly certified place of the mind, invented and ruled with a rod […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Weekly Mail Reporter THE abortion debate looks set to start all over again with the appointment this month of a parliamentary committee that is likely to have the pro-choice and anti-abortion lobbies fighting it out. The 26-member committee, which will hear submissions from the public before recommending legislation to the cabinet, represents a wide spectrum […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Two South Africans set off this week in the gruelling eight-month, 27 000-mile BOC Challenge SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones AFTER months — and in some cases, years — of preparation, the fourth BOC Challenge single-handed around the world race got under way in Charleston, USA, last weekend with a rousing sendoff from some 2 000 […]
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/ 23 September 1994
In his first interview since the royal shake-up, Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu talks to Ann Eveleth THERE was an emotive ritual outside King Goodwill Zwelithini’s palace gates last Tuesday to mark his rapprochement with Senior Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu. “In accordance with tradition, we each stood outside the palace gates and a man poured fire ash into […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Well-known figures have been blamed for the waste of millions of rands by the National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles, says a confidential report. Wiseman Khuzwayo reports A CONFIDENTIAL report on the disbanded National Co- ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR) charges that the organisation was dogged by fraud and corruption […]