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/ 16 September 1994

Having a Ball In The Street

STREETBALL: Mapula Sibanda IT was more than passing ball at Bruma Lake when the first of the four Nandos countrywide Streetball Challenge tournaments kicked off last Sunday. It was also a day of fun and festivities for the whole family. Parents acting as coaches for the day shouted and cheered for their young ones, as […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Diversity Is Strength For Jang And Newton

Arts Alive visiting pianist Jon Jang unites West and East in his music. He spoke to Gwen Ansell DUKE ELLINGTON, as usual, got there first with his Far East Suite in the mid-1960s. Since then, enough jazz musicians have looked East to staff a big band, from John Coltrane to John Zorn. United States West […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Powers Of The Pearl

ROCK: Elizabeth Williams WITH the hippie era now the focus of one-generation-on nostalgia, it was to be expected that someone would tackle Janis Joplin. Like contempories Jim Morrison and Cas Elliot, she epitomised the late Sixties — the Summer of Love, flower power and drugs — and their deaths marked the end of the era. […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Land Claims Threaten Church Unity

Pat Sidley THE new unity within the black churches of the Dutch Reformed family is being beset with bitter claims by black congregants for the land their churches have stood on for decades. The issue of land in the church rose after the Dutch Reformed Mission church (coloured) and Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (black) […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Naspers Price Is a Surprise

The listing of publishing group Naspers forespells the growth of a major publishing group, writes Jacques Magliolo KEEN interest shown by banks and major insurance companies in the shares of newspaper and magazine publisher Nasionale Pers Limited during its listing this week came as a complete surprise to numerous industrial analysts. It signalled to the […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Jailed Brodders Defend Their Dreaded Locks

Smoking `ganja’ and growing dreads is our religious right, argue Rastafarians. Tell that to the constitutional court, say the prison authorities. Eddie Koch reports DO dreadlocks have rights? “Yo mon,” says Jupiter Jons of the Rastafari Unity Movement Alliance (Ruma). And two of the country’s leading experts on the new Bill of Rights agree. Jons’ […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Comic Terros Never Die

Michael O’Reilly SOUTH AFRICAN troops may have pulled out of Namibia years ago, but deep in the Angolan bush, Rocco de Wet — Grensvegter — battles on. Clad in the brown South African Defence Force uniform and sporting a butch moustache, the photo-comic hero is still waging his one-man war against the likes of the […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Who’s Fooling Whom

Eric Naki Karl Zimbiri, an Azanian People’s Liberation Army fighter often cited as responsible for terror attacks in news reports, claims he is being defamed. Or, at least, someone claiming to be him claims this is the case. Apparently there’s an imposter out there making the real Zimbiri out to be a bad guy. The […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Peugeot May Steer Towards South Africa

Eric Naki THE French car giant, Peugeot Motor Company, is considering opening an assembly plant in the Eastern Cape. The move — which would add another competitor to the club of South Africa’s already arguably overcrowded vehicle manufacturers — was confirmed by Eastern Cape MEC for Economic Affairs Smuts Ngonyama this last week. Ngonyama, who […]

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/ 16 September 1994

Will The Spinners Get Their Turn

Slow bowlers selected but seamers still rule CRICKET: Jon Swift IT IS not beyond the bounds of reason to suggest to the South African cricket selectors that they should take note of the recent goings-on in the camp of their rugby counterparts. For, with the senior tour of one-dayers looming in Pakistan and the A […]