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The UCB president says Hansie Cronje will replace Kepler Wessels as cricket captain, writes Paul Martin THE United Cricket Board of South Africa this week confirmed the accuracy of a WM&G report in last week’s issue disclosing plans to replace Kepler Wessels as captain with the present vice-captain Hansie Cronje this year. Commenting for the […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Stefaans Brummer DEPUTY defence minister Ronnie Kasrils this week found himself caught in the middle of tensions between the Northern Cape ANC and the army. ANC VIPs were barred from entering the army’s Lohatla battle-training school, at the centre of a land dispute, when Kasrils and Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom went on a fact-finding […]
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/ 2 September 1994
International development support for South Africa is being snagged on a paradoxical problem, writes Simon Segal THE much-hyped flow of foreign aid to South Africa is being held up by a paradoxical problem: the government does not have any clarity about what exactly is being offered, and the donors won’t move until the government proposes […]
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/ 2 September 1994
CRICKET: Luke Alfred IN HIS wildest dreams Craig Smith never imagined that he’d become the physiotherapist for the South African cricket team. During our interview at the Westbury Hotel on the Sunday of the Oval Test, Smith admits as much, although he mentions that he always wanted to “specialise in the sports side of things”. […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Paul Stober THE ANC has launched an urgent inquiry into a power struggle between North-West premier Popo Molefe and regional agriculture minister Rocky Malebane-Metsing which has pitched the province into crisis. ANC secretary general Cyril Rama-phosa this week sent a high-powered team to look into a war of allegations and counter-allegations that has erupted between […]
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/ 2 September 1994
The government is still funding an elite school set up by Lucas Mangope, writes Paul Stober THE government is spending R12-million a year to subsidise one of Lucas Mangope’s pet projects: a palatial school in Mafikeng that cost an estimated R100-million to build and caters to only 500 pupils, mostly foreign students studying a British […]
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/ 2 September 1994
BASKETBALL: Matlhodi Malope BENDING could not reduce seven-foot basketball star Patrick Ewing’s monstrous height enough to be on the same level as his group of young trainees at the Alexandra All Sports Centre this week. He had to squat for proper eye contact. “Now guys,” he said to the group of eager boys and girls […]
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/ 2 September 1994
THE MARKETS Jacques Magliolo CORPORATE raiders are generally a detested lot. They invoke fear in company directors, desperation in owners who lose their organisations to them and drive shareholders into a frenzy of greed as share prices are driven skywards. However, there is one aspect of corporate raiders worth learning: their ability to raise seemingly […]
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/ 2 September 1994
The country’s captain-in-waiting tells why and how he believes South Africa’s cricketing future must be strengthened CRICKET: Paul Martin HANSIE CRONJE, whom the selectors plan to appoint national cricket captain next month, has pinpointed a lack of all-year-round fitness as a significant factor in South Africa’s failure to win the Test series or either of […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Jan Taljaard EUGENE TERRE’BLANCHE and the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging this weekend celebrate 21 years as the undisputed wild bunch of the right. To celebrate, they are returning to Heidelberg, the small town where the organisation was founded. AWB legend has it that the organisation was formed when seven men, among them Jan Groenewald (who would later […]