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/ 9 December 1994
THEATRE: Stanley Peskin Presented on Broadway in 1992 and now by Pact Opera as its Christmas attraction, Crazy for You is modelled on Girl Crazy (1930). The original musical comedy followed the bright, witty pattern of the old Princess Theatre attractions — only, according to Guy Bolton, the librettist of Girl Crazy, on a larger […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley CONSUMERS may have noticed a campaign directed at making them “more secure” at automatic teller machines (ATMs). The campaign is cunningly framed to make consumers believe that all the ATM fraud, theft and related crime in general is the consumers’ own fault. Now that the banks are kindly giving its consumers […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Shadley Nash: Port Elizabeth THE Cradock community, still reeling from shock at recent revelations that three Port Elizabeth civic leaders were brutally murdered by the security forces, believe the bodies may be buried at the site of their torture and murder. A privately-owned holiday farm now stands where the Pebco Three were allegedly tortured and […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Farouk Chothia THE ANC signalled its intention to prise support from the Inkatha Freedom Party in kwaZulu/Natal with the election last weekend of two traditional leaders to senior positions in the organisation’s new provincial executive committee (PEC). Chief Zibuse Mlaba was elected deputy chairman at a provincial conference last weekend, while Chief Elpheus Molefe was […]
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/ 9 December 1994
The relaunch of the Afrikaner Volksfront appears to be little more than a damp squib, reports Jan Taljaard THE once-influential Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF) — relaunched last weekend after its demise in the wake of the April election — has been dismissed as “the Conservative Party in disguise”. At a press conference held to launch the […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Skhumbuzo Miya THE Inkatha Freedom Party recently celebrated its kwaZulu/Natal election victory at Mphusheni on the South Coast by feasting on stolen ANC cattle. IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi was the keynote speaker at the rally, local residents said. They said several ANC-supporting families from nearby Adam’s Mission had had their cattle stolen before the celebration […]
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/ 9 December 1994
The high prophets of commercialisation lost the struggle for the soul of the SABC this week, reports Mark Gevisser TWO men were notably absent from the panel of five SABC big shots going face-to-face with the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) yesterday as the corporation unveiled its plans for transformation: Quentin Green and Steve Schubach. Green, […]
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/ 9 December 1994
ORGANISATIONS working with the homeless in Cape Town are boycotting a police-sponsored homelessness awareness day because they say policemen are abusing street dwellers. They accuse the SAPS of failing to take adequate action against police officers who mistreat vagrants. The police are investigating allegations that one officer poured thinners over a teenage boy and set […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Cry, the Beloved Country is South Africa’s first major post-election film project. William Pretorius spent a day on set THERE’S a lot riding on director Darrell Roodt’s film of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, produced by Anant Singh. It’s the first major post-election film production. A new beginning? Yes, thinks Roodt, when you can […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Tension between the ANC-in-government and the ANC-outside- government must be resolved at next weekend’s national conference, reports Gaye Davis REGIONAL congresses of the ANC have sent the movement’s leadership a strong signal in the run-up to its national conference this month: members elected to government should not be charged with running the organisation. Few ANC […]