The ANC is in danger of losing sight of the real ‘struggle’ – creating a more equal social order, writes Heribert Adam THE African National Congress Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Phumzile Mlambo-Nguka, recently said black businessmen should not be shy to say they wanted to become ”filthy rich”. Such an attitude rings of […]
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/ 28 February 1997
an early start Mail & Guardian Reporters MANY people were surprised when Carel du Plessis was appointed the new Springbok coach this week. With little previous coaching experience and the British Lions tour looming, Du Plessis has been thrown in at the deep end after the sudden departure of the disgraced Andre Markgraaf. The new […]
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/ 28 February 1997
Suzy Bell A young black child strokes the lilac long nails of “Aurora the Raver”, marvelling at the sight of a flamboyant marionette on exhibition. With purple spiral curls, rainbow coloured eyelashes, bellybutton and nose resplendent with shiny silver rings, it’s no wonder Winnie Mandela (marionette) couldn’t quite compete. In this joint exhibition of KwaZulu-Natal […]
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/ 28 February 1997
The M&G’s guest writer this week, Boetie Damane, revisited the `Jozi’ of hope, sorrow and fear he knew as a child BACK in 1966, when I was 12, I was a street child in Hillbrow. We slept by the waterfall on the corner of Catherine Street and Saratoga Avenue. Also in scrapyards. Trees provided a […]
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/ 28 February 1997
Emma Lindsey savours the sweaty spectacle of an ancient game of strength and skill that is no pastime for bored old fatties IF YOU thought tug-of-war was a pub pastime for a bunch of bored fatties, you’d be wrong. The 10 nations gathered for the fourth world closed indoor championship at the Torbay Leisure Centre […]
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/ 28 February 1997
John Arlidge in Edinburgh THE pioneering British scientist who created the first clone of an adult animal – a lamb named Dolly, created from a sheep – admitted this week that the technique could be applied to humans. Dr Ian Wilmut said a human embryo, produced using the same methods, could be used to treat […]
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/ 28 February 1997
A strange affliction in the hills of KwaZulu-Natal still evades medical science, writes Simon Pooley DRIVE up into the remote Mseleni area in the Ubombo district of northern KwaZulu- Natal and you could be forgiven for thinking you had returned to an African Eden. The rural people live in small kraals, linked to the small […]
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/ 28 February 1997
Amid uproar at South Africa’s universities, evidence of state manipulation emerges Ann Eveleth MINUTES of a secret meeting allegedly between Education Minister Sibusiso Bengu, University of Durban-Westville (UDW)council members and high-flying Durban attorney Linda Zama suggest a clear political agenda lies behind an ongoing probe into campus conflict. Attorneys acting for UDW’s Combined Staff Association […]
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/ 28 February 1997
Mungo Soggot THE adoption of kidnap victim Timothy Funnell could have breached a key clause of the Child Care Act, laying the grounds for a police investigation. The child’s adoptive parents – Barry and Julia Funnell – who live in Malawi as Baptist missionaries. They registered a Pretoria address when they adopted Timothy in Pretoria […]
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/ 28 February 1997
Jacquie Golding-Duffy SEVERAL members of the government’s communications task group, Comtask, have accused the Cabinet of endorsing a “stage- managed operation” to ensure the survival of the old-guard South African Communications Service (Sacs). Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, who established Comtask last year to investigate the government’s relationship with the media, last week rejected its recommendation […]