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/ 9 September 1999
THE South African Law Commission has proposed the repeal of the common law offence of rape and its replacement with a new, gender-neutral statutory offence. This means both men and women can be rape victims and perpetrators, according to the commission’s discussion paper and draft bill on sexual offences which was handed to Justice Minister […]
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/ 9 September 1999
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.30pm. THE Heath Special Investigative Unit has defended the manner in which it has served notices on four former Independent Broadcasting Authority councillors, who allegedly owe the regulatory body more than R236000. Sibeletso Mokone-Matabane has been asked to repay R54903, Peter de Klerk R46418, Linda Shope-Mafole R123357 and William Lane […]
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/ 8 September 1999
Someone said she knew some people who looked like normal human beings throughout the year, but turned into “fashion plates and wild party animals” during the Arts Alive festival. This was definitely the case at the eighth free Jazz on the Lake on Sunday. To many it offered the chance to let down their hair […]
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/ 8 September 1999
PENNY Heyns continued with her record breaking run on Sunday when she smashed Australian Samantha Riley’s four-year-old record at Ellis Park during the final day of the Telkom SA Short Course Championship. Heyns beat Riley’s record by 0,13 seconds.
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/ 8 September 1999
VANDERBIJL Square in Johannesburg was on Monday renamed to Gandhi Square after anti-apartheid pacifist Mahatma Gandhi. Gauteng MEC for Development Planning and Local Government Trevor Fowler said that the new name was part of an initiative to rejuvenate central Johannesburg.
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/ 8 September 1999
NIGERIAN striker Ade Akinbiyi completed his 3,5 million transfer from Bristol City to English first division side Wolverhampton Wanderers. Akinbiyi replaces Robbie Keane at Wolves following his transfer to Premiership side Coventry. Akinbiyi was a prolific striker for City, scoring 19 league goals last season despite the club being relegated from division one.
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/ 8 September 1999
AMBULANCE drivers at a rural Northern Province hospital are refusing to work after hours and at weekends because they have not been paid overtime for the past two months. Provincial health department spokesman, Tsepo Moshima, said on Wednesday that electricians, plumbers and boilermakers at CN Phatudi Hospital near Tzaneen had also refused to work overtime […]
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/ 8 September 1999
EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal has announced that a new school calendar affecting all nine provinces, will come into effect next year. The move is an attempt to reduce deaths on the country’s roads during peak holiday seasons. The provinces have been divided into three groups to reduce traffic densities and improve national traffic flow during […]
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/ 8 September 1999
FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker has been reinstated by Amazulu on Tuesday after a three-day suspension. Barker was suspended after allegedly making disparaging remarks about the AmaZulu players. He also failed to turn up for a training session last week. Barker faced a disciplinary hearing in Durban on Tuesday for bringing the club in […]