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/ 26 October 2001
Needy pensioners in the Western Cape are being provided with full sets of teeth for free Rob Davies Most of us take having a full set of teeth for granted. We pay no thought to crunching up a packet of crisps, navigating our way through a mealie or pulverising a pizza. Yet there are many […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Jake la Motta is still raging at 80 Steve Bunce It is an image the cinema gave boxing, a sentiment all fighters understand and the dialogue was worth an Oscar. It is Jake la Motta looking in a mirror and telling himself he could have been somebody and it happened most nights for 20 years […]
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/ 26 October 2001
CRICKET Peter Robinson So this is how the weekend went: on Friday news broke that Mfuneko Ngam had suffered yet another stress fracture, this time of his right tibia; on Saturday Allan Donald pulled up with a stomach-muscle strain; on Monday Nantie Hayward announced his return to international cricket with a fair bit of pace […]
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/ 26 October 2001
There were more surprises in store for competitors in the recent Brait Grace to Grace 42km mountain bike challenge in the Magaliesberg than just the treacherous inclines and rocky and sandy terrain, writes Ntuthuko Maphumulo. They also had to contend with a redoubtable mother-and-son team who pedalled off with the top prizes. Jean Paul Pearton […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Mbeki’s address, at the inaugural ZK Matthews memorial lecture on October 12, makes no direct reference to the disease.
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/ 26 October 2001
The violence at Zandspruit is a reflection of more than the country’s racial xenophobic tendencies with South Africans objecting to black, but not white, immigrants Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The violence that erupted at the Zandspruit informal settlement near Honeydew this week not only unearthed the xenophobic tendencies that continue to haunt South Africa but […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Bongani Majola Three senior white officers have been suspended by Metrorail in Krugersdorp, pending investigations into allegations of racism and abuse. The latest incidents include a white senior protection officer who allegedly spat water on the face of a black female security officer, Siziwe Njwambe, telling her “it’s summertime”. The black officer reported the matter […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Rob Davies For the majority of South Africa’s rural communities change is a slow process sometimes so slow that catching up becomes almost impossible. Old Mutual’s rural economic development initiative (REDI) aims to address this problem through the development of rural communities in partnership with the communities themselves and the Small Business Project a Section […]
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/ 26 October 2001
* There are 14 training centres offering the programme, run by the national and provincial education departments. Centres are in the Eastern Cape (Bisho), Free State (Sasolburg), Gauteng (Soshanguve, Soweto, Alexandra, Atteridgeville), KwaZulu-Natal (Nqutu, Bergvile), Mpumalanga (Lekazi), North West (Mmabatho, Rustenburg), Northern Cape (Kimberley) and Northern Province (Giyani, Hoxani). ENDS
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/ 26 October 2001
Mail & Guardian reporter Sugar is not dubbed KwaZulu-Natal’s white gold for nothing it employs thousands of that province’s people, but also ploughs back in kind to deserving groups and communities. The sugar industry employs about 85000 people and an additional 400000 largely small-scale farmers and cane growers depend on the industry for an income. […]