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/ 13 January 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 8.20pm THE Pretoria High Court on Thursday granted a second search and seizure warrant against controversial millionaire Billy Rautenbach. The warrant will allow the Directorate for Serious Economic Offences investigators use documents it seized from Rautenbach’s Johannesburg mansion in November. South African officials reportedly seized three truckloads of documents that […]
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/ 13 January 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 9.00am. FAST bowler Allan Donald is expected to make an announcement on his international fututre following the fifth Test against England which begins in Centurion on Friday. The 33-year-old, South Africa’s leading wicket-taker in Test history, is torn between the calls of county and country. Donald has been offered […]
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/ 13 January 2000
THE National Taxi Drivers Organisation (Natdo) said on Tuesday that government’s plans to replace minibuses with larger vehicles will cost 41000 taxi drivers their jobs. Natdo president Themba Mgabhi swarned of a go-slow tactic, whereby drivers will not exceed 60km/h on the freeway. His organisation suspended a similar tactic last December when government announced a […]
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/ 13 January 2000
THE death toll on South African roads since the beginnign of the holiday season has reached 914. Of the 643 crashes which occured, 411 passengers, 260 pedestrians and 335 drivers were killed. KwaZulu-Natal recorded 142 deaths, followed by the Eastern Cape with 126 and the Free State, 125. The toll for other provinces are: Gauteng […]
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/ 13 January 2000
MARK GLEESON, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00pm. STRIKER Benedict McCarthy has agreed to come out of international retirement and play for South Africa in the African Nations Cup finals. But his surprise announcement has left South African officials with a bureaucratic headache as they seek to find a place for him in the 22-man squad. McCarthy’s […]
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/ 12 January 2000
Director Wim Wenders tells Jon Henley how he came to make the film Buena Vista Social Club.
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/ 12 January 2000
It started on a cruise ship and ended up as a terrific movie. Ry Cooder tells Duncan Campbell how he brought a group of elderly, unworldly musicians to the attention of the world
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/ 12 January 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Niamey | Wednesday 12.50pm. THE Dakar rally, suspended on Tuesday after terrorist threats, will restart on Tuesday, January 18, race organisers said. All the teams and equipment will be transferred by air from Niamey to Sabbah and Waw el Kebir airports in Libya from January 12 to 17 and racing will resume Tuesday. […]
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/ 12 January 2000
THE Natal Rugby Union plans to host a tribute match for former South African international and skipper Gary Teichmann in Durban on June 3. Teichmann, however, will turn out in the match in the kit of his new Welsh club Newport as they clash with Natal. “This is an opportunity to honour his service and […]
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/ 12 January 2000
SOUTH frica’s economic freedom rating has improved from 5,9 in 1990 to 7,3 in 1997 on a scale of 10 according to the Economic Freedom of the World annual report. The Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa director Eustace Davie said on Monday South Africa was ranked 47th out of 123 countries analysed in the […]