Staff Reporter
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/ 9 July 1999

An Os feels no Pain

The Springboks have never won at the House of Pain in Dunedin, but the return of Os du Randt to the scrum might just be the boost the team needs. Andy Capostagno reports Three weeks ago South Africa had never scored 100 points in a single Test match. Two weeks ago Wales had never beaten […]

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/ 9 July 1999

Many a slip between rule and ruling

Barry Streek Government departments do not always get their administration right – and even the institute set up to teach them how to do it has slipped up. This was revealed when Auditor General Henri Kluever tabled his annual report for the 1997/98 financial year in Parliament. The South African Management Development Institute was established […]

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/ 9 July 1999

The challenge of putting a new face on

Newtown Some big projects, with big names, are being aired in yet another attempt to resuscitate the Newtown Cultural Precinct in Johannesburg, which first saw the light of day nearly a decade ago, writes Ricky Burnett Sometime in the early years of this decade Christopher Till, then director of culture for Johannesburg, described a future […]

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/ 9 July 1999

Durban sharks feed off Aids

Aaron Nicodemus Aids and KwaZulu-Natal hotels apparently don’t mix very well. Last week, participants in a workshop on Aids were nearly evicted from the Hluhluwe Zulu Nyala Protea Hotel in the north-east of the province when it was revealed that some were HIV-positive. According to Aids activist Oziel Mdletshe, who attended the workshop, the hotel […]

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/ 9 July 1999

State and De Beers battle over stockpile

The location of De Beers’s South African diamonds is now a major stumbling block in talks between the state and the giant to resolve the deadlock over gem exports. Mungo Soggot reports The battle between De Beers and the government has intensified amid accusations by state diamond officials that De Beers has backed out of […]

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/ 9 July 1999

A time for Pirates to deliver or die

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer No Premier Soccer League coach is under more pressure to deliver or die than Victor Bondarenko, the former Soviet Union international who occupies the extremely hot seat at Orlando Pirates. Buccaneers boss Irvin Khoza, who kept Bonders in suspense for several weeks before giving him the green light to continue, expects at […]

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/ 9 July 1999

Maduna not bothered to retract false

claims Barry Streek Former Minerals and Energy Minister Penuell Maduna this week admitted that he could not be “bothered” to retract his groundless accusation in Parliament in June 1997 that Auditor General Henri Kluever conspired in a cover-up of the theft of R170-million worth of oil. Though he was aware within days that the claim […]

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/ 9 July 1999

You don’t have to be Jewish

John Matshikiza With The Lid Off Maybe it’s the drugs, but I still get occasional waves of confusion, mixed with dj vu, in my day-to-day experience of South Africa. Just to remind you, I am one of those many hundreds of thousands who returned to this turf after long years of what we used to […]

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/ 9 July 1999

Discovering the universe in a small town

Alex Dodd Halfway up the main staircase of the Albany Museum, stuck to a bright red wall are the following words: “The universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of the understanding which has been man’s practice up to now, but the understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the […]