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/ 17 November 1995
Jan Taljaard IF attendance figures at the Pretoria City Hall are an indication, then the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging is making a comeback in Gauteng. On Monday night AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche claimed the biggest crowd to attend a political meeting at the hall during the past two years. After being devastated by events before the 1994 […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Fascist groups are using the information superhighway to spread the word of Aryan supremacy, reports Bruce Cohen NEO-NAZIS and racists are spinning a busy web of hate on the Internet. Previously limited to private bulletin boards, a number of these sites have emerged on the World Wide Web, offering a chilling and fascinating insight into […]
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/ 17 November 1995
TELEVISION: Hazel Friedman THERE’S an old Greek saying which, roughly translated, goes: “If the cake rises, who do you thank? The recipe or the cook?” Director Gray Hofmeyr used to have the answer to that one. After all, he was the chef who propelled Greek cooking into The Big Time with his acclaimed television series. […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Worldwide African Investment Holdings has withdrawn its Free-to-Air shareholding to pursue satellite interests, writes Niel Bierbaum WISEMAN NKUHLU’S Worldwide African Investment Holdings has given notice that it intends to withdraw as a shareholder from Quentin Green’s Free-to-Air consortium. According to spokesman Joe Makobe, WWAIH intends to pursue direct-to-home satellite opportunities “rather than waiting for terrestrial […]
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/ 17 November 1995
ATHLETICS:Julian Drew WHEN the iron curtain was swept aside in Bulgaria in November 1989 with the toppling of Todor Zhivkov’s discredited regime, the athletics career of Rumen Koprivchin crumbled too. Back then when his life and all around him seemed in turmoil he would have given short shrift to anyone who told him that in […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Rowan Callaghan THE Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), which has helped over half-a-million people and paid out over R1-billion so far this year, is to begin improving its service immediately. The steps are the first in a range of changes it will introduce to improve its public image. The Department of Labour reports that so far […]
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/ 17 November 1995
THERE are not many people who can question President Nelson Mandela’s moral authority. There are not many who have the credibility and authority to stand up to him. Indeed, there are not many who would have the courage to try. This week’s crisis over Nigeria threw the spotlight on one of the very few people […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Whether I live or die is immaterial. It is enough to know that there are people who commit time and energy to fight this one evil among so many others predominating worldwide. If they do not succeed today, they will succeed tomorrow. We must keep on striving to make the world a better place for […]
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/ 17 November 1995
Karen Harverson THE platinum market, although sensitive to sudden increases in supply, is unlikely to be hit too hard when the United States sells off its strategic stockpile of platinum as announced in September 1994. “The US has not yet decided how much of its 453 000oz of platinum will be sold off or when […]
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/ 17 November 1995
A court case this week saw Winnie Mandela lose R100 000 following her failure to pay an air charter bill — and revealed some bizarre facts about her Co-ordinated Anti-Poverty Programmes, reports Justin Pearce A PRINCE telling a court of law he took his orders unquestioningly from “Mummy”. A church minister and self-appointed business consultant […]