Staff Reporter
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/ 22 September 1995

Row brewing over District Six land claims

Rehana Rossouw DISTRICT SIX could be the first case to be heard by the Land Claims Court, but the issue it will address — hotly disputed by some former residents — is whether to block individual restitution claims in parts of the The area is internationally regarded as a symbol of the Group Areas Act […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Butler’s back

After a year away from the game, Jeff Butler has returned to coach Kaizer Chiefs SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe WITH eight weeks to go before the end of the season, the deadline for the registration of players in NSL teams has come and gone. Kaizer Chiefs were reported to be interested in the services of Ernest […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Mutola means business

Despite being at the end of a hard season, Maria Mutola will be going for a record at the opening of the new athletics stadium in Johannesburg ATHLETICS: Julian Drew WHILE most of the athletes attending the two-day meeting to inaugurate Johannesburg’s new R97-million athletics stadium this weekend are at the tail- end of a […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Last battle of Angola’s 19 year old war

The diamond-rich Lundas are the last battlefield in Angola’s civil war. Philip van Niekerk reports on a deal that is brokered to share the diamonds among the warring parties AFTER sundown the town of Saurimo in northern Angola is alive with gunfire — the rattle of AK47s and pistol shots. A nonchalant United Nations peacekeeper […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Finding the strength to beat the English

CRICKET: Jon Swift IT WAS, as Ali Bacher commented before the announcement of the squad for the short tour of Zimbabwe next month, “an interesting side”. It was made even more intriguing by the rationale offered by convenor of selectors Peter The squad which will travel north between October 10-23 is, Pollock maintains, “an experiment […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Rhino horns for trap go missing

More than 100 rhino horns which were to be used to trap smugglers have gone missing, reports Ann Eveleth MORE than 100 rhino horns purchased by a controversial group of British special forces officers from the Natal Parks Board in the late 1980s, supposedly for a “sting” operation to trap smugglers, have gone missing and […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Stop backpedalling

Foreign investors want growth, not deregulation, argues ANC MP Rob Davies THE announcement of the appointment of a Cabinet “super-committee” to co-ordinate government strategy to promote economic growth has provoked a good deal of media comment. Some have seen the establishment of this committee as an implicit acknowledgment by the Government of National Unity of […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Addressing employee rights in insolvent firms

Karen Harverson. More than 2 000 companies were liquidated in 1994 alone, resulting in thousands of employees not only losing their jobs but also losing out on unpaid salaries, accrued leave and various other benefits. When it comes to protecting the rights of employees of insolvent companies, South Africa’s laws lag far behind international norms. […]

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/ 22 September 1995

Zimbabwe’s gays live in fear of the future

Bart Luirink visited Zimbabwe in the aftermath of Robert Mugabe’s anti-gay outburst and found the country’s gay community in a state of fear IT’S clean-up time in Harare. Irritatingly enthusiastic policemen chase the last hawkers and beggars from the pavements. Harare is preparing itself for the All Africa Games and poverty gets deported to the […]