Staff Reporter
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/ 25 August 1995

Black GPs support Deeble plan

White doctors spoke out vociferously against the ‘Deeble plan’ for national health insurance. Black doctors, however, are upset that this plan is being diluted, reports Pat Sidley JOHN Deeble’s virtues, or lack of them, are in the eye of the beholder. To many general practitioners in this country, the Australian health care expert’s original ideas […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Moses finds the promised land

Duncan Mackay explains how the dash for cash is manipulated by the world’s top athletes A FUNNY thing happened to Moses Kiptanui on his way to winning a third 3 000m steeplechase title in Gothenburg recently. He suddenly slowed down when he realised he might break the world record. “I want to save that for […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Bare handed burrowers scratch for gold in Barberton s

Out-of-work miners are scratching a dangerous and illegal living through small-scale gold mining in the Eastern Transvaal, writes Fumane Diseko Retrenched miners in the Eastern Transvaal are risking their lives for gold, digging their own tunnels into the hills around Barberton to find the ore that can support them and their families. The narrow tunnels […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Private consultant issued waste permits

A non-government official used official government forms to authorise importation of toxic waste to the country, writes Eddie Koch DEPUTY Environment Minister Bantu Holomisa this week announced an independent commission will investigate the toxic waste scandal that has rocked his ministry — amid new evidence that officials from the Department of Environment Affairs were this […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Editorial Fear of foreigners

It has been well said that South African journalism has been reduced to a wasteland during the apartheid years — censorship and oppression driving some of its brighter talents out of the industry, or out of the country, and Bantu Education doing its best to ensure immediately succeeding generations were ill-qualified to fill the vacuum. […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Gates employs the army

Pat Sidley MICROSOFT boss Bill Gates needed a bit of help from the Salvation Army for his mega-launch of Windows 95 this week. His competitor, IBM, helped a bit too — although they would deny it. Johannesburg commuters have been greeted all week by an army of unemployed men carrying signs saying: “It’s coming …” […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Who should own the profits of knowledge

Saliem Fakir South Africa, because of its rich biodiversity, is now attracting international companies in search of plant material that has horticultural or medicinal value. Traditional healers in this country have used various plants — about 3 000 different species — for the cure or remediation of various ailments. With new developments in chemical analysis, […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Beijing delegation falls behind on preparations

South Africa’s performance at the Beijing Conference could suffer because of poor preparation, reports Marion Edmunds The leaders of the South African delegation that will be going to the Beijing Conference next month put on brave faces this week, and said they were confident that South Africa would contribute meaningfully to the But, at the […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Seeing through the transparency claims

It would be nice to be able to congratulate Tito Mboweni on having produced the first truly plain- language bill of the new dispensation. The new draft of the Labour Relations Bill has been re-written, not just so as to incorporate the deals struck by labour, business and government in the National Economic, Development & […]

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/ 25 August 1995

Still life with sculpture

Jo’burg Art Gallery has found an unlikely audience — in street-photographers and their clients. RUTH SACK THE Johannesburg Art Gallery has for years expressed the desire to become meaningful, relevant and, perhaps, useful to its immediate neighbours — the people who occupy and commute through Joubert Park. Well, it’s happened — though not in the […]