Staff Reporter
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/ 15 June 1995

Another two firms come to market

Jacques Magliolo reports on the latest two firms to come to Adding to this year’s spate of listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange were German chemical giant Hoechst and Eastern Cape-based Sovereign Foods Investments. The market capitalisation — issued shares multiplied by the share price — amount to R322-million, boosting the R80-billion already added in […]

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/ 15 June 1995

Rich and diverse triple bill

BALLET: Stanley Peskin IN Marius Petipa’s Paquita, Roland Petit’s Carmen and Mikhail Fokine’s Firebird, Pact Ballet presents three works that are luxurious and richly satisfying in quite different Paquita (1881), originally a three-act ballet which has survived as a series of divertissements, has been given a new production. An impressively ornamented archway (designed by Riaan […]

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/ 15 June 1995

Saldanha Now for the good news

One offshoot of the controversy surrounding Iscor’s proposed Saldanha mill is that the locals are finally being consulted, reports Rehana Rossouw The good news about Iscor’s planned Saldanha steel mill is the emergence of real consultation and debate at grassroots level. This was well illustrated last Friday when cabinet members and members of the Western […]

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/ 15 June 1995

Editorial Mandela’s multi pronged strategy

Amid all the sharp and confusing exchanges between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party, a strategy is emerging of the type that President Nelson Mandela is so astute at putting in On the one side, the police and various special investigators are closing in on IFP leaders and allies implicated in violence. […]

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/ 15 June 1995

Give us green courts

Ann Eveleth The Wildlife Society of Southern Africa has called for the creation of an environmental court to hear cases involving environmental disputes. Wildlife Society representative Jeremy Ridl, who made the submission to the first public hearing of the KwaZulu/Natal Constitutional Committee in Durban this week, said the multi-faceted nature of environmental disputes requires people […]

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/ 15 June 1995

Housing gets biggest slice of RDP

Reg Rumney Housing subsidies and infrastructure have the biggest chunk of allocations from the Reconstruction and Development Programme Fund — R1,4-billion out of R7,8-billion. This is revealed in Minister without Portfolio Jay Naidoo’s report to Parliament last week, Taking the RDP Forward. The document shows R1,4-billion has been allocated from the RDP Fund to boost […]

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/ 15 June 1995

Constitutional Assembly asked to oil the wheels

Justin Pearce South African aromatherapists have approached the Constitutional Assembly to try to gain official recognition for their profession. A submission to the Constitutional Assembly made by Moyra Metcalfe, chairperson of the Association of Aromatherapists Southern Africa argues “that each individual has a right to choose and maintain natural, holistic health. “He should be given […]

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/ 15 June 1995

Niehaus rejects Christian baasskap

Rehana Rossouw People campaigning for the new South African Constitution to promote a Christian state are political opportunists trying to reinstate minority baasskap, said African National Congress MP Carl Niehaus this week . Niehaus — who has a theology degree — was responding to the recent march on Parliament by several thousand conservative Christains demanding […]

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/ 15 June 1995

M Net’s negotiating trump card

M-Net corporate affairs manager Cawe Mahlati, tells Aspasia Karras how she hopes to see M-Net become the frontrunner of global broadcasting in Africa Articulate and determined, Cawe Mahlati is a force to be reckoned with in private broadcasting. Not only does she have a vision of what broadcasting can become in the future, but she […]

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/ 15 June 1995

South Africa’s golden Iron Age

Iron-age sites reveal some astonishing artefacts — and shatter some dearly held beliefs, reports Bruce Around the time William the Conqueror was gloating over his victory against Britain in 1066, Iron-Age communities on the banks of the Limpopo River were bartering gold and ivory with Swahili traders for glass beads from Egypt, cotton from India […]