Thebe Mabanga
Thebe Mabanga is a former journalist.
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/ 7 November 2003

Fighting for kwaito

CD OF THE WEEK: Mapaputsi: Kleva

We can now safely say we have another kwaito star to speak of. Mapaputsi’s follow-up album Kleva (Ghetto Ruff) will solicit a sigh of relief that, after the runaway success of his debut Izinja, Mapaputsi did not sink like a lead balloon, according to Thebe Mabanga.

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/ 5 September 2003

Bucs have all the luck

As Pirates fans deliriously celebrate their second premiership title in three years, the frenzy should not be so much out of jubilation but relief. For, in what was supposed to be a shorter season because of fewer teams, the Buccaneers were rarely swashbuckling and instead mostly rugged Sea Robbers.

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/ 21 March 2003

Joburg’s R1,5bn pension hole

The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Council will for the first time disclose a R1,5-billion unfunded pension liability and faces a court battle over its benefit obligations to former employees. The liability stems from apartheid-era discriminatory conditions of service.

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/ 15 March 2003

New fund to fight gender violence

A coalition of NGOs working in the area of violence against women and children has called on the government to recognise the scourge as a hindrance to development and to establish a special fund to fight it. The fund is to be located in the Department of Trade and Industry.