Staff Reporter
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/ 14 August 1998

Is there a bear on Buffett’s farm?

Robert D Hershey Jr If actions speak louder than words, the person many consider the United States’s most astute stock-market investor seems to be whispering “sell”. While Warren E Buffett, the decabillionaire “Oracle of Omaha”, has always argued that market drops provide chances to scoop up bargains, his proposed acquisition of General Re, the US’s […]

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/ 14 August 1998

Give us back this day our Daily

Bread Heidi Clark Staff at a school for 250 former juvenile delinquents and street children in the Eastern Cape won a court interdict last week, preventing an attempt by the project’s trust to close it down. The children were facing eviction at the end of September from the institution which has been both their home […]

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/ 14 August 1998

Putting Freud in his Place

Freud’s deathbed fantasies have been brought to life in a collaboration of sculpture, performance and sound, writes Brenda Atkinson Sigmund Freud has become a much- derided father-figure in the Nineties, a paternal icon who has been killed many times over by both his sons and daughters. Post-modernism and feminism have declared the founder of psychoanalysis […]

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/ 14 August 1998

Meltdown in mountain kingdom

William Boot Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s intervention this week in Lesotho’s election crisis may prove too little, too late to head off disaster in the beleaguered kingdom. Mbeki, Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfred Nzo and Minister of Defence Joe Modise secured agreement from both the governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and the country’s major […]

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/ 14 August 1998

Nanda gets last laugh

Suzy Bell One of South Africa’s most highly rated political cartoonists, Nanda Soobben, has just scooped a handsome grant from the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology to produce a 20-minute docu-animation film, based on his political cartoons from the Eighties and Nineties. Soobben, who is a weekly political cartoonist forThe Independent on Saturday […]

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/ 14 August 1998

ANC declines SACP talks invitation

HOWARD BARREL in Cape Town | Friday 8.00pm. THE African National Congress this week turned down a South African Communist Party request for a meeting between their leaders to discuss serious disagreements between the parties that emerged last month. The SACP had hoped the parties could get together before a two-day meeting of the ANC’s […]

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/ 14 August 1998

Return to sender

Tracy Murinik On show in CapeTown I was sold, and then so was the painting. It said: “Narcissus daarling, it’s time to go home” . and the message on the back clarified, “dearest daarling, I love oysters. Yours forever . sign here”. And for the moment all I wanted was to sign. And then there […]

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/ 14 August 1998

Richmond station closure is fishy — Nkabinde

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 5.00pm. UNITED Democratic Movement national secretary Sifiso Nkabinde on Friday expressed “shock” at Thursday’s closure of the Richmond police station, saying it is “strange” that the action was taken only after police officers accused of complicity in the violence demanded proof of the allegations against them. “The UDM finds it […]

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/ 14 August 1998

Justice reform must be speeded up, says Omar

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 5.00pm. JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar has said that the the transformation of the judiciary must be speeded up. Speaking on Friday after the week’s outcry over the handling of the SA Rugby Football Union’s successful application to have a commission of inquiry overturned, Omar said the judiciary’s accountability should […]

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/ 14 August 1998

Joint fight against crime

Howard Barrell Leaders of agriculture and business joined forces to fight worsening crime this week – and to persuade desperate farmers and businessmen not to resort to unlawful protests against the government’s seeming inability to get to grips with the problem. “It is becoming increasingly difficult to prevent our members taking the law into their […]