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/ 17 December 2001
FORMER president Nelson Mandela on Friday became the victim of an extraordinary personal attack by Pan Africanist Congress secretary general Thami ka Plaatjie. ”Mandela must be advised to take a break from active politics,” Plaatjie said in a statement. ”Aging is taking a heavy toll on him on his views. It is a great pity […]
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/ 17 December 2001
A 32-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly killing his 30-year-old wife at their home in Soshanguve, near Pretoria, police said on Friday. Inspector Percy Morokane said the man and the wife had separated a while ago and they were about to divorce. The husband who had moved out of their home visited the […]
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/ 17 December 2001
Two sons of two prominent Tweefontein farmers were killed when their microlight crashed on Thursday evening, Pretoria police said. Inspector Percy Morokane said the cause of the accident, which occurred around 6.30pm, was not known. ”They were flying over one of the farms when the microlight crashed. The two men in their early 20s died […]
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/ 16 December 2001
Pretoria | Saturday CRIME is under control in South Africa, Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete said in Pretoria on Friday. He said the country’s murder rate had dropped significantly, although the rate of theft and robbery had gone up when the first nine months of this year were compared to the same period last […]
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/ 14 December 2001
New York artist William Scarbrough has a reputation for working in a dangerous vein of subcultural installation and performance, writes James Sey.
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/ 14 December 2001
If current art awards and events are anything to go by, the most popular and successful medium in contemporary South African visual arts is, broadly speaking, sculpture, with a bit of video thrown in for good measure, writes Kathryn Smith.
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/ 14 December 2001
Tourists taking scenic flips over the Cape Peninsula for the next month will take a strange mental snapshot on the ride with them, writes Nicholas Dawes.
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/ 14 December 2001
<i>A Handful of Keys</i> is a frantic, hectic, mad and joyous pas-de-deux-de-ivories, a rollicking romp over two piano keyboards, writes Paul Tilsley.
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/ 14 December 2001
Lemmer and the manne at the Dorsbult need to take a bit more dam with their dop. Firstly, in the M&G comment entitled “Fact out” (December 7) they refer to the “disastrous turbo charge campaign of the 1980s”. There are only three survivors of this campaign. Myself, Eglin (who has forgotten it), and a happenstance […]