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/ 11 May 2001

Television giants get heavy

Deon Potgieter boxing There has been an early indicator to which way the Hassim Rahman camp will lean in the debate over whom he should defend his newly won universal heavyweight world title against. The main contenders are a rematch against Lennox Lewis, who has a television contract with HBO, or Mike Tyson, who has […]

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/ 11 May 2001

The killing stone

In an attempt to understand his father’s death from asbestosis, Francois Loots returned to his hometown of Prieska to face the sickness and its consequences March 2000. My father complains of a lack of energy and shortness of breath. He is diagnosed with mesothelioma, also called asbestos cancer. Little is known about mesothelioma. It is […]

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/ 11 May 2001

Sex during pregnancy

Paul Kerton Body Language Your partner’s body will change but it doesn’t mean that you should give up sex. As her tummy develops, it can become quite a beautiful erogenous zone in itself. And I don’t know of any man alive who has ever complained when his partner’s breasts increased by a size or two. […]

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/ 11 May 2001

SA Red Cross in financial dire straits

Charlotte Mathews The South African Red Cross, the largest humanitarian organisation in the country, is struggling with a financial crisis that it hopes can be resolved within the next few weeks. If not, a wide range of aid projects will be jeopardised. Mandisa Kalako-Williams, vice-president of the Red Cross, said the organisation’s fixed assets were […]

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/ 11 May 2001

Revamp makes Alex safer

A cellphone service provider has spent R15-million on upgrading Alexandra police station and magistrate’s court Ntuthuko Maphumulo It is a typical busy scene as you drive into Wynberg towards the Alexandra police station and magistrate’s court. There are many people going to the taxi rank, and around the rank are the makeshift stalls of hawkers […]

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/ 11 May 2001

Report reveals justice system faults

Louise Stack and Paula Soggot South Africa’s criminal justice system is in crisis. The crime rate is high and the prisons are overcrowded. The prosecution rate is low and courts are backlogged. The number of cases being prosecuted has been dropping since the mid-1980s. The declining number of cases prosecuted indicates that case backlogs are […]

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/ 11 May 2001

Pretoria megamall is a fire hazard

The Menlyn Park Shopping Centre has been given 60 days to comply with safety regulations Roshila Pillay In the week that Makro in Woodmead, Johannesburg, was razed by a fire, the Menlyn Park Shopping Centre in Pretoria was found to be a fire hazard. The R800-million complex, which sees an average of two million people […]

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/ 11 May 2001

Please help kill the messenger

Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION I am not by nature a violent man. The excesses of my physical reactions to being grandly pissed off are confined usually to the slamming of doors, loud and vivid cursing and the occasional attack on inanimate objects. I once heaved a miscreant typewriter out of an SABC third-floor window and kicked […]

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/ 11 May 2001

Owen holds the key

Liverpool_s fast-maturing striker could make the difference in the FA Cup final Neal Collins The good news for Liverpool fans going into Saturday_s fascinating FA Cup final against Arsenal at the Millennium stadium in Cardiff is this: Michael Owen looks unstoppable. The bad news? That rugged Red rearguard of Sammi Hyypia and Stephane Henchoz allowed […]