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/ 2 February 2001
Party officials have rushed to take control of parliamentary committees investigating the arms procurement scandal Mungo Soggot Andrew Feinstein, the African National Congress MP who has been sidelined after adopting an independent stance over the arms saga, said this week he will not resign and will instead continue to push for a thorough probe of […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Barry Streek South African MPs are not a particularly interesting bunch of people, judging from the latest register of interests released in Parliament. They are, however, extremely well lubricated by liquor companies. Unfortunately for the investigators probing the arms deal, none of them have declared gifts from arms contractors. The MPs are obliged to declare […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Riaan Wolmarans CD OFTHEWEEK The Bomfunk MC’s know how to have fun. This is evident on the Finnish outfit’s debut album, In Stereo (Sony), from which the first single, Freestyler, shot them into the charts. This was followed by a string of hits like Uprocking Beats, B-Boys &Flygirls and Other Emcee’s. In Stereo is a […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Photographer Paul Alberts’s retrospective consists of 199 photographs taken over 30 years Matthew Burbidge ‘I’ll leave the happy pictures in my album of my family,” says photographer Paul Alberts of his exhibition, Retrospective 1970 to 2000, opening in Johannesburg next week. It is a brooding, sombre collection but then Alberts, like American photographer Diane Arbus, […]
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/ 2 February 2001
THE South African government will not intervene to save South African Mariette Bosch, who allegedly shot her best friend to marry her husband, from the gallows in Botswana. However, the Cape High Court is considering an application by Tanzanian national Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, the man allegedly responsible for the bomb that destroyed the United States […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Jaspreet Kindra Several African National Congress members have approached Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota with claims that some members of Parliament received bribes to influence the R43-billion arms procurement package. Lekota said after a media briefing in Johannesburg last week that he had directed the members to pass on any relevant information to the auditor […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Marianne Merten A black Anglican priest has been moved from his Mitchells Plain parish following a dispute with local church wardens that escalated into racial slurs and divided the congregation. The decision to ask Reverend Thokozile Gubangxa to leave as rector of Christ the King church in Rocklands was announced to the congregation last Sunday. […]
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/ 2 February 2001
The money paid to council members at Unisa could fund the studies of hundreds of students, reports David Macfarlane Chair a meeting a month and rake in R240?000 to R360?000 a year. That’s the jaw-dropping deal some of Unisa’s council members are currently rejoicing in. This contrasts with the free service most universities and technikons […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Jaspreet Kindra Democratic Alliance members want to assassinate KwaZulu-Natal’s ministers, MEC for Transport S’bu Ndebele told an amazed legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday. Ndebele was explaining why no answers could be provided to questions asked in the House about the costs of ministers’ security, transport and accommodation. He claimed the DA’s co-leaders, Marthinus van Schalkwyk […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Valentine Cascarino food Rare, cheap, quantitative and qualitative traditional African dishes not found in up-market restaurants are now offered in street restaurants, drawing many diners to the pavement. But few restaurateurs bother about the surrounding filth and lurking dangers. On our foray into the world of street food we’re led to an establishment along Wanderers […]