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/ 5 May 2000

The ‘train drivers’ giving Mugabe a

headache Mercedes Sayagues To many Zimbabweans, Morgan Tsvangirai is nothing short of a hero. The man stands up to a repressive government. He denounces corruption, defends workers’ interests and rights, and chairs the movement to reform the Constitution. For his troubles he is bashed on the head and needs stitches. The attack appears ordered by […]

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/ 5 May 2000

The silencing of the guns

You can make your dreams come true without resorting to crime, young people heard at a Freedom Day concert I’m in the Beemer with two-thirds of Shana when the new Boom Shaka tune, Change Your Mind, hits the airwaves from Durban Youth Radio. Nathi, one of the chiselled young singers of Durban’s hot new kwaito […]

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/ 5 May 2000

The prison boss from hell

One of South Africa’s most senior prison officials has been linked to a slew of political assassinations Paul Kirk KwaZulu-Natal’s newly appointed deputy director of correctional services, Russel Ngubo, is being investigated by the elite Scorpion unit and the police for at least 30 murders. Ngubo – who is also an African National Congress councillor […]

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/ 5 May 2000

The knives are out

After four years in the wilderness, Damien Hirst, the hooligan genius of the art world, is back Gordon Burn Four years ago, for his last major show, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, Damien Hirst made a piece featuring a giant beach ball bobbling on a column of air. The ball was multicoloured and […]