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/ 12 February 1999
THE DAVID GLEASON COLUMN When is a loan a gift? Does it matter? Well, yes it does, especially when commerce and banks are involved. And I suspect the story I am about to relate may come to feature prominently as the evidence unravels before a special tribunal over the course of the year. Once upon […]
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/ 12 February 1999
Emeka Nwandiko Bathed in fluorescent light, Lisa Bornman points a 9mm Taurus pistol at a red bull’s- eye and fires. Despite the debate raging in the country whether handguns should be banned, Bornman takes weapons training to protect herself. She is part of a growing legion of women who believe a gun is the means […]
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/ 12 February 1999
Welz, the editor of <em>noseWEEK</em>, asked the Cape High Court this week to seize incriminating documents from the firm H Mohamed & Associates.
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/ 12 February 1999
LEGISLATION to liberalise Mozambique’s telecommunications sector is nearing completion and will be presented to cabinet and parliament for approval soon, the country’s deputy minister of transport and communications, Antonio Fernandes, said on Thursday. The new law will allow Mozambique’s state telecom company, TDM, to commercialise or partially privatise core services by teaming up with foreign […]
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/ 12 February 1999
Tangeni Amupadhi The official police watchdog body is set to arrest and charge a policeman for raping his three-year-old daughter after police failed to do so for three months after the abuse was first reported to the child protection unit in the Vaal Triangle. The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) said that, within a week of […]
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/ 12 February 1999
steel Ben Turok In 1958 when Marius Schoon applied for membership of the Congress of Democrats (COD), the Congress Alliance (as the African National Congress-led movement was then known) was actively fighting to defend its policy of non-racialism against those who wanted to establish the Pan Africanist Congress as a basically anti-white organisation. The ANC […]
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/ 12 February 1999
Stephen Langtry The New Apostolic Church, which drew applause recently from Deputy President Thabo Mbeki for its proposed new national anthem, has a shady past which extends from a close relationship with the Nazi regime to support for apartheid. Confronted by this information, a representative for Mbeki, Titus Mafolo, said: “It is difficult for the […]
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/ 12 February 1999
Adam Levin chats to some of the greats coming to Benoni this weekend about the politics and possibilities of world music The first time I heard Yungchen Lhamo’s heavenly, snow-pure, bone-rattling voice was in 1995 at Womadelaide, the Australian version of the unmissable event coming to Benoni this weekend … Only Miss Lhamo was rather […]
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/ 12 February 1999
DENMARK has agreed to give Benin 44 billion CFA francs (about $76 million) over five years to alleviate poverty and promote development. As well as helping to increase public participation in development, the money will go to promoting human rights and good governance, Beninese officials on Friday. The donation is the result of talks held […]
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/ 12 February 1999
Farmers on South Africa’s northern border are dispossessing their South African workers and trucking in Zimbabweans, who are willing to work for R5 a day. Ann Eveleth reports Maswiri Boerdery director Andries Fourie is the quintessential old-style farmer. Khaki- clad and drunk with the power he exerts over the 400 South African farmworkers he dismissed […]