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/ 24 November 1997
MONDAY, 11.00AM: NATAL fast bowler Shaun Pollock is a certian starter in the opening game against the Australian Cricket Board Chairman’s XI at the Lilac Hill Park on Tuesday. Although the squad will only be announced later on Monday, Pollock will certianly play against his legendary uncle Graeme Pollock, who is one of the “golden […]
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/ 24 November 1997
MONDAY, 6.00PM PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela on Saturday morning invested visiting Indonesian President Mohamed Suharto with the Order of Good Hope, Class One, Grand Cross (Gold), South Africa’s highest civilain honour, immediately drawing fire from opposition parties. Democratic Party leader Tony Leon said the award to Suharto, and one recently bestowed on Libyan strongman Colonel Muammar […]
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/ 24 November 1997
MONDAY, 9.00AM: BRITAIN’s Sunday Telegraph revealed on Sunday that Anglo American plans this week to merge its gold mining operations into a single R20-billion company, to combat pressure from falling gold prices. Although Anglo American refused to comment, interim results are scheduled to be announced on Tuesday. It is expected that the opportunity will be […]
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/ 24 November 1997
MONDAY, 9.00AM: A PRETORIA court has placed the Islamic bank under provisional liquidation after a Reserve Bank-appointed auditor declared that the bank is insolvent. The Islamic Bank operates in accordance with Muslim principles and charges no interest. Instead it takes up shares in any venture it lends to, and treats deposits as inputs into a […]
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/ 21 November 1997
FRIDAY, 3:00PM: THE Aids Law Project at the University of Witwatersrand (ALP) says it has been approached by patients who received supplies of the banned Aids drug Virodene from a Pretoria doctor. In a press conference called to explain Thursday’s police raid on the team who created the controversial drug (see below), law project attorney […]
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/ 21 November 1997
Mechem may be removing landmines, but its labour practices and apartheid past are a minefield, writes Stefaans Brmmer South Africa’s government-owned landmine- clearing company, Mechem, facing new calls to make a clean sweep of its apartheid-era past, has become embroiled in a dispute with Mozambican labourers employed on one of its projects in that country. […]
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/ 21 November 1997
Andy Duffy The police probe into the head of the Cape Town-based presidential investigations task unit has so far found evidence on three counts of criminal activity. A representative for National Police Commissioner George Fivaz says several other allegations against director Andre Lincoln are also being investigated, but that the details remain sub judice. Western […]
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/ 21 November 1997
FRIDAY, 2.35AM: BAFANA BAFANA coach Clive Barker dropped six players and recalled most of the players missing from the international friendly against Germany last weekend, for the clash against Brazil at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg on December 7. Edries Burton (AmaZulu), Thabo Mngomeni (Bush Bucks), Junaid Hartley (Lens), Simon Gopane (Bloemfontein Celtic), Frank Schoeman […]
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/ 21 November 1997
FRIDAY, 8:00AM: A LABOUR court has ordered the striking Harmony mine workers back to work from this morning. Mine management has also warned that strikers who forcibly evicted ‘official’ union shaft stewards from their offices will face charges. THURSDAY, 11:00AM: THE National Union of Mineworkers has blamed Harmony mine management for a strike by an […]
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/ 21 November 1997
Mercedes Sayagues : Unspoilt places Life in Ras Nungwi is regulated by the tide. At Zanzibar’s northern tip, tides are gentle but far-reaching. As the turquoise water recedes 2,5km to the coral reef village women appear. Their high-pitched voices, Swahili laughter and lively gossip – women’s complicity in a rare moment of freedom from family […]