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/ 15 September 1997
MONDAY, 5.30PM BUSINESS South Africa and Union federation Cosatu on Monday denied consensus had been reached on the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill. Cosatu welcomed Labour Minister Tito Mboweni’s decision to place a revised Bill before Parliament, but cautioned that it wants further changes to the Bill and consensus has not been reached. “While we […]
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/ 15 September 1997
MONDAY, 2.00PM SOUTH Africa’s callback operators are going back to court to prevent the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Satra) from carrying out a renewed threat to shut down callback operations. The regulator had previously said that it will not initiate prosecutions against callback operators until the completion of a pending high court hearing on […]
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/ 15 September 1997
TUESDAY, 9.00AM POLICE commissioner George Fivaz said on Monday that the Witwatersrand attorney-general has indicated he will institute criminal proceedings against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and her “football team” for the murder of Lolo Sono if the young man’s body can be found. Sono was a member of the Mandela United Football Team, a gang of township […]
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/ 15 September 1997
MONDAY, 4.30PM THE United Nations team sent to investigate the alleged mass slaughter of Rwandan Hutu refugees in the former Zaire has given the new regime two days to allow it to begin work, the mission said on Monday. The team has told President Laurent Kabila’s government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that […]
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/ 15 September 1997
MONDAY, 2.00PM ZAMBIA has banned all imports of flour, including flour in transit, in a bid to gain a preferential trade agreement with South Africa. About 10_000 tons of flour a year are supplied to Zambia by SA flour millers Premier Milling, Tiger Oats and Bokomo/Sasko, making it SA’s third-largest flour export market. The Zambians […]
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/ 12 September 1997
Downtown Johannesburg and the makeshift studio on the third floor of the Carlton Hotel teems with squirming bodies. I am still getting used to the idea of hanging out in a room full of strangers wearing nothing but g-strings and layers of paint. But, even through the flesh and billowing smoke and visibly frayed nerves, […]
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/ 12 September 1997
Sechaba kaNkosi The war of words on the future of the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) took another turn this week when it entered the fray, angrily dismissing calls for its review as naive, misdirected and one-sided. Nedlac officials argued that the debate should not be about whether it can or cannot deliver […]
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/ 12 September 1997
FRIDAY, 4.00PM AUDITOR-general Henri Kluever has called for a full-scale commission of enquiry to establish whether relatives or close friends of Housing Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele improperly benefited from the Motheo housing project in Mpumalanga. An inquiry is one of the recommendations contained in a report on the auditor-general’s special investigation into the project which is […]
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/ 12 September 1997
doctors Mungo Soggot The Department of Health is locked in dispute with South Africas top academic medics over controversial plans to ban public health service doctors from doing private work The department has tabled its plan with the Public Service Bargaining Chamber and held its latest round of talks with medical profession representatives this week. […]
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/ 12 September 1997
Companies have been quick to cash in on the demand for Princess Diana memorabilia, ranging from china to T-shirts, writes James T Madore Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe long have topped lists of departed celebrities with high sales of collectibles. But they will be eclipsed by Diana, the Princess of Wales, for at least the […]