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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 […]
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/ 12 September 1997
Pat McDermott : Cricket South Africa faces the prospect of a Christmas and New Year with the national side away from home for the first time since our readmittance to the world game. It is a bleak prospect, fraught with the realities of television coverage from the sub-continent for the series against Pakistan and early-morning […]
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/ 12 September 1997
<em>Katizas Journey</em> records how, at one point in his career as a petty thief, he stole 50c from a blind beggars tin cup. and recon
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/ 12 September 1997
Controversial MEC proves too much for one of her top officials, writes Andy Duffy The head of education in the North West province has quit his post in protest against alleged nepotism by the provincial education MEC, who handed out plum jobs to members of her family. Gulam-Husien Mayet quietly stepped down as provincial education […]
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/ 12 September 1997
Gustav Thiel The Nederduitse Gerefor-meerde Kerk (NGK) , once again under pressure from its world body to repudiate apartheid, continues to find biblical justification for the separation of races. Although the NGK apologised in 1990 at its annual synod for as its moderator Doctor Freek Swanepoel puts it those who were hurt by apartheid and […]