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/ 6 September 1996

ANC briefs regions on Holomisa saga

Gaye Davis FINALITY on Bantu Holomisa’s status as an African National Congress (ANC) member could be reached as early as next week. The ANC National Executive Committee (NEC), which must hear Holomisa’s appeal against his expulsion by a disciplinary committee, is scheduled to meet following the Constitutional Court’s judgment on Friday on the new Constitution. […]

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/ 6 September 1996

To live and die in the District Six

Rehana Rossouw EBRAHIM JACOBS says his heart belongs in District Six, and he supports the application to the Land Claims Court because it offers the best opportunity for tenants to return to the area. Jacobs’s family was among the last to leave District Six. They were kicked out in 1981 after alternative housing was built […]

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/ 6 September 1996

Opposition party joins Burundi’s ‘struggle’

Chris McGreal BURUNDI’S Tutsi-dominated military regime was grappling with renewed Hutu rebel attacks on the capital this week as the country’s largest political party threw its support behind the insurgents in a struggle it compared to black South Africans’ fight against apartheid. Within hours of the announcement the army said rebels had launched a fresh […]

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/ 6 September 1996

Minister’s book slams pro-apartheid business

A new book co-authored by Kader Asmal is likely to cause embarrassment in some of South Africa’s boardrooms, reports Mungo Soggot SOME of South Africa’s top business leaders come under fire in a new book on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission co-authored by Water Affairs Minister computing Kader Asmal which fingers companies which supported apartheid. […]

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/ 6 September 1996

Battle of the chiefs

Johannesburg’s cultural politicians experienced a week of turmoil, reports HAZEL FRIEDMAN CHRISTOPHER TILL has lost his battle to hang on to the title of Johannesburg’s director of culture, despite massive support from the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU). The predominantly black union has rallied around Till ever since the Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council […]

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/ 6 September 1996

Photographer explores lunatic ambiguity

PHOTOGRAPHY: Marilyn Keegan – THE invitation to Canned Africa at Cape Town’s Association for Visual Arts describes it as a photographic exhibition. This, however, is a trifle misleading. In these 11 giant works, Geoffrey Grundlingh has pushed the frontiers of photography into another dimension. He has been the head of the photographic department at the […]

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/ 30 August 1996

Gibbs gets his chance, Kuiper heads for

sixes CRICKET: Jon Swift ONE of the inevitable things about sport is that as the seasons change, so do the faces of the men out there in the middle. And so it is with the composition of the two cricket sides announced by the South African selectors this week. Adrian Kuiper, once such a vital […]

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/ 30 August 1996

MPs can expect further pay hikes in 1996

A COMMISSION set up to determine what salaries and benefits public representatives should receive has employed consultants to do just that — at a cost of more than R1-million. Sakkie Olivier, secretary of the Commission on Remuneration of Representatives, said KPMG Global Edge’s tender of R992 000 to investigate and make recommendations on salaries and […]