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/ 14 February 1997
Local journalists have been asked to lobby support for US prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Rehana Rossouw reports SOUTH AFRICAN media workers, academics and journalists have been asked to add their voices to a growing clamour to save a journalist from execution by lethal injection in the United States. Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, president of the Black […]
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/ 14 February 1997
The Shobashobane massacre has come to trial, but the list of suspects is decreasing and people question whether justice will be done. Ann Eveleth reports DUMAZILE NYAWOSE watched helplessly as armed men stabbed her 17-year-old daughter Phindile to death. They propped her limp body in a sitting position in a waterhole and moved on. Amos […]
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/ 14 February 1997
A UN report has revealed mismanagement and breaking of rules by officials at the Rwanda genocide tribunal , writes Chris McGreal A UNITED NATIONS report says the international Rwanda genocide trials have been crippled by chaotic management, underqualified legal staff and indifference at UN headquarters. The UN inspector general, Karl Paschke, said that unless there […]
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/ 14 February 1997
As the recent riots have shown, cross- subsidisation between black and white areas=20 has failed as a policy. Aspasia Karras=20 reports THE senseless death of young residents in=20 Eldorado Park was not part of the=20 transformation agenda of local government.=20 What the chaos reflected was the latent=20 social upheaval precipitated by the=20 democratisation of institutional […]
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/ 14 February 1997
MORE than a week after rioting to protest high taxes, residents of Johannesburg’s coloured areas remain defiant of the government, saying that an old oppressor has merely been replaced with a new one. The rates row which sparked the rioting – in which police have confirmed two people died – is only one of many […]
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/ 14 February 1997
Shyam Bhatia in Cairo EGYPT’S only two hard rock bands have abandoned rehearsals, hidden their poste rs and locked up their CDs after a police crackdown on heavy-metal fans brande d as Satanists. A satanic fever sweeping the country has prompted some Islamic leaders to warn that “deviants” deserve the death penalty, and Egypt’s opposi […]
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/ 14 February 1997
This week’s guest writer, Zakes Mda, speaks to skilled black professionals about why they’re planning to leave the country `I DON’T feel guilty at all,” says Wilson Mokgadi. “I feel angry instead. This is not a chicken run. This is a second exile.” We are in a restaurant at the Johannesburg International Airport. He is […]
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/ 14 February 1997
Helena Smith in Tirana THE road to Albania’s economic integration=20 in Europe is potholed. The furore over=20 pyramid investment schemes has exposed the=20 fragility of free enterprise in a country=20 emerging from one of the world’s most=20 centralised political systems. Their collapse highlights how criminality=20 has become a way of life. Five years into=20 democracy, […]
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/ 14 February 1997
TENNIS: Jon Swift IT must be more than satisfying to captain Danie Visser that the 3-1 victory over Russia in the Durban Davis Cup tie was built on the success of the less heralded players rather than on the often overworked talents of Wayne Ferreira. And, in the analysis, only Ferreira came out on the […]
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/ 14 February 1997
From carpets to computers, the public register reveals what gifts MPs have received – or in some cases what they haven’t received. Rehana Rossouw reports ALMOST all the visitors to room V121 in Parliament this week were journalists eager to peek at the assets of South Africa’s elected leaders. If they were hoping for evidence […]