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Hazel Friedman THE future of dance at the Performing Arts=20 Council of the Transvaal (Pact) – South=20 Africa’s largest arts council – is in=20 jeopardy after a spate of shock=20 resignations by senior ballet staff and=20 dancers. This comes amid growing panic over=20 the future of the Pact ballet and=20 contemporary dance companies. =20 At […]
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/ 31 January 1997
CRICKET:Jon Swift THE problem with England’s cricket at the=20 moment is not so much the whining which=20 emanates from the benighted isle over its=20 failure to succeed, but that beating the=20 Poms gives very little real compass point=20 with which to judge the true value of the=20 sides that do so and, it must be […]
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/ 31 January 1997
The truth about assassinations is making=20 news through the Steyn Report and the truth=20 commission Mail & Guardian Reporter The Mail & Guardian has a summary of the=20 Steyn Report, a document considered so=20 explosive that President Nelson Mandela=20 chose not to make its details public after=20 he was briefed about its findings in case=20 […]
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/ 31 January 1997
An Mpumalanga task team flies out to check=20 the credibility of would-be nature reserve=20 magnate amid claims of dubious deals=20 overseas. Justin Arenstein reports A MULTI-PARTY task team from the Mpumalanga=20 legislature is visiting Kenya and Dubai to=20 investigate allegations against the Dolphin=20 Group, the company that was handed control=20 over the province’s prime nature […]
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/ 31 January 1997
A trip to Xiamen reveals a thriving metropolis. Madeleine Wackernagel reports on China’s experiment with capitalism THE brand new, marble and chrome airport at Xiamen was the first surprise. The second, how busy the city was on a Sunday night. Street cleaners were out in force, McDonald’s was doing a roaring trade and everywhere there […]
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/ 31 January 1997
Enoch Mthembu and Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu=20 Buthelezi called his closest party allies=20 to a secret meeting in Pretoria on January=20 23 to determine the fate of KwaZulu-Natal=20 Premier Frank Mdlalose. A senior IFP member who was briefed about=20 the meeting said it was the last in a=20 series of events that […]
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/ 31 January 1997
GLYNISO’HARA talks to Be Like Water’s front=20 man Leonel Bastos about gender, sex,=20 lyrics, life, love – and that massive new=20 record deal PRODUCER/songwriter/guitarist/ singer=20 Leonel Bastos arrives at the interview=20 looking like a tall Buddhist pixie, his=20 head shaved, sporting round silver=20 earrings, pyjama-like pants and a sky-blue=20 T-shirt littered with blue flowers. Bass […]
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/ 31 January 1997
Jim Day IN Johannesburg General Hospital’s=20 maternity section, posters advertise=20 “couples’ classes” on childbirth, an=20 “active birth discussion”, the benefits of=20 breast feeding and tastefully coloured=20 photographs showing the stages of=20 development of a foetus. Absent from the displays, however, is any=20 mention that the facility, along with=20 others throughout South Africa, will begin=20 offering […]
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/ 31 January 1997
Angella Johnson TWO lithesome ladies in their Limousine=20 took part in a market joyride around some=20 of Soweto and Eldorado Park’s shebeens and=20 taverns to promote Gilbey’s VO brandy and=20 Radio Metro.=20 Most of the station’s top DJs took part in=20 the unusual promotion – to the delight of a=20 few locals who turned out […]
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/ 31 January 1997
Mungo Soggot PLANNING some cosmetic surgery, but you=20 don’t want anyone to know about it? Why not=20 throw in a trip to South Africa, visit the=20 Kruger Park and see the fairest Cape – all=20 for half what you would pay in Europe? This is the pitch Carrie Globisch, a=20 beautician, plans to make when […]