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/ 29 September 1995

Health centre gives worker cancer

A health and safety centre has been closed after one of its employees developed lung cancer, reports Eddie Koch A health and safety centre that has played a major role in highlighting the dangers of asbestos has been shut down by the government — because it failed to report that one of its workers was […]

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/ 29 September 1995

He had just had it with the gangsters

Rehana Rossouw NEIGHBOURS of Cape Town gangster killer Harry Joshua believe his crime was not that heinous: he was only cleaning up a little. “He was just ridding the area of some of the vermin,” was one of the descriptions of Joshua’s shooting spree last May which left five young men dead and two wounded, […]

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/ 29 September 1995

FW’s getting shirty for the elections

Marion Edmunds NATIONAL Party leader Deputy President FW de Klerk is to spend as little time as possible in a suit in the run-up to the local government elections, possibly hoping to match President Nelson Mandela’s casual shirts with a range of his own. Sources in the NP say they are doing their best to […]

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/ 29 September 1995

SBDC negotiations hit a slight snag

Rowan Callaghan Negotiations between the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) have gone largely unnoticed until a deadlock in talks caused the corporation’s annual general meeting (AGM) to be re-scheduled last week. The SBDC has long been a target of criticism by particularly small black business, who have […]

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/ 29 September 1995

Things fall apart in Cambodia

THEATRE: David Le Page REPRESENTING the agonies of a nation like Cambodia is a considerable challenge. It carries with it great responsibility, owed to the memory of the dead, but mostly to the living who must ensure that the 20th century’s dreadful pattern of mass annihilations does not continue into the next. Regretfully, it’s not […]

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/ 29 September 1995

RDP changes course

Marion Edmunds RDP roleplayers in government met this week — without Jay Naidoo — to grapple with the realisation that the RDP is too much “pie-in-the-sky” and needs to be grounded in practical projects that promote economic Senior RDP officials, government leaders and technocrats met for three days in Cape Town to discuss ways to […]

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/ 29 September 1995

LKJ takes the rap for bandiete

The sound of poetry rocked gently against the walls of Pretoria Central Prison last weekend. Hugh Lewin, a political inmate of Central in the 60s, reports on a day with LKJ and eight South African poets Ask any prison graduate: there’s one fear greater than the fear of going to prison. It’s the fear of […]

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/ 29 September 1995

The Desmond Tutu of SA Jewry

Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris in The Mark Gevisser Profile This week, during Rosh Hashanah, two strange things happened to Rabbi Cyril Harris. They are not unconnected. On Tuesday morning at 6am he received a personal call from Nelson Mandela, wishing the Jewish People a Happy New Year (his awestruck maid had to explain to the […]

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/ 29 September 1995

Maxi Movies in mini cinemas

An innovative idea for small cinemas will bring the movies to the townships, writes Neil Bierbaum Ster-Moribo’s purchase this month of a 60-percent share in the Maxi Movies franchise operation has provided it with the growth it has been seeking among black audiences. Maxi Movies has a new concept for cinemas: a SuperVHS video system, […]

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/ 29 September 1995

Back to the Brigadier’s attack plan

The teams who have had the most Currie Cup success this season have been playing Buurman van Zyl’s way with forward domination to the fore RUGBY: Jon Swift IT is perhaps a trite observation, but this has been a long, hard rugby season. No team typifies this more fully than Transvaal. Champions of virtually all […]