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/ 6 December 1996
Mungo Soggot FINANCE WEEK has been buoying its circulation figures by sending about 2 000 copies of the publication each week to hotel chain City Lodge, which in exchange enjoys free advertising in the financial magazine. This means 15% of all Finance Week copies sold – R12 000 worth – are given away to readers. […]
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/ 6 December 1996
Give the land back, or develop it? Cato Manor presents the Land Claims Court with its first dilemma. Ann Eveleth reports PENSIONERS Agrippa Cebekhulu (65), Albert Ngwane (67) and Johannes Dlamini (69) grew up side by side in a freehold section of Cato Manor known as Good Hope Estate, on the border of present-day Chesterville. […]
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/ 6 December 1996
This week’s guest writer Mandla Langa looks at one of the human tragedies behind taxi violence AT 45, Charles Z Dlamini can cram myriad lifetimes into his own uncertain one. His bloodshot eyes have that long-distant, unsurprised look reminiscent of habitual survivors. Descended from a branch of the royal Swazi house and raised in Mpumalanga, […]
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/ 6 December 1996
Mail & Guardian Reporters TAIWAN on Thursday hit back at South Africa’s decision to cut diplomatic ties, announcing it would shelve most of its aid projects in South Africa and recall its ambassador. Foreign Minister John Chang told a press conference in Pretoria that 85% to 90% of its aid projects would only be resumed […]
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/ 6 December 1996
The Million Dollar Challenge is a unique event, and this year the play was of an exceptionally high standard, but the spectators’ behaviour wasn’t GOLF:Jon Swift T HERE are many things that are very different about the annual Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City … and not all of them have to do with […]
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/ 6 December 1996
RUGBY:Jon Swift PERHAPS the most amazing aspect of Francois Pienaar’s defection to the ranks of English league rugby came in the shape of the contention by South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu)chief executive Rian Oberholzer that the axed World Cup captain still has a future in Springbok rugby. That is surely stretching credibility to new […]
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/ 6 December 1996
Despite the media attacks, the IBAis doing a good job, argues Willie Currie THE Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has been closed. Not by Parliament, but by the press. This prediction, which coincides with nominations for the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Satra) Council, is premature. The IBA is alive and not about to disappear. Despite […]
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/ 6 December 1996
With the Appellate Division ruling in favour of Caxton, the Independent and Times Media groups have a fight on their hands, report Jacquie Golding-Duffy and David Shapshak TIMES MEDIA LIMITED’S (TML) management are unable to agree on the implications of the Appellate Division judgment reached in favour of printing and publishing group Caxton. The judgment, […]
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/ 6 December 1996
Heart problems threaten to cut the career of Africa’s top footballer short, but he is determined to play again SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi WHEN Nwankwo Kanu was voted African Footballer of the Year this week his emotions would have been unusually mixed for someone following in the footsteps of Liberian legend George Weah. While the tall, […]
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/ 6 December 1996
end accounts Andy Duffy THE Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has been ordered to rework its year-end accounts after the auditor general uncovered glaring errors in its figures. The auditor general’s office, which is also investigating allegations of financial mismanagement at the organisation, told the IBA it would be futile to present its March 1996 figures […]