The Bulls stormed into third place on the Super 12 log with an astonishing 75-14 victory over an outplayed and outmuscled Stormers outfit at a packed Loftus stadium in Pretoria on Saturday afternoon. Stormers captain Neil de Kock was magnanimous in defeat. ”The Bulls played really well today and I hope they take this performance overseas and fly the flag for us,” he said.
Four people are dead after clashes broke out on Thursday between rival supporters of presidential frontrunners Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba ahead of historic elections on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a report said on Friday.
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including sex Laws relating to prostitution and homosexuality are no longer enforced and the government has altered it stance on sex. But have South Africans shaken off Calvinistic attitudes? Mark Gevisser reports WHEN South Africa’s first democratic parliament decided to amend its rules to allow for broader definitions of who could qualify as “spouses” of […]
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/ 23 December 1994
Gaye Davis at the ANC conference BOTH Winnie Mandela and Peter Mokaba’s names were absent from the controversial list of handpicked national executive committee (NEC) nominees drawn up at ANC president Nelson Mandela’s behest but resoundingly rejected by delegates. Confronted by a potential grassroots revolt by delegates who believed the list interfered with their democratic […]
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/ 23 December 1994
Justin Pearce: Bloemfontein THEY always wait for the green man in Bloemfontein. Even if there isn’t a car in sight, pedestrians won’t step off the pavement while the signal is still red. To do so would be to disrupt the relentless orderliness of a city dominated by government buildings: sandstone monuments from the 19th century […]
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plan THERE are 22 presidential lead projects for which a total of R1,06-billion has already been disbursed. Progress, as reported from the presidential office, is as follows: 1. Land restitution: Business plan approved on December 1, R5,1-million allocated. 2. Land redistribution: Business plan approved on December 1, R2,1-million allocated. 3. National capacity building programme: Business […]
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/ 23 December 1994
Reg Rumney digs through the office pile of promotional junk and remembers the invitations and press releases he might have missed AS any good PR knows, attracting the attention of journalists is not easy. It is an open question whether this is because they are overworked, don’t have secretaries to organise their lives, or are […]
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/ 23 December 1994
At last the WM&G is able to disclose the identity of the man behind the momentous Inkathagate scandal. David Beresford reports THE Weekly Mail & Guardian can finally disclose the identity of the man behind the Inkathagate scandal, who may have changed the course of South African history. He is Brian Morrow, a former member […]
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/ 23 December 1994
So censorship has gone? Hustler magazine editor Jeff Zerbst discovers few people want to celebrate this new- found freedom of expression with him “The cummulative (sic) effect is an important factor when a publication like Hustler is discussed.” (The censors) “We agree.” (Hustler) THE Weekly Mail &Guardian has invited me to celebrate the death of […]
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/ 23 December 1994
Reg Rumney provides an indispensable guide to framers of RDP-correct policy documents RDP may spell “rape, destroy and pillage” to some cynical business people, as Minister without Portfolio Jay Naidoo has suggested. To many businessmen and women it simply spells “money”, judging by the number of opportunistic press releases that linked the RDP to all […]