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/ 15 December 1994
Mduduzi ka Harvey THE ANC has backed a campaign to have Dimitrios Skoularikis and Friedrich Brenner, who were found guilty of a brutal triple murder in 1987, released on political grounds. The two men were found guilty of the 1986 murders in Germiston of Costas Phakos, his wife Anna Maria and her father, “polony king” […]
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/ 15 December 1994
Star editor Richard Steyn was dismissed in what was an early shot of a new newspaper war. By Weekly Mail Reporters ATHOUGH there has been a furore centred on the ”resignation” of The Star editor-in-chief Richard Steyn, he was in fact fired. Sources close to Argus management say that Steyn was summoned by Argus Newspapers […]
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/ 15 December 1994
GOLF: Neil Manthorp MORAL outrage and righteous indignation so often accompany our very own Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City every year that we ought to be used to it by now. The trouble is, immediately after the gluttonous mountain of cash in the impoverished former Bophuthatswana, we then have to try and swallow the […]
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/ 9 December 1994
South Africa has produced its first full-length opera — about the life of enigmatic `prophet’ Enoch Mgijima. Justin Pearce spoke to librettist Michael Williams THE old government liked opera. Or so it seemed, since they subsidised the building of opera houses and the staging of lavish performances of Verdi, Wagner and Puccini. But, for all […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Moves are afoot to beef up competition policy, says Trade and Industry Minister Trevor Manuel. Reg Rumney reports LEGISLATION in terms of the Competition Act is unbelievably weak, says Trade and Industry Minister Trevor Manuel. The Competition Board has never been taken seriously as an instrument of policy, he adds. However, the Trade and Industry […]
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/ 9 December 1994
African Encounters has moved to Johannesburg from Cape Town, where it received favourable reviews. Ivor Powell takes a different stand AFRICAN Encounters, presented at MuseumAfrica in Newtown under the auspices of the paragovernmental French Institute, is one of those shows that the official representatives of the old colonial governments love to treat us to: seemingly […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Vusi Khoza and Annie Mapoma HUMAN hands — burnt to ashes and mixed with herbal ingredients — are considered an effective anti-stroke remedy by muti men who use body parts in their practice. This is according to Johannesburg muti shop owner Kessavan Naidoo, a herbalist for 30 years and close observer of traditional healing methods. […]
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/ 9 December 1994
CHILDREN’S THEATRE: Pat Sidley PLATFORM shoes are hazardous to the health at the best of times, and Janice Honeyman’s Aladdin (in China) proved the point one evening last week, when the empress fell off hers during a dance sequence. The mishap resulted in some ad libbing — and presumably a sore ankle. It was the […]
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/ 9 December 1994
Jacques Magliolo CONFUSION reigns in the diary publishing industry in the wake of a court ruling that allows diaries to be copied. The Appellate Division has ruled that designing, drawing and composing the layout of a diary does not constitute an original artistic or literary work. At the end of August, the AD dismissed publisher […]
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/ 9 December 1994
The death of a key state witness has put the spotlight on inadequacies in the protection programme, writes Nombuyiselo Maloyi A RENEWED call for a radical change in South Africa’s witness protection programme was sounded this week by Brian Currin, director general of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), days after the killing of a key […]