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/ 23 September 1994
Gambling’s main players revealed their hands this week, but they’ll have to wait for the referee to call the game. Stefaans Brummer reports WITH only a week left for submissions on the future of gambling, the main players are caught in a flurry of posturing and positioning to carve as large as possible a slice […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Louise Flanagan GETTING Sun king Sol Kerzner to court to face bribery and corruption charges might be more difficult than hitting the jackpot in one of the Sun International (SI) casinos. The attorney general in the former Transkei homeland, Christo Nel, has determinedly chased the SI chairman for four years and he’s not ready to […]
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/ 23 September 1994
MOSS CHIKANE, national co-ordinator of the former National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR), comes in for severe criticism in the report on NCCR activities. A former United Democratic Front activist and Delmas treason trialist, Chikane decided unilaterally, while a NCCR regional liaison officer, to take managerial and financial decisions without any consultation, […]
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/ 23 September 1994
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby Put together by its six creators for a frankly polemical purpose, Manje (“Now”) protests the harsh and sordid conditions that women in South African prisons have had to endure. If that sounds a rather daunting drawcard for an outing to the Civic Theatre, rest assured that this montage of mime, song, dialogue […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Native tongue Bafana Khumalo MOTHERS of the world, a terrible thing is about to happen to your sons, again. The Seventies are coming back! The fashion — flared jeans and high-heeled shoes for men — and the music. Those were terrible times. The best we could do for intense entertainment was to listen to some […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Wiseman Khuzwayo STOCK exchange whizzkid Greg Blank, now serving time for fraud, will be treated the same as any other prisoner, says the Department of Correctional Services. Blank began serving his eight-year sentence last Saturday after exhausting his opportunities to appeal against it. But South Africa does not have US-style special prisons for “white collar” […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Heavyweight hope: Tomorrow night is the first step in Corrie’s climb to the top BOXING: Gavin Evans FOR a boxer whose last fight but one saw him in the prone position, Cornelius Johannes Sanders sure is a lucky fellow. The former Northern Transvaal B centre has been all but guaranteed a shot at Michael Moorer’s […]
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/ 23 September 1994
AREAS ACT Drew Forrest AN inner-city housing specialist has warned that the tough official line on illegal immigrants is hampering the regeneration of South Africa’s urban slums. Carien Engelbrecht, Planact’s housing co-ordinator and former legal adviser to the South African National Civics Organisation, sees a parallel in the effects of the Group Areas Act on […]
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/ 23 September 1994
The values and popular culture of the National Peace Accord are still very much alive. It would be foolhardy and disastrous to clip its wings, argues Glenn Hollands ALTHOUGH the nation is over the hurdle of national elections, it would be irresponsible to take the existing (relative) calm for granted. In fact, any move to […]
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/ 23 September 1994
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley EVER wondered why you get off a long-haul flight feeling tired, clogged up or — worse still — carrying the start of your fellow passenger’s cold? The likely answer is not to be found in the mysteries of jet lag and circadian rhythm, but in the air you have been breathing […]