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/ 23 October 1997

TRC’s Chris de Jager voted to bar blacks

Mungo Soggot The Truth and Reconciliation Commission will be in the unnerving position next week of having to delve into the exploits of one of its commissioners at hearings into the legal profession under apartheid. Chris de Jager, a Pretoria advocate, and now a member of the commission’s amnesty committee, voted against allowing blacks to […]

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/ 23 October 1997

A theatre for Soweto

Peter Makurube Steve Biko, the action man of black consciousness, inspired a whole generation of strong, intelligent people who are now giving much to the development of the country. Playwright Matsemela Manaka is one of them, a tireless worker in the townships, where the brain-drain has left a huge gap in the community. He toils […]

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/ 23 October 1997

Spiced with Girl Power

The Spice Girls will do a brief spot at the Two Nations concert in Johannesburg on November 1. Kathy Acker wondered about their brand of femininism Fifty-second Street. West Side, New York City. Hell’s Kitchen – one of those areas into which no one would once have walked unless loaded. Guns or drugs or both. […]

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/ 23 October 1997

Bitter feud of the ice divas

Sonja Springs : Ice-skating They haven’t hired a hit man in the Nancy- Tonya fashion as yet, but if looks could kill the two Olympic skating champions Oksana Grishuk and Oksana Baiul would have buried each other by now – at least 10 feet under. Their mutual animosity has reached the stage where Grishuk says […]

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/ 23 October 1997

Black navy recruitment at sea

Marion Edmunds The South African navy’s affirmative action drive is faltering, partly because black recruits resist going to sea, reject naval traditions and would prefer desk jobs in Gauteng to be close to their families. In a report to the parliamentary integration oversight committee, which monitors the transformation of the South African National Defence Force […]

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/ 23 October 1997

Even monopolies have to obey the rules

Madeleine Wackernagel : TAKING STOCK The state telecommunications monopoly could be forgiven for feeling victimised: in the space of only one week it is rapped over the knuckles for not following the correct procedures on a tariff hike and loses its bid to have sole control over the Internet. Never the most popular parastatal – […]

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/ 23 October 1997

Now is the time – if the rain allows

V Roger Prabasarkar : Cricket Like two over-hyped American heavyweight boxers, South Africa and Pakistan snarled and threatened in all the right places and at all the right times before the current Test series began. Now it is as though someone farted at a particularly tense moment during the pre-fight press conference and both fighters, […]

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/ 23 October 1997

PAC’s De Lille names ‘spies’

THURSDAY, 8.30AM PAN Africanist Congress MP Patricia De Lille made an astonishing intervention in a debate on ‘spies’ by naming seven leading ANC figures as “spies”. She claimed that they were on a list of 12 alleged apartheid-era spies, which had been handed to President Nelson Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. De Lille’s intervention […]

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/ 23 October 1997

Altyd die selfde verdomde Engelse

brekfis* Madeleine Roux : Moveable feast No South African experience is quite complete without a heartburn produced by your average guest-house breakfast. The table groans under the weight of leftovers from the British Empire, complete with dismal cut-glass bowls and tacky cruets. Not only are we stuck with this terrible language as a legacy of […]

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/ 23 October 1997

Egoli gets an African vibe

South African soaps are being Africanised and upgraded to win international markets, reports Paul Martin in Cannes In a bid to make their South African products more saleable worldwide, the producers and distributors of the long- running Egoli and a new soap series, Blue Diamond, are deliberately bolstering and upgrading their African characters. The series’s […]