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/ 23 October 1997
Gustav Thiel The Victoria Mxenge Housing Savings Scheme is proof that all it takes to overcome dire poverty and a pressing need for shelter is courage and dedication. When Patricia Matolengwe started the scheme in 1992 she had no idea of how far-reaching her initiative would be. Last Friday, International Day for the Eradication of […]
Sources close to the commission said it will not call Mandela to answer the allegations levelled against him by his former wife.
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/ 23 October 1997
Gustav Thiel Police admitted this week that not a single ringleader of any of the 700 crime syndicates operating in South Africa has been arrested. The South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) said the proliferation of crime syndicates since 1994 is crime fighting authorities’ biggest headache. But police admit […]
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/ 23 October 1997
Communism is dead, history over, the struggle forgotten. No better time, then, says James Buchan, to reread the finest thinker of modern times. Meet Mr Marx What goes round, they say in New York, comes round. Fewer than 10 years after Marxism was pronounced dead beyond resurrection, buried for ever in the rubble of the […]
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/ 23 October 1997
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: THE South African duo of Amanda Coetzer and Joanette Kruger advanced to the quarterfinals of the Luxembourg women’s championships in Luxembourg on Wednesday with hard fought victories over Silvia Farima and Sandrine Testud respectivly. Coetzer, who turned 26 on Tuesday, beat Farima 6-2 3-6 6-3 and Kruger hammered Testud of France 6-2 6-1. […]
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/ 23 October 1997
The Boksburg city council is trying to close the orphanage and education centre in Thabisile Msezane’s small house, reports Swapna Prabhakaran Orphaned and runaway streetchildren in Boksburg have been given something more than just a handout. They have been given the option of a better life, thanks to the hard work of Thabisile Msezane. Msezane […]
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/ 23 October 1997
lane While Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve battle for top spot in the last race of the season, Gerhard Berger will be driving his last race. Alan Henry reports Gerhard Berger’s decision to retire after this next weekend’s European Grand Prix at Jerez in Spain will be met with a mixture of sadness and relief. […]
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/ 23 October 1997
Steve Morris : Rugby The Springboks go to Europe for a five-Test tour, which starts with an outing against Italy in Bologna on November 8, with a substantially new side and rising new hopes that Springbok rugby under Nick Mallett is not the brittle entity that the series loss against the British Lions would have […]
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/ 23 October 1997
Ferial Haffajee Leading non-governmental organisations renewed calls on Media Freedom Day this week for state intervention to help media diversity. The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) complained of “government inaction” in setting up the Media Development Agency it has committed itself to. This agency is meant to fund independent media to give life to the […]
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/ 23 October 1997
Sian Stone : Style Hey, don’t send a film critic to review movies, send the fashion editor. Nicholas Cage and John Travolta were just fine in John Woo’s Face/Off. Yes, the plot is rather entertaining. But none of it is a patch on the elegant sophistication of the Donna Karan outfits. This is the movie […]