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/ 15 September 1997

Winnie prosecution “if body can be found”

TUESDAY, 9.00AM POLICE commissioner George Fivaz said on Monday that the Witwatersrand attorney-general has indicated he will institute criminal proceedings against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and her “football team” for the murder of Lolo Sono if the young man’s body can be found. Sono was a member of the Mandela United Football Team, a gang of township […]

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/ 15 September 1997

UN gives Kabila 48 hours

MONDAY, 4.30PM THE United Nations team sent to investigate the alleged mass slaughter of Rwandan Hutu refugees in the former Zaire has given the new regime two days to allow it to begin work, the mission said on Monday. The team has told President Laurent Kabila’s government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Strangers in G-strings

Downtown Johannesburg and the makeshift studio on the third floor of the Carlton Hotel teems with squirming bodies. I am still getting used to the idea of hanging out in a room full of strangers wearing nothing but g-strings and layers of paint. But, even through the flesh and billowing smoke and visibly frayed nerves, […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Kluever recommends Motheo probe

FRIDAY, 4.00PM AUDITOR-general Henri Kluever has called for a full-scale commission of enquiry to establish whether relatives or close friends of Housing Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele improperly benefited from the Motheo housing project in Mpumalanga. An inquiry is one of the recommendations contained in a report on the auditor-general’s special investigation into the project which is […]

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/ 12 September 1997

State plans to rein in moonlighting

doctors Mungo Soggot The Department of Health is locked in dispute with South Africas top academic medics over controversial plans to ban public health service doctors from doing private work The department has tabled its plan with the Public Service Bargaining Chamber and held its latest round of talks with medical profession representatives this week. […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Merchandising Di

Companies have been quick to cash in on the demand for Princess Diana memorabilia, ranging from china to T-shirts, writes James T Madore Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe long have topped lists of departed celebrities with high sales of collectibles. But they will be eclipsed by Diana, the Princess of Wales, for at least the […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Two countries make for one tough tour

Pat McDermott : Cricket South Africa faces the prospect of a Christmas and New Year with the national side away from home for the first time since our readmittance to the world game. It is a bleak prospect, fraught with the realities of television coverage from the sub-continent for the series against Pakistan and early-morning […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Nepotism in North West

Controversial MEC proves too much for one of her top officials, writes Andy Duffy The head of education in the North West province has quit his post in protest against alleged nepotism by the provincial education MEC, who handed out plum jobs to members of her family. Gulam-Husien Mayet quietly stepped down as provincial education […]

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/ 12 September 1997

NGK still not really sorry for apartheid

Gustav Thiel The Nederduitse Gerefor-meerde Kerk (NGK) , once again under pressure from its world body to repudiate apartheid, continues to find biblical justification for the separation of races. Although the NGK apologised in 1990 at its annual synod for as its moderator Doctor Freek Swanepoel puts it those who were hurt by apartheid and […]