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/ 12 September 1997

Begging for the mercy they never gave

Biko Steve Bikos tormentors protest their innocence, but if that is true they need not have applied for amnesty, argues Lizeka Mda Steve Bikos torturers came to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions amnesty hearing in Port Elizabeth to persuade the gathering they had come to finally tell the true facts about the circumstances in which […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Army base on old asbestos mine

contaminated. Andy Duffy The base created for 32 Battalion, the notorious army unit that fought on the frontline of South Africas dirty wars in Angola and Namibia, is to be closed amid fears that it is a potential death trap. The army said this week that Pomfret military base, home to nearly 5 000 soldiers […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Hoddle stands on edge of greatness

Paul Hayward : Soccer David Beckham is a 22-year-old millionaire with a Spice Girl on his arm and a Porsche in the garage. Talk to him about Glenn Hoddle, though, and he still sounds like a youth training scheme trainee with a line of mucky boots to scrub. The first time I came to the […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Komen going for all-time honours

Duncan Mackay : Athletics In distance running it takes a lot to impress a Kenyan, especially if that Kenyan happens to be Moses Kiptanui, acknowledged as one of the best athletes to come out of Africa. The most articulate and thoughtful of men, Kiptanui is not given to hyperbole, but when recently asked to rate […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Highs and lows of coaching

Carel Du Plessis Steve Morris : Rugby The demise of Carel du Plessis as national coach marks more than just the relegation of a moral and well-intentioned man to the relative obscurity he suddenly arrived from, it leaves the man who steps into the hottest seat in world rugby a task that is unenviable by […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Omar plugs justice brain drain

Mungo Soggot Justice Minister Dullah Omar has blocked attempts by hundreds of his long-serving officials to take voluntary retrenchment. His ministry confirmed this week that 742 of its 13 400 workforce had applied for retrenchment packages, but only 43 had succeeded. Omar, who has been accused of gunning for white justice employees, told the Mail […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Bloody prelude to Kenyan elections

Locals are fleeing the district of Likoni after recent massacres, and the promise of more to follow. Chris McGreal reports from Mombasa, Kenya If the Kenyan government is to be believed, a group of marauding drug addicts and drunks has raided a police station, driven 100 000 people from their homes and throttled foreign tourism […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Calls for private policing

The security industry is pressing for some policing powers, writes Ann Eveleth The burgeoning private security industry which employs about one in every 200 South Africans, many former police officers and paramilitary members wants the government to give its members arrest and search-and- seizure powers. It also wants the power to demand a name and […]

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/ 12 September 1997

Kluever calls for housing probe

Justin Arenstein Auditor General Henri Kluever has called for a full-scale commission of enquiry to establish whether relatives or close friends of Minister of Housing Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele may have improperly benefited from the contentious R198-million Motheo Construction housing scheme in Mpumalanga. The special report, leaked to the Mail & Guardian this week, is a litany […]