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/ 12 September 1997
Tourists are flocking to the Bolivian countryside where the charismatic revolutionary died. Anthony Faiola reports See the very place where legendary guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara lived and died! Trudge through the mud-covered hillside he himself once climbed! Talk to the peasants who fed and clothed him and his hapless band of communists! And dont miss […]
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/ 12 September 1997
Mama has been exiled to the Transkei, but one night she wakes and exclaims, Hes dead! She means the Old President, and this is her chance to seize power. Astory by Achmat Dangor, from his new book Mama had them shot in the afternoon. They were lined up facing westwards, so that the only blindfold […]
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/ 12 September 1997
FRIDAY, 4.00PM THE Southern African Development Community will hold a summit in Angola on September 30 to formulate a regional approach to possible United Nations sanctions against Jonas Savimbi’s Unita rebel movement, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Friday. The UN has threatened to impose far-reaching sanctions against Unita by the end of […]
The committee formed in 1989 to deal with the growing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela scandal wrote a desperate letter to Oliver Tambo.
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/ 12 September 1997
Sechaba kaNkosi National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) heavyweights met their counterparts in the African National Congress this week to discuss the nomination of their general secretary, Kgalema Motlanthe, for the post of ANC secretary general, the most powerful political position in the country outside Parliament. Until now, most political and labour analysts have viewed Motlanthe […]
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/ 12 September 1997
Shenanigans and infighting in the provinces have led the ANC to consider restructuring regional government. Marion Edmunds reports The African National Congress in central government is increasingly worried about the ability of its comrades in the provinces to deliver. So much so that strategic thinkers in the higher ranks are starting to think that the […]
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/ 11 September 1997
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: The gloomy sentiment that his beset local markets this week continued on Wednesday as weak international markets added to the general gloom to push major indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange lower. Turnover, at R1-billion was higher than it has been this week and producer inflation figures released on Tuesday were positive, but […]
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/ 11 September 1997
THE European Union responded almost immediately to Parliament’s demand for clarification of a controversial clause before ratifying SA’s qualified accession to the Lomé Convention. Parliament last week refused to ratify the accession because of concern about the meaning of the term ad hoc as applied to input credits for products made in SA’s Africa-Caribbean-Pacific neighbours, […]
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/ 11 September 1997
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: WHEN Bafana Bafana take on France in a friendly match in Lens on October 11, Ajax Amsterdam’s striker Benedict “Cellular” McCarthy is likely to spearhead the national soccer team’s attack. National coach Clive Barker said he will be pinning his hopes on the youngster to score the winning goals. “He is brilliant and […]
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/ 11 September 1997
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: NORTHERN Transvaal rugby selectors have named an unchanged squad to face Eastern Province in a Bankfin Currie Cup match at Loftus Versveld Stadium on Friday night. Injured hooker Jannie Brooks and Springbok tighthead Marius Hurter have been rested. NORTHERN TRANSVAAL SQUAD: Thys Potgieter; Archer Dames, Grant Esterhuizen, Johan Schutte, Casper Steyn; Roland de […]