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/ 15 July 2020

It’s just not cricket

Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?

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/ 9 November 2004

Back to Italy for Palazzolo prosecutors

Italian prosecutors are hoping that a former South African police officer now in a psychiatric clinic may be able to testify in Italy at alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo’s trial in absentia. The police officer, Abraham Smith, broke down last week when he took the stand.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125190">Count Agusta link probed</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125163">Failed bid to charge Palazzolo</a>

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/ 8 November 2004

Count Agusta link probed in Palazzolo hearing

An Italian prosecutor on Monday sought to probe the link between alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo and Count Riccardo Agusta, who achieved notoriety in the Roodefontein saga. The Cape Town Magistrate’s Court is hearing evidence for Palazzolo’s trial in absentia in Italy.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125163">Failed bid to charge Palazzolo</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125147">Stressed policeman unfit to testify</a>

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/ 3 November 2004

Palazzolo: Attorney linked to W Cape Mafia

A top police officer said on Wednesday he stands by a document in which he listed Cape Town attorney Harry Snitcher as part of the Mafia’s organisation in the Western Cape. Captain Piet Viljoen was testifying in proceedings in which Italian prosecutors are questioning witnesses on the affairs of alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124881">Palazzolo linked to Staggie</a>

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/ 27 October 2004

Thatcher: E Guinea on ‘fishing expedition’

Equatorial Guinea authorities are being given a chance to go on a fishing expedition by questioning Mark Thatcher, a Cape High Court judge said on Wednesday. Thatcher is hoping to overturn a subpoena ordering him to answer questions on an alleged coup bid in Equatorial Guinea.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124471">Tough questions in Thatcher case</a>

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/ 13 October 2004

State shows link between Shaik, Zuma

State prosecutor Billy Downer made a slide presentation to the Durban High Court on Wednesday showing the link between Schabir Shaik and Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123676">NPA believes Woods may testify</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123640">MPs need OK for Shaik trial</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123605">’What was Mbeki’s role in arms deal?'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123595">TV station loses bid to film Shaik trial</a>

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/ 1 June 2004

Pharmacies close in protest of new laws

Dozens of pharmacies in Johannesburg and Cape Town closed their doors for three hours on Tuesday as pharmacists took part in a staged protested against new medicine legislation. Meanwhile, the laws were contested in courts in Pretoria and the Mother City.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=67187">Manto ‘acted beyond her powers'</a>

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/ 18 May 2004

Tahrs may be headed back to court

The thorny issue of the Table Mountain tahrs may be headed for court again following a threat by the National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) to seek an urgent interdict. NSPCA executive director Marcelle Meredith labelled South African National Parks’ decision to cull the goat-like creatures "maverick slaughter".
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=66496">Tahrs to die a ‘slow death'</a>

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/ 8 April 2004

‘Transkei won’t be 10th province’

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday rejected calls for the Transkei to become South Africa’s 10th province. He was speaking to several thousand African National Congress supporters at a pre-election imbizo at the Great Place of Pondo King Mpondombini Sigcawu near Lusikisiki.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>

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/ 4 April 2004

Holomisa: Mbeki is still an Aids dissident

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>President Thabo Mbeki is still an Aids dissident, United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa told about 25 000 cheering supporters at a party rally in Umtata on Saturday. The gathering, in the UDM’s heartland, was billed as the major rally of the UDM’s election campaign.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>

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/ 3 April 2004

Mbeki chooses the floor

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>When President Thabo Mbeki entered the crowded lounge of the Xhola home in Despatch’s Khayamandi on Friday, an elderly man rose to offer his chair. But the president didn’t take it. "[Mbeki] said he is younger than that old man and he said he would go sit there on the floor," said the household matriarch afterwards.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>

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/ 1 April 2004

‘ANC opposers hamper its efforts’

Parties that campaign only to oppose the African National Congress are also opposing its efforts to deal with poverty and unemployment, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. He was speaking to Rharhabe King Maxhoba Sandile and chiefs and counsellors at the Mngqesha Great Place north of King William’s Town.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=33497">A cow and an ox for Mbeki</a>

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/ 30 March 2004

Widows reject Nieuwoudt apology

The widows of three of the men killed in the 1989 Motherwell car bombing have rejected Tuesday’s apology by former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt. Nieuwoudt, who triggered the bomb, tendered the apology in the rehearing in Port Elizabeth of his application for amnesty for the deed.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=33382">Nieuwoudt to face Hefer interrogator</a>

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