Grain SA’s beleaguered chairperson, Bully Botma, has escaped dismissal as a Maize Trust trustee — but has been barred from further meetings of the trust. This follows the disclosure that, under Botma’s care, more that R7-million of Maize Trust (used to promote farming) money was either misdirected by Grain SA or not spent.
The right-wing author of the bestselling book <i>The Great South African Land Scandal</i> — which urges resistance to land reform, branding it "an assault on South African agriculture" — holds an Internet doctoral degree from an unaccredited United States university. In some states of the US it is a criminal offence to use degrees bestowed by Pacific Western University, author Philip du Toit’s alma mater.
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/ 4 February 2004
"Who said apartheid was wrong, it was evil, it was a heresy, and it must die?"
Roelf Meyer was first appointed Minister of Constitutional Development and Provincial Affairs by President Nelson Mandela.
King Goodwill agreed to a compromise, relinguishing the ownership of mineral rights and government to the state.
Clashes over the location of the new capitals have erupted both between and within political parties.
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/ 4 February 1994
The NP has nominated two infamous Crossroads
strongmen as candidates for the Western Cape region, reports Chris Louw.
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/ 4 February 1994
Hillbrow Hospital workers are on strike but, thanks to a skeleton staff system agreed to by management and unions.