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?"
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.
Roelf Meyer was first appointed Minister of Constitutional Development and Provincial Affairs by President Nelson Mandela.
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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.