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/ 4 May 2001

Our first ‘white African’ poet

Stephen Gray pays tribute to poet Guy Butler, who died last week aged 83 The death of Guy Butler on 26 April in Grahamstown was not unexpected. He had been monitoring a leaky heart valve since the early 1980s, when he bowed out as professor of English at Rhodes University. Yet he enjoyed a productive […]

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/ 23 March 2001

On the verge of corporate nirvana

#David McKay Brian Gilbertson, chair of Billiton, collects clocks. Isn’t that odd as well as intriguing? Odd because Gilbertson is renowned in mining circles for the more outward shows of his material success: the ostentatious commuting to and from his Johannesburg office by helicopter, the Porsche apparently permanently on display in an underground bay at […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Mozambique’s downward spiral

Some fear that Carlos Cardoso’s murder might never be fully investigated as ‘many more crimes’ would be uncovered Rehad Desai It has been more than three months since the assassination of Mozambique’s leading investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso. Last week the minister of police announced he had captured the hit men responsible. The announcement was followed […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Plan to empower the poor

Jaspreet Kindra The Black Economic Empowerment Commission’s final report, which was released last weekend, is intent on uplifting the majority of South Africans rather than building a black bourgeoisie. Commission chair Cyril Rama-phosa said a broader definition of black empowerment was accepted by the African National Congress’s economic transformation committee two weeks ago. The new […]

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/ 23 March 2001

SA needs laws on human trafficking

Roshila Pillay The government has yet to formulate and implement legislation to prevent the trafficking of women and children, despite being a signatory to a United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime, which includes a protocol on trafficking in people. South Africa first ratified a UN convention in trafficking and prostitution in 1951. This week […]

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/ 23 March 2001

KZN chiefs to offer Sahib a home

Fiona Macleod Tribal chiefs in charge of a private game reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal are determined to save Sahib, the mighty African elephant bull stranded in exile in a German circus. The chiefs came forward this week to offer Sahib sanctuary in their community-run reserve, after Northern Province conservation officials rejected the Mayibuye Sahib project […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Now Mrs Heystek is giving wealth tips

After turning her ex-husband into a household name, Anne Heystek is hoping to become South Africa’s latest wealth creator Bruce Whitfield Global markets are a testing place even for the most resilient fund managers. Scores are losing money hand over fist and are struggling to maintain their portfolios. Despite the difficulties faced by the investment […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Let’s get carried away

Andy Capostagno rugby There are a number of truisms that are regularly trotted out when the Super 12 is in progress. There is no such thing as an easy game, beware the team that can win away from home, it’s about peaking in May and not in March, don’t get carried away with home wins. […]

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/ 23 March 2001

South Africa’s devilish shadow

Bryan Rostron The devil continues to have a fine run in South Africa. Hansie Cronje, by his own admission, accepted Satan’s silver. When that cheesy old horror film The Exorcist was recently rereleased, earnest churchmen begged us not to watch in case we were lured by the celluloid wiles of Beelzebub. Two weeks ago in […]