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/ 18 June 1997

Congo peace talks begin

MP’s SISTER MURDERED The mutilated body of Letitia Lindt, sister of Pan Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille, was discovered near Kuilsriver late on Monday. De Lille said on Tuesday: “Her mutilated body was found on a farm near Wallacedene squatter camp … she is the latest victim of barbaric acts of criminals who have […]

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/ 18 June 1997

Impending easing of forex controls hits markets

WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange experienced its biggest one-day fall in 10 weeks on Tuesday, with the all share index closing 79,4 points (1,1%) down at 7 192,1 points, mainly as a result of nervousness ahead of Friday’s futures close-out. While the industrial fell slightly, shedding 49,7 points (0,59%) to close on 8 432,7, […]

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/ 18 June 1997

Masa concedes ‘complacency and racial discrimination’

TUESDAY, 4.00PM THE Medical Association of South Africa on Wednesday admitted it had closed ranks to protect doctors implicated in human rights abuses and conceded it had been complacent in opposing apartheid policies and had practised racial discrimination by allowing black and white patients to be treated separately. Presenting Masa’s submission to the Truth and […]

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/ 18 June 1997

Mugeyi takes the honours at PSL awards

WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: THE Castle Premier Soccer League awards ceremony was held in Johannesburg on Tuesday night. League leaders Manning Rangers, who were awarded R500 000 for their performance, were given a further R50 000 for being the most impoved team of the season. Umtata Bush Bucks star Wilfred Mugeyi walked away with the most honours […]

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/ 18 June 1997

SA face tough Wimbledon opposition

WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: THE Wimbledon line-up draw was announced on Tuesday, and the South African players face some tough opposition. Fragile 15-seed Wayne Ferreira will face Scott Draper in the first round. Draper recently dismissed world no-2 Michael Chang, and is in top form. If Ferreira passes the first round, he will come up against notorious […]

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/ 18 June 1997

SA loses rhino horn vote

TUESDAY, 4.00PM THE Harare summit of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species on Wednesday narrowly outvoted a South African proposal to resume trade in rhino horn. With 60 votes for the proposal and 32 against, South Africa was three votes short of the required two-thirds majority, in a show of hands vote after […]

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/ 18 June 1997

Final ivory decison delayed

WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM The crucial final decision on the status of the African elephant in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species will not be made on Wednesday, despite earlier expectations. Following overnight consultations with the three range states seeking the lifting of an international ban in ivory trade, it was agreed a 19-member working […]

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/ 18 June 1997

‘Honesty’ code for civil servants

WEDNESDAY, 8.00AM PUBLIC servants will be obliged to report cases of fraud, nepotism and maladministration by their colleagues, under a new code of conduct for civil servants, unveiled in parliament yesterday by Public Service Minister Zola Skweyiya. Skweyiya said equivalent codes in other countries like Australia, the US and Uganda had been studied, which revealed […]

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/ 18 June 1997

Koroma swears himself in as Sierra Leone president

WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM SIERRA Leonean coup leader Major Johnny Paul Koroma on Tuesday installed himself as the country’s president, and pladged to work towards national reconciliation and the eventual restoration of democracy. “We are committed to bringing this country to lasting peace and then eventually to returning the country to a democratically elected government,” Koroma said […]

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/ 18 June 1997

Gencor tightens grip on world nickel market

WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM GENCOR is on the verge of increasing its share of world nickel production through a partnership deal with Australian producer Queensland Nickel. If the deal goes through, it will result in the formation of the third largest nickel producer in the world with an annual output of between 50 000 and 60 000 […]

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/ 18 June 1997

Dispensing fee ‘will cut drug costs’

WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM FOLLOWING the outcry by the medical aid industry about a proposed dispensing fee to be charged by pharmacists, United SA Pharmacies, which represents half of SA’s pharmacists, on Tuesday announced that from July 28, most of SA’s 1 750 pharmacies will sell prescription medicines on a cost plus R17,10 flat fee basis. Responding […]

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/ 18 June 1997

Lions eat junior mincemeat

WEDNESDAY, 1.45PM: THE British Lions made mincemeat of the Emerging Springboks on Tuesday, beating them 51-22 in Wellington. But Lions coach Ian McGeechan was still not impressed with his team. He said there was a spell when they looked “bloody awful” and that they were showed up at times by the good rugby played by […]

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/ 17 June 1997

Dispensing fee causes furore

TUESDAY, 12.00NOON AT least half of SA’s pharmacies, represented by United SA Pharmaceuticals, have precipitated a furore by announcing they will introduce a R20,90 dispensing fee, raising the ire of medical aid schemes, who believe the move will lead to a 17% increase in average medicine costs, and lead to patients paying cash for prescription […]

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/ 17 June 1997

AWB leader gets six years

TUESDAY, 4.00PM AFRIKANER Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche was on Tuesday sentenced in the Potchefstroom Regional Court to an effective six years in jail for attempted murder and assault. Terre’Blanche was last month found guilty of attempted murder after he knocked down an employee, Paul Motsibi, and beat him with a pipe in March 1996, apparently […]

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/ 17 June 1997

Chiefs consider tour options

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: KAIZER CHIEFS management is having a rethink about Amakhosi’s participation in the African Caf Cup competition, and whether to go ahead with a planned tour of China in the last week of June. Chiefs’ coach Jeff Butler and the club directors will meet on Tuesday to discuss how financially viable it will be […]

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/ 17 June 1997

Mattheus clears his name

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SMILING widely for the last five kilometres, it was victory at last for Charl Mattheus who won the down-run Comrades Marathon yesterday, with a time of 5 hours, 28minutes and 37 seconds. The last time Mattheus broke the tape at the finish line was on the up-run in 1992, when he was disqualified […]

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/ 17 June 1997

Dutch hunt SA hockey talent

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: SIX South African hockey players who played in the four-nations trophy tournament against England in Amsterdam on Sunday have been approached by Dutch club recruiters this week. Top Dutch clubs Bloemendall and HGC — currently the European champions — have shown interest in SA’s Greg Clark and top goalscorer Greg Nicol. SCHS Eindhoven […]

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/ 17 June 1997

11th-hour ivory compromise tabled

TUESDAY, 4.00PM SOUTHERN African nations calling for a lifting of the ban on the ivory trade at the summit of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Harare have tabled a last-minute compromise proposal in which Western donors will buy out all national ivory stockpiles to fund elephant conservation in Africa. South African […]

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/ 17 June 1997

Volkswagen to push local car output to 100 000

TUESDAY, 1.30PM VOLKSWAGEN, the largest car builder in Europe, intends to increase output from its SA factory to 100 000 cars a year, from last year’s 67 5000, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday. Quoting VW management board member Peter Hartz, Die Welt said VW’s SA plant plans to return to profit next year. […]

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/ 17 June 1997

Asbestos researched suppressed

TUESDAY, 4.30PM The special Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing into the role of the medical profession in apartheid human rights abuses on Tuesday heard that asbestos mining companies suppressed the findings of scientific research in the 1960s into the health risks of exposure to asbestos. The claim was made as part of the submission by […]

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/ 17 June 1997

June 16 chaos at PAC rally

TUESDAY, 8.00AM THE Pan Africanist Congress cancelled its June 16 commemorative rally in Khayelitsha, Cape Town yesterday, after two rival factions of the party came to blows. Supporters of axed PAC president Clarence Makwetu refused to allow deputy secretary general Ike mafole to speak, on the grounds that he had not been elected constitutionally. In […]

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/ 17 June 1997

ILO condemns four African states

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: THE International Labour Organisation in Geneva has found four African countries — Nigeria, Swaziland and Morocco and Sudan — guilty of violating trade union and freedom of association rights. A formal motion of condemnation will be passed at the ILO’s annual conference on Thursday this week. Swaziland has been singled out for suspending […]

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/ 17 June 1997

Doctor apologoses to Biko’s family

MONDAY, 4.30PM STEVE Biko’s widow Ntsiki and brother Khaya listened impassively on Tuesday as a doctor apologised to them for the failure of his colleagues to treat the activist’s head injuries before his death in police custody in 1977. Presenting to a special truth commission hearing on the medical profession’s role in apartheid human rights […]

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/ 16 June 1997

Mhanayale offers to quit NSB

MONDAY, 10.30AM MOHALE MAHANYELE, executive chairman of the troubled National Sorgum Breweries, has offered to quit after weekend press reports accusing him of extravagant spending. An auditor’s report leaked to the press reveals that he spent R168 736 on cellphone expenses, R277 131 on his company credit card and R231 256 on “other expenses”. It […]

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/ 16 June 1997

SA finance experts fly to Kinshasa

MONDAY, 8.30AM A TEAM of South African financial experts, including representatives from the Reserve Bank, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Development Bank, and foreign affairs, will fly to Congo-Kinshasa this week as the first part of a South African aid package to the new government. Deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad said: “The new […]

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/ 16 June 1997

Anti-crime ‘spy’ cameras for Jo’burg

MONDAY, 8.30AM BUSINESS leaders have come to an agreement with Johannesburg’s city council that closed circuit television cameras will be installed on streets throughout the central business district by the end of the year. Central Johannesburg partnership director Neil Frazer announced that a team had visited Britian to study the impact of such cameras, and […]

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/ 16 June 1997

Padi batters Mbatha

MONDAY, 11.00AM: PETRUS PADI narrowly beat George Mbatha by a unanimous judges points decision in their catchweight fight at Orange Farm on Saturday. The judges awarded Padi two more points on average than his opponent, in a closely contested game. Mbatha’s disappointed manager, Jeff Ellis, said it was only through Padi’s suberb fitness that he […]

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/ 16 June 1997

Lions prey on Sharks

MONDAY, 12.00NOON: THE British Lions beat Currie Cup titleholders and Super 12 quarterfinalists Natal Sharks 42-12 in their match on Saturday in Durban. Natal wouldn’t have had a chance if not for the numerous penalty opportunities presented by the Lions, although Lions’ Neil Jenkins got to kick in six penalties as well. It was a […]

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/ 16 June 1997

‘Unita mobilising in north of Angola ‘

MONDAY, 2.30PM ANGOLAN state radio on Sunday accused former rebel movement Unita of mobilising troops in the northern province of Uige, in the region of renewed fighting that is threatening the country’s fragile peace. The radio quoted vice-governor of defence in the province, Fernando Jose Kenge, as saying heavily armed Unita troops had been seen […]