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/ 16 June 1997

Army bags its assets

JUNE 16 YOUTH DAY IN commemoration of the thousands of children who died in the struggle against apartheid education which came to a head in the Soweto uprising of June 16 1976, today is celebrated as the Youth Day public holiday in South Africa. ANOTHER NAT JUMPS ANOTHER senior member of the National Party has […]

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/ 16 June 1997

TRC warns 24 doctors

MONDAY, 1.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission has warned 24 medical doctors that they may be implicated in gross human rights abuses at its two-day hearing this week on the medical profession’s role in supporting apartheid. The doctors are named in a 200-page submission to be presented to the commission by the Health and Human […]

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/ 16 June 1997

Drug giant dumps Aids guinea pigs

MONDAY, 11.00AM MORE than 150 South African Aids patients were enticed into a drug testing programme run by Swiss pharmaceutical multinational Roche after Johannesburg Aids experts falsely claimed they would receive free drugs for life. The patients entered an 80-week programme run with Wits University and Johannesburg Hospital which dramatically halted deterioration in their conditions, […]

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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

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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/ 13 June 1997

Refugee dies at Home Affairs

Marion Edmunds A MURDER docket has been opened by the police after a Burundian refugee died on the floor of a Home Affairs Department office in Cape Town half-an-hour after two policemen dumped him there. According to witnesses, Jean-Pierre Kanyangwa was brought in early Monday afternoon, June 2, by policemen who had picked him up […]

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/ 13 June 1997

JCI chief is not the NUM’s comrade

Appealing to JCI’s Mzi Khumalo has not helped the NUM in negotiating retrenchments with the mining house, writes Ferial Haffajee `WE expected more heart from someone like Mzi; it was a heartless decision,” says the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) deputy general secretary Gwede Mantashe of Mzi Khumalo, JCI’s new chair. JCI has decided it […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Kaya takes on Metro

Ferial Haffajee and Maria McCloy on Radio Metro NO announcements were made, but it’s not like people didn’t notice that one of Radio Metro’s stalwart DJs, and the presenter of Bush Telegraph, Lawrence Dube, wasn’t there anymore. Dube was hauled off air in May when the radio consortium of which he was a shareholder won […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Dance for all

Bongani Ndodana BRIGHTLY COLOURED tights and tutus worn by children grinning like Cheshire cats seem almost surreal in the dusty streets and squalor of the Cape Flats, where the Cape Town City Ballet (CTCB) have established their Dance for All project. It’s at moments like these that one truly realises the original meaning of those […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Kitaj’s killer-critics

Dan Glaister in London AS a form of revenge, it is both expansive and expensive. Sandra Three, by RB Kitaj, occupies an entire wall of the Royal Academy’s normally sedate Summer Show and carries a price tag of 1-million. The piece is the third instalment in Kitaj’s aim to exact revenge on the critics he […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Schoolboys clean up their community’s

act Busi Moloele NEXT time you’re in Witbank, look carefully between the giant forms of the iron-smelting factory, the electricity power-stations and the gangling steel factory. There, huddled in a space named Kwaguqa, you are likely meet an intrepid band of environmentalists who are trying to make a difference. In 1994, a group of standard […]

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/ 13 June 1997

June 16: The struggle turns 21

ANDREW WORSDALE previews a moving new radio documentary commemorating Youth Day A MASTERFUL radio documentary, The Story of June 16th , begins with a police loudhailer: “This gathering under section 48 of the Internal Security Act is defined as a riotous gathering and you are all ordered to disperse.” With the sound of gunfire laid […]

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/ 13 June 1997

A ticket to ride

Matthew Krouse JUST THE TICKET! by Percy Tucker (Jonathan Ball, R94,95) IT has been a year of commemoration in theatre publishing, with retrospection and introspection from diverse quarters. Perhaps part of what triggered this small spate of nostalgia were the deaths of two industry giants – Barney Simon and Leonard Schach. Simon’s story, along with […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Metal wage dispute

FRIDAY, 11.30AM FIVE labour unions on Thursday declared a dispute with metal industry employers after the third round of industry negotiations deadlocked. The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation said its final offer of between 8% and 8,5% was rejected. The unions demanded between 13% and 23%.The National Union of Metalworkers of SA, the National Employees’ […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Exports keep manufacturing on the boil

FRIDAY, 11.000AM WITH domestic demand cooling as the economy slows, manufacturing is saving the day, with export production driving output to a record high in April, according to latest Central Statistical Service figures. Manufacturing output in SA increased 12% from March to April, campared to 7,6% over the same period last year, and comes after […]

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/ 13 June 1997

King prawn rules in a poison sea

Environmentalists describe seafood farming in Asia as a rape-and-run industry, writes Suzanne Goldenberg in Keyakhali, Bangladesh THEY saw the enforcers coming from a distance – 50 men cycling along the embankment, iron bars and home-made petrol bombs glinting under a bright afternoon sky. As the villagers cowered in their homes, the intruders hacked at the […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Gauteng official stole R8m from housing

fund Mungo Soggot A TOP official in Gauteng’s Housing Department has confessed to stealing more than R8-million from the province’s low-cost housing kitty. Senior accountant Louis Botha handled the province’s disbursements from the National Housing Fund – the central reservoir of funds for the government’s low-cost housing drive. But lax controls within the provincial department […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Kxoe receive a ‘royal’ ousting

Ruaridh Nicoll in Mutjiku, Western Caprivi, Namibia THE Kxoe, an 8 000-strong section of Southern Africa’s Bushman community, are being squeezed out of their lands in Namibia’s Caprivi Strip by the regal aspirations of a neighbouring tribal leader. Erwin Mbambo, chief of the Mbukushu people, has given land belonging to the Kxoe to the Namibian […]

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/ 13 June 1997

False hope for guinea-pig Aids patients

South African Aids patients who took part in drug trials have been dumped by the company that used them. Ruaridh Nicoll and Mungo Soggot report MORE than 150 Aids patients in South Africa were encouraged into a drug-testing programme run by the Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche after Johannesburg Aids experts falsely claimed they would be […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Gear under threat

Amid all Cosatu’s and business’s bluster lies a danger that the central tenet of Gear – job creation – will be ignored, writes Madeleine Wackernagel BUSINESS has until Monday to respond to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), which threatened continued mass action unless business accedes to its demands over the Basic Conditions […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Win a Fiat Uno with eM&G

THE Electronic Mail & Guardian’s daily online version of Madam & Eve allows you to win a Fiat Uno car in an online competition. Join the Madam & Eve “cyber club” to receive the Madam & Eve electronic newsletter; send free Madam & Eve “cybercards” to friends around the world; and browse through a collection […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Sarfu upholds drug bans

FRIDAY, 11.00AM: APPEALS against their doping sentences by banned rugby players Johan Ackerman, of Northern Tranvaal, and Bennie Nortje and Stefan Bronkhorst of Gauteng, were rejected on Thursday by the South African Rugby Football Union. The players have been sentenced with a two-year banning after testing positive for illegal substances earlier this season. Sarfu CE […]

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/ 13 June 1997

702’s Night of the Long Knives

Dan Moyane is the biggest casualty of 702’s ‘repositioning strategy’, reports Hazel Friedman DAN MOYANE, the Radio 702 morning chat-show host who was suddenly taken off the air last week, did not jump. He was dumped. And in terms of a restraint agreement, he may be off the air for the next year. The agreement, […]

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/ 13 June 1997

SUPPLEMENT: Youth Day Feature

The fountain of youth that doesn’t run dry with age In South Africa, the definition of youth could fall anywhere between birth and mid- 30s. Maria McCloy considers how the lines have been blurred in today’s society YOUTH, /ju:q/ n. (pl.youths/ju:qz/) 1. the state of being young; the period between childhood and adult age. 2. […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Five cheers: Madam & Eve turns five

MADAM & EVE, South Africa’s most successful comic strip ever, celebrates its fifth anniversary this week. The strip was first published in The Weekly Mail. Madam (a Johannesburg northern-suburbanite) and Eve (her “domestic maintenance assistant”) have won the hearts of millions as they journey through the rocky landscape of the new South Africa while keeping […]

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/ 13 June 1997

New index for old problems

Madeleine Wackernagel The United Nations Human Development Report 1997, released this week, highlights the importance of integrating poverty reduction into economic policies. Only those countries that make “poverty eradication a central objective of their national development policies” will achieve steady and equitable growth in the next century. “The positive and negative experiences over the past […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Naspers wraps up City Press sale

FRIDAY, 11.30AM MEDIA group Nasionale Pers on Thursday announced it had finalised a R110-million deal for the sale of its City Press Sunday newspaper to City Press Media, a newly formed company 40% owned by three black investment groups. Naspers chairman Ton Vosloo said City Press “has the potential to become the first newspaper in […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Youngsters need a skills revolution

Although the youths of today are receiving an education, they are now battling to find job opportunities. Stuart Hess reports MORE than 40% of young South Africans are neither employed nor in school, according to a study conducted by the National Youth Commission. This alarming figure, which applies to young people aged 14 to 35, […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Virodene link to ‘deep freeze’

THERE is a local link to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation – researcher Olga Visser, who recently announced she had a treatment for Aids, has received funding from the organisation for her work in the field of cryonics. Visser and other researchers based at the University of Pretoria last year demonstrated their research at Alcor, […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Youths club together to tackle tasks

The South African Association of Youth Clubs is changing direction again – this time it aims to motivate young people to take charge of their lives. Busi Moloele reports ‘NO, I definitely don’t agree with the label ‘the lost generation’,” says Mokoka Seshabela. “Many young people are on the margins of society – they are […]

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/ 13 June 1997

Chiluba tips scales in his favour

Anthony Kunda ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has more than doubled the salaries of his Supreme Court judges, prompting accusations that he is attempting to influence the outcome of the legal challenge to his re-election. The increases – the second in nine months – push the salary for Zambia’s chief justice from R416 000 to just […]