Looking Back

From the Sunday Times 50 years ago

A KRUGER Sovereign found at the bottom of a 13ft.deep mystery hole started a treasure hunt on the site of Johannesburg’s new Civic Centre yesterday.

Last night, employees of the excavation company, directed by the managing director, Mr. Mannie Goldberg, were still digging away to remove a false bottom.

“Who knows what is underneath? It could be the Kruger millions,” said Mr. Goldberg hopefully.

Mr. Goldberg rushed to the site soon after he was phoned the news of the discovery. He has not been home since the Kruger Sovereign was found at 10am. — April 9 1967

From the Sunday Times 25 years ago

SUNDAY movies have been given the nod by the government —10 days after Nu Metro was ordered to halt its Sunday shows at N1 City following a “single” complaint to police. Nu Metro and SterKinekor have announced that they will begin legal Sunday screenings from today at several cinemas throughout the Peninsula and at selected movie houses in Johannesburg and Durban. But the announcement by Justice Minister Mr Kobie Coetsee takes the strict Sabbath observance laws into account by including a proviso that cinemas could show films on Sundays between noon and 5pm and from 8.15pm, to ensure that they did not interfere with church services. — April 5 1992