Sunday Times

LOOKING BACK

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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES 50 YEARS AGO

Hillbrow is on the eve of another big building boom. Within a few months, a R100-million building project will begin to transform this Johannesbu­rg suburb. Dr GF Jacobs, MP for Hillbrow, told me this week that some of the biggest building companies in Southern Africa had decided to sink millions in developing it into a “miniature New York”. The area has been dubbed a “den of iniquity”, but Dr Jacobs recently toured the suburbs with police officers, visiting “gambling establishm­ents”, “hippie joints”, coffee bars and places of so-called vice, and told me: “Hillbrow is in essence a respectabl­e area. Many prominent citizens live here in luxury flats.” — September 29 1968

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES 25 YEARS AGO

Following a watershed judgment by the Appellate Division this week, the South African Medical and Dental Council will investigat­e disciplina­ry action against a doctor who told two golfing friends about a patient with AIDS. The appeal court ruled that Brakpan GP Dr Matthys Kruger had wrongly breached doctor-patient confidenti­ality. After promising Barry McGeary that he would treat his HIV status in confidence, Dr Kruger informed a doctor and a dentist of his patient’s condition during a game of golf. Lawyers for Mr McGeary, who died before the case was finalised, claimed damages, saying word spread through Brakpan and the resulting stress hastened Mr McGeary’s death. — October 3 1993

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