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/ 13 February 2000
A LIBERIAN judge has sentenced President Charles Taylor’s brother-in-law to life imprisonment for the ”road rage” murder of a taxi driver. Judge Joseph Andrews threw out a request for a retrial submitted by lawyers acting for Henrique Cassell, and handed down the life sentence late on Thursday. A 12-member jury unanimously convicted Cassell last month […]
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/ 13 February 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 6.30pm A FAST-falling rand wore down market on Friday afternoon as the currency fell to its lowest level in 17-months. Markets looked to the falling currency, paying little attention to a stellar gold price that rose $6 overnight. The all gold index ended the day one point lower at 1258, […]
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/ 12 February 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Saturday 6.00pm THE government is to destroy some 260000 surplus state-owned firearms this year with the help of funding from Norway, defence secretary January Masilela said on Saturday. This follows a decision last year by the country’s National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) not to sell firearms that were acquired by […]
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/ 12 February 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Saturday 6.00pm. THE stage is set for Nigeria to reclaim their place as the leading football power on the continent by defeating Cameroon in the African Nations Cup final on Sunday. Home advantage gives the Super Eagles a huge psychological advantage with the national team unbeaten at the 60000-seat Surulere Stadium […]
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/ 12 February 2000
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Saturday 7.00pm ECONOMIC hardships and grievances turned out to be the driving force behind most Zimbabweans turning out to cast their ballots on Saturday, the first day of a referendum to accept or reject a new constitution. It would allow the government to seize land from white commercial farmers for redistribution […]
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/ 12 February 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 3.30pm. AJ VENTER has been cleared to play for the Natal Sharks by the Pretoria High Court, which dismissed claims that the star number eight was contractually bound to Ellis Park. “I’m in heaven, I’m just so happy that I can get on with playing rugby now,” said Venter, who […]
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/ 11 February 2000
It seems to be well on the way to becoming a shrine, this room, judging by the numbers of pilgrims gathering at its iron door every day.
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/ 11 February 2000
South Africa may have as many as 20 000 Internet addicts, writes Howard Barrell Any South African company whose employees are linked to the Internet probably has at least one middle or senior manager suffering from some form of Internet addiction. And that may well be an underestimate of the problem, according to a number […]
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/ 11 February 2000
As Africans, we have a terrific talent for talking. Whether or not we have an equal talent for doing still remains to be seen.