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/ 17 October 2001
Pretoria | Wednesday THE Pretoria High Court on Wednesday partially turned down an application by former national cricket captain Hansie Cronje to overturn a life ban imposed on him by the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA). The UCBSA imposed the ban on Cronje in November last year after his involvement in matchfixing surfaced. […]
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/ 17 October 2001
ALGERIAN President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, accompanied by a ministerial and business delegation, will arrive in Cape Town on Tuesday morning on a four-day state visit to South Africa. During his visit, Bouteflika will co-chair the second session of the South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission (BNC) with President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria. The visit is intended to strengthen […]
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/ 17 October 2001
Cape Town | Wednesday DEFIANT unicity mayor Peter Marais refused to quit when asked to do so by party leader Tony Leon and has now planned a triumphant return to office on Wednesday. Speaking on SAFM on Wednesday, he said: ”Councillors, members of the public and even a church choir will be there to welcome […]
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/ 17 October 2001
THE search and rescue operation to find nine crew members from a capsized fishing trawler off St Francis Bay on the Eastern Cape coast was to resume on Wednesday morning after poor weather conditions and bad visibility hampered earlier rescue efforts. The Southern Reaper, with a crew of 19, overturned in heavy seas on Tuesday […]
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/ 17 October 2001
THE murder trial arising out of the Bisho shootings nine years ago resumes on Wednesday in the Special Investigative Unit tribunal courts in Sanlam Park, East London. This follows a brief in the Bisho Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday to hear the court’s findings from Monday’s inspection of the site. Former Ciskei Defence Force officer Vakele […]
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/ 17 October 2001
Jalalabad, Kabul | Wednesday FIFTEEN people have been killed by the United States when bombs destroyed a mosque and surrounding houses in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, the Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistan told a press conference on Thursday. ”In this mosque which was demolished by a US attack 15 people have reported to have […]
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/ 17 October 2001
Afghanistan, Washington | Friday AT least 160 bodies have been recovered from a village in eastern Afghanistan that was bombed by US planes, the Taliban said on Friday. ”So far 160 bodies have been recovered, mostly women and children,” a representative for Afghanistan’s ruling militia told the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press. ”This is not an […]
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/ 16 October 2001
From Cameroon this week, news of the death of one of Africa’s foremost writers, Mongo Beti (born 1932), writes Chris Dunton.
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/ 16 October 2001
The finalists in the English and Afrikaans categories of the M-Net Book Prize — South Africa’s most lucrative prize for works of fiction — have been announced.