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/ 14 October 2001
EVIDENCE WA KA NGOBENI, Johannesburg | Friday THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) hid key apartheid-era military intelligence information from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The commission had investigated the wholesale disposal of apartheid-era information and concluded that all military intelligence had kept was three series of files. Each series contains thousands of […]
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/ 14 October 2001
AN explosion at a scrap metal yard in a northern city killed its owner and injured six others, four of them seriously, police said on Wednesday. It was unclear what caused the blast in Mzuzu, and an explosives expert had been sent to the scene to investigate. Witnesses said a huge explosion was heard in […]
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/ 14 October 2001
A FARMER from Waterpoort near Louis Trichardt appeared in court on Wednesday after apparently setting his dogs on three Zimbabwean job-seekers. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the men approached Jacobus du Plessis for work and he told them he had none to offer. He then allegedly set his dogs on the men. Two of the men […]
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/ 14 October 2001
ISLAMABAD | Monday AFGHANISTAN’S hardline Taliban regime vowed on Monday to avenge US and British air strikes against its territory which London said caused ”very considerable damage” and the Afghans claimed killed more than 25 people. The Taliban’s ambassador in neighbouring Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, condemned the air assault as ”horrendous terrorist attacks” that targeted […]
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/ 14 October 2001
LIONS will be reintroduced to the Tembe Elephant Park on the border of Mozambique in northern KwaZulu-Natal, making it a big five reserve, it was announced on Wednesday. Wildlands Trust, an independent fund-raising and project management organisation involved in conservation-based community development in the province, has allocated R100 000 to upgrade the park fence before […]
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/ 14 October 2001
PLAGUE has broken out in Uganda claiming 17 lives, Medinfo reported on Wednesday. It said the deaths were reported in the Nebbi district and were confirmed by State Minister of Health, Mike Mukula. The ministry has sent an emergency medical team to the area to treat victims and assist with measures to curb the disease. […]
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/ 14 October 2001
SOUTH African Airways has paid out just over R1-million in 1 283 claims for theft from baggage on the airline’s flights worldwide up to the end of September this year, says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe. Replying to a question by Rudi Heine (DA), he said SAA had paid out R1,832-million in 3 108 claims […]
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/ 14 October 2001
THE United Nations and its secretary-general Kofi Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for ”their work for a better organised and more peaceful world.” – Sapa-AFP Thursday October 11, 2001
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/ 14 October 2001
A MALAWIAN court has sentenced a 60-year-old woman to seven years in jail for infecting an 11-year-old boy with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, police said on Wednesday. Police publicist Oliver Soko said the woman, Emmie Nkumbira, forced the boy to have sex with her on August 24. The boy revealed the incident to […]
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/ 14 October 2001
Luanda | Thursday UNITA rebels kidnapped 16 children who attending mass in a Roman Catholic church in Angola’s northern Kwanza-Norte province, Bishop Luis Escarpa said on Thursday, Radio Ecclesia reported. Guerrillas of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) burst into the church at Kiluanji as mass was being celebrated on Sunday, […]