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/ 14 October 2001

FARMER ON BAIL AFTER DOG ATTACK

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

MAN CHARGED WITH KILLING HIS SON

A 53-year-old man was arrested on Thursday night for allegedly killing his 19-year-old son at their home in Ladysmith, Kwazulu-Natal police said on Friday. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said the father and the son were arguing at their home in Camp Drive when a shot went off. The son, who was hit in the face, died […]

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/ 14 October 2001

SAA SHELLS OUT R1-M FOR STOLEN BAGGAGE

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

DEADLY BLAST AT MALAWI SCRAPYARD

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

America’s wrath: the missiles fly

Kabul | Monday AMERICAN wrath over the worst terrorist atrocities in history was finally unleashed as US and British forces launched air and cruise missile attacks on Taliban targets across Afghanistan. An onslaught that began after nightfall on Sunday, nearly four weeks after the devastating attacks on New York and Washington, continued throughout the night. […]

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/ 14 October 2001

‘Four UN workers killed in bomb raids’

Islamabad | Tuesday US WARPLANES on Tuesday continued to pound Taliban targets in Afghanistan, killing ”tens of civilians,” as well as four Afghans employed by the United Nations, according to the militia. In the first daytime raids of the three-day-old air assault, missiles are also said to have destroyed the former Kandahar home of Taliban […]

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/ 13 October 2001

NEW MALARIA DRUG ‘REMARKABLY EFFECTIVE’

A NEW combination of antimalarial drugs, tested in Tanzania, has proven remarkably successful against resistant strains of the disease, according to a study reported in Saturday’s issue of The Lancet. The combination is a mixture of two existing drugs, chlorproguanil and dapsone, the British medical weekly said. A team led by Theonest Mutabingwa from the […]