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/ 13 December 2001
Islamabad | Thursday CRACKS began appearing on Thursday in the landmark power-sharing accord signed in Bonn as leading Pashtun royalist Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani complained that the agreement was not balanced. The royalist Afghan spiritual leader, who heads the so-called Peshawar Group which participated in the Bonn conference, said the new interim administration lacked balance. […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Cape Town | Thursday TWO Slovakian wildlife smugglers, found guilty in the Atlantis Regional Court last week of illegally collecting suitcases full of tortoises on the Cape’s West Coast, on Wednesday received fines totalling R168 000 each. The two men, Martin Kyskyn and Martin Juricek, both 27, were found guilty on Wednesday last week on […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Stockholm | Thursday Africa is more in need of development aid than ever following the worldwide economic slowdown and the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on the United States, the head of the African Development Bank, Omar Kabbaj, said in Stockholm on Thursday. Kabbaj said that while there was ”an expression of strong support” […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Bonn | Wednesday RIVAL Afghan groups meeting in Germany struck a historic UN-sponsored power-sharing accord Wednesday, agreeing on who will serve in an interim government, the United Nations announced. UN representative Ahmad Fawzi said the 29-member executive cabinet, which will rule Afghanistan for the next six months, is to be headed by the royalist ethnic […]
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/ 12 December 2001
The House at the Edge of the World (M&G Books) is Tim Haynes’s hilarious account of his family’s four-year stay in rural Ireland. In this excerpt, he attends a wake.
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/ 12 December 2001
ANTHONY STOPPARD, Johannesburg | Wednesday DESPITE a steep drop in the value of the South African rand, the government is likely to resist pressure for it to step in and try to protect the currency. The rand dropped from under R10 to a new low of R11,28 to the United States dollar, since the beginning […]
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/ 12 December 2001
A 23-year-old student in Nigeria has renounced Islam to escape amputation after he was accused in an Islamic court of stealing. Mohammed Ali told the court in the northwest city of Sokoto at the weekend that he would convert to Christianity and that he should be tried under the provisions of the Bible, Rima radio […]
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/ 12 December 2001
Washington | Wednesday THE US space agency NASA has agreed in principle to allow a South African millionaire to become the world’s second space tourist on the International Space Station, a representative said on Tuesday. Mark Shuttleworth (28) signed a contract with the Russian Space Agency earlier this month to travel aboard a Soyuz shuttle […]
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/ 12 December 2001
Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe won a pat on the back on Wednesday from visiting African ministers when they ended talks by backing his land reforms and opposing potential sanctions imposed by the West. Ministers in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ”welcomed the legislative and other mechanisms the government was putting in […]
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/ 12 December 2001
CELLULAR network provider MTN and banking giant Standard Bank, were on Tuesday named as the first partners of the UN World Summit unsustainable development 2002 (WSSD), the Johannesburg world summit company announced in Johannesburg. Company chief executive officer Moss Mashishi said both companies’ commitment through funding this summit illustrated recognition of their role as corporates […]