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/ 12 December 2001
Blantyre | Wednesday AT least seven people were injured on Tuesday when police used ammunition to quell a riot on the university campus in the town of Zomba, witnesses and hospital sources said. The riot erupted when police tried to break up a protest by dreadlocked Rastafarians, which university students and others had joined. Scores […]
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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 […]
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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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/ 11 December 2001
Over the last six months or so, SABC television’s current affairs programmes have been showing encouraging signs of independent thought. This perception was smashed into dust last Sunday when on SABC2’s Newsmaker programme we had to grit our teeth and put up with 15 minutes of Mr McCaps Motimele, the Unisa senior something-or-other who, according […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Kwaito singer and TV star Zola has used his rapid rise to fame to celebrate gangster life in the ghetto, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 11 December 2001
Harare | Tuesday A MEETING of southern African foreign ministers to assess Zimbabwe’s land reforms sharply criticised the West on Monday over attempts to impose sanctions on President Robert Mugabe’s government. “We would like to make it clear that we don’t support sanctions,” said the meeting’s chairwoman, Lilian Patel, Malawi’s foreign minister. Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister […]
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/ 11 December 2001
A 19-year-old alleged drug dealer from Cameroon was in critical condition after German police forced him to take an emetic to make him vomit up narcotics he had swallowed. Authorities said the man, who was not identified, had had a heart attack Sunday after being given the herbal emetic Ipecacuanha while in custody. Police later […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Johannesburg | Tuesday HUNDREDS of unidentified and unclaimed corpses have piled up in mortuaries in and around Johannesburg and Pretoria, according to police who say they are forced to give the dead pauper’s burials. “On average 35 to 45 unidentified bodies arrive in the morgues in Gauteng (Province) every day,” police representative Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said […]
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/ 11 December 2001
A ROMAN Catholic priest was gunned down in a township north of Pretoria in a hijacking shortly after he conducted a prayer meeting at a home, a police representative said on Sunday. Father Michael Danucci (60) was overpowered as he left the house at Soshanguve, about 15 kilometres north of the city, Inspector Anton Breedt […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Bisho | Tuesday AT least 52 initiates were receiving treatment for circumcision complications in hospitals in the Eastern Cape, hospital officials said on Monday. At Hewu Hospital in Whittlesea, 20 young men were being treated, while Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (CMH) in Mdantsane was treating 17. One of the boys was still in the intensive care […]