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/ 7 December 2001
It is heartening to see that the African National Congress and the government are speaking out on Zimbabwe. Less heartening, however, is some of the analysis. Perhaps the worst distortion is the comment by ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama that the main source of economic problems in Zimbabwe is ”subsidies”. This reinforces a suggestion by the […]
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/ 7 December 2001
Parties involved in the asbestos legal battle have broadly agreed on a UK20-million settlement. However, Northern Cape premier Manne Dipico and his Northern Province counterpart Ngoako Ramatlhodi said on Friday there had been no settlement. ”We have come back…hopeful that the end is very near,” Ramatlhodi told reporters. He said one of the main hitches […]
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/ 7 December 2001
THE New National Party in Gauteng on Thursday called for more appropriate sentences, including castration, for men who rape and abuse women and children. NNP leader Johan Kilian said: ”Men who rape are not men and unworthy of the God-given physical and emotional attributes associated with normal manhood. ”It is therefore appropriate that sexual offenders […]
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/ 6 December 2001
The Medical Research Council said South Africa’s first HIV/Aids vaccine trials may start as early as February next year.
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/ 6 December 2001
<b>REVIEW: </b><i>Mirror and Water Gazing</i>
by Kelwyn Sole (Gecko)
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/ 6 December 2001
CLAIRE KEETON, Cape Town | Thursday A MAN has been detained in Cape Town for questioning in connection with murder of former First Lady Marike de Klerk (64) police said on Thursday morning. Representative for the national commissioner’s office, Sally de Beer, said police believed they had enough reason to detain the man. She did […]
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/ 6 December 2001
NIGERIA’S state-run radio has banned its stations nationwide from broadcasting rap music, considered immoral by Muslim and Christian conservatives. A directive from the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) asked all broadcasters to note that “rap music is banned in all FRCN stations”. The directive, which was issued in October, violates the rights of young […]
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/ 6 December 2001
Pretoria | Wednesday PLANS of a plot to oust South African President Thabo Mbeki proved to be untrue, the country’s safety and security minister said on Tuesday, in an about-face since the allegations surfaced in April. Steve Tshwete, who publicly accused three senior African National Congress members of plotting to oust Mbeki, told journalists that […]
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/ 6 December 2001
Moscow | Thursday RUSSIAN diamond monopoly Alrosa could scale down supply to South African diamond giant De Beers, with whom it has an accord for selling Russian diamonds on international markets, a finance ministry official said on Wednesday. A governmental commission responsible for the development of the diamond industry is to call on Alrosa, supplier […]
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/ 6 December 2001
A PROMINENT Nigerian Aids activist received death threats on Tuesday hours after appearing on television and criticising a controversial doctor’s claim to have found a cure for the disease. Former military intelligence officer Mohammed Farouk, leader of the Nigerian Aids Alliance, said the threats came after he criticised the controversial doctor Jeremiah Abalaka during an […]