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/ 3 December 2001

Five-month-old girl raped in Jo’burg

Johannesburg, countrywide | Monday CHAOS reigned in South Africa over the weekend as dozens more children were raped and abused across the country. A five-month-old baby became one of the latest victims, raped by two men in Joubert Park, Johannesburg. In the Free State, boys aged four, six and 10, were accused of gang-raping their […]

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/ 2 December 2001

Zimbabwe to get law banning foreign reporters

Harare | Saturday THE Zimbabwe government has approved a new bill that will effectively bar foreign journalists from operating and impose strict operating conditions for local journalists, a move media practitioners have vowed to challenge. The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill will only allow Zimbabweans to operate as foreign correspondents, but slapped […]

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/ 2 December 2001

KZN sweatshop closed after twins’ death

Pretoria | Saturday THE South African government on Friday said they had closed a textile factory in the southeastern KwaZulu-Natal province following the death of twins born in the plant because their mother was trapped inside. Labour Department occupational health inspector Faiza Salie said the factory would not be allowed to continue operations until it […]

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/ 30 November 2001

Pastiche in pink

<b>Not quite comedy of the week:</b>It falters because it tries to be everything for everyone, but where it really falls apart is when it looks back to another era and turns to stone, writes Neil Sonnekus.

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/ 30 November 2001

Long drive to smart cards

The following letter, from an enraged Multichoice customer in Mtubatuba, was sent to me via the Mail & Guardian in September. In a display of the improved internal efficiency of this newspaper, I received it last week. It remains relevant and is reproduced in full but with a couple of excisions made with regard to […]