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/ 29 November 2001
The Good Food and Wine show at the Sandton Convention Centre at the weekend showed the ugly face of Johannesburg food — a sort of culinary Rand Show, writes Matthew Burbidge.
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/ 29 November 2001
Estelle Kokot is ready to roll and do what she does best in her public life, writes Paul Boekkooi.
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/ 29 November 2001
The UN estimates that five million people became infected with HIV this year and that worldwide 40-million people are living with the virus.
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/ 29 November 2001
Belgian brewer Interbrew said on Wednesday it had carried out an initial study of its rival South African Breweries but added that the parties had not discussed a possible Interbrew takeover. An Interbrew statement said the company had conducted a “preliminary analysis” that it described as a routine practice to assess global brewing groups. It […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Paris | Wednesday AIDS is cutting such a swathe through sub-Saharan Africa that in some countries, life expectancy is nearly half that in the West and the economy could shrink by a fifth over the next two decades, the UN said on Wednesday. Some states may be so weakened by the epidemic that they could […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Washington | Thursday A US House of Representatives committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation designed to pressure Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his government to restore democratic rule. The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act approved by the House International Relations Committee, directs President George W Bush’s administration to support the people of Zimbabwe in […]
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/ 29 November 2001
AMINU ABUBAKAR, Kano | Thursday THE embattled government of northern Nigeria’s most populous state admitted on Wednesday the scale of a cholera epidemic that has left more than 700 dead and hospitalised thousands. After weeks of denying the seriousness of the outbreak, which began in October and spread like wildfire through the narrow streets of […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Mombassa | Thursday AFRICA is losing two million hectares of forest every five years, making the continent move closer to becoming one huge desert, conservation experts warned here on Wednesday. “This translates to 22% of the nine million hectares lost globally in a single year, with a third of the remaining forest area under threat […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Johannesburg | Sunday SOUTH African police are probing the use of money sent to Afghanistan by aid agencies, amid speculation that it may be ending up in the hands of fighters. Some R20-million ($two-million) have flowed to Afghanistan from South Africa, where it was collected by several relief agencies, police told the Sunday Independent newspaper. […]
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/ 29 November 2001
Johannesburg | Wednesday CANADA’S International Development Research Centre (IDRC) announced that its Acacia Program in Southern Africa will now be hosted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). A signing ceremony is taking place today at the Bank’s Headquarters in Midrand, South Africa. The programme aims to empower sub-Saharan communities with the ability to […]