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/ 20 November 2001
Born in South Africa, Lindsey Collen has lived in Mauritius since 1974 and has been a controversial figure there for her espousal of women’s rights. Though her novel, <i>The Rape of Sita</i> (1994), won the prestigious Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, it was banned in Mauritius where Muslim pressure groups objected to its forceful feminism.
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/ 20 November 2001
After several years in the salt mines of fashion, chill-out music is suddenly hip again. Television-advertised down-tempo compilations are even outselling the annual bangin’ Ibiza collections. If one band has a claim to kickstarting the chill-out revival, it’s Groove Armada.
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/ 20 November 2001
CANADA will provide 1,3 million-dollars (US$819 000) to a nongovernmental women and children’s organization in Mozambique led by Graca Machel, the wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, the International Development Agency said. The Canadian contribution to Mozambique’s Community Development Foundation was announced on Sunday, during a three-day visit to Canada by Machel and […]
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/ 20 November 2001
Pretoria | Tuesday FOUR of six white South African policemen were convicted on Monday for setting their dogs on three suspected illegal immigrants from Mozambique, saying it was done to train their dogs to bite humans. The six men were arrested in November last year after sickening video footage of the attack was shown on […]
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/ 20 November 2001
Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota suspended his acquisitions chief, Chippy Shaik, on Monday following allegations that he had disclosed classified information. Lekota told reporters however that the allegations did not relate to a probe into alleged corruption in a 5,5-billion-dollar arms acquisition deal, or to Shaik’s brother Schabir Shaik, who has […]
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/ 20 November 2001
United Nations | Tuesday THE plunder of natural resources in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo continues unabated, a UN panel said Monday, while softening a previous call for punitive measures to stop it. In a report to the Security Council, the five-man panel recommended a moratorium on imports of gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt, timber, […]
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/ 20 November 2001
TWO children, one a toddler, were raped in the north of Namibia at the weekend. Sergeant James Matengu said that a three-year-old girl had apparently been raped by a 24-year-old man at Omundaungilo village in the Ohangwena Region on Friday night. “The poor child was left home with other children. The suspect apparently called her […]
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/ 20 November 2001
Bujumbura | Tuesday More than 2 000 people fleeing attacks in northeast Burundi by Hutu rebels of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) have sought refuge in Muyinga province, a local official said on Monday. “The rebels attacked the camp for displaced people at Nganji, six kilometres from Muyinga, and then torched the […]
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/ 20 November 2001
Sudanese rebels killed 100 Sudanese government soldiers on Sunday when they ambushed and destroyed their convoy in the oil-rich region of Farink-Higlieg, the rebels said in a statement on Tuesday. The rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) “laid an ambush for a government convoy in this region and killed 100 Sudanese government troops,” […]
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/ 20 November 2001
THE Swazi government has announced tough new laws to crackdown on money-laundering. The new Money-Laundering Act will be discussed at an international conference on the subject to open at the Royal Swazi Convention Centre in Mbabane on Monday. The new law aims to net businesses, banks or individuals that are engaged in money-laundering or are […]