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/ 19 November 2001
Cape Town | Monday TONY Yengeni has sold the luxury 4X4 Mercedes at the centre of corruption claims linked to the controversial arms deal – and splashed out on a R330 000 Volvo convertible. The Sunday Times reported that the former ANC Chief Whip was spotted a week ago cruising Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard in […]
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/ 19 November 2001
TWENTY-six people were killed and 25 others hospitalised when a truck somersaulted on a road in northern Nigeria, a local radio station reported on Sunday. The accident occurred on Saturday along the Funtua-Zaria road in Kaduna State after a rear tyre burst. The report said 25 people died on the spot while one person died […]
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/ 19 November 2001
AGBANI Darego of Nigeria won the 2001 Miss World beauty pageant at the lavish Sun City resort in South Africa on Friday night. Darego (18) was chosen out of 96 contestants from around the world. She is a computer science student, and wants to become a supermodel, as well as a computer scientist. The first […]
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/ 19 November 2001
ALMOST 4 000 surplus and redundant small arms and light weapons comprising mainly AK-47 rifles seized from criminals have been destroyed during a joint Lesotho-South African operation in Benoni on the East Rand, SABC radio news reported on Friday. The initiative was entitled Operation Sardien. The United States donated R150 000 to the SA National […]
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/ 19 November 2001
Harare | Monday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe vowed to crack down on the opposition on Sunday, describing them as ”terrorists” sponsored by the British government. In an emotional speech during the state funeral of a murdered ruling party militant whose death he blamed on opposition activists, Mugabe issued a warning to Britain, the former colonial […]
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/ 19 November 2001
WEST Rand police were on Saturday investigating a murder case after a truck driver found the body of a 10-year-old girl on Hammer Road at Boltonia on Friday night, police said. Inspector Yolande Bouwer said the truck driver contacted police after he found the body of Joey van der Merwe. Her jacket and schoolbag were […]
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/ 19 November 2001
THE body of an 84-year-old farmer was found in his house in Steytlerville in the Uitenhage area on Sunday afternoon, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. Police said the man’s son became worried when he could not get hold of his father. He called the police and they proceeded to the house around 2pm. The […]
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/ 19 November 2001
A 13-YEAR-old boy was arrested on Saturday morning for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl in Kwazakhele township, Port Elizabeth, on Friday, police said. Superintendent Charmain Momberg said the toddler’s mother left the girl with her elder daughter and went to work. On Saturday morning, she discovered that the toddler had been raped and took the […]
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/ 19 November 2001
AN HIV positive woman was gang-raped by four men in the city’s Motherwell township on Saturday, police said. Inspector Michael September said on Sunday the victim, Nomalinge Kupela (38) was asleep with her two young sons when the men burst into her shack and attacked her. She did not tell them she was HIV positive, […]
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/ 19 November 2001
Mafikeng | Monday EVEN Christians should use condoms because they are human beings of flesh and blood, North West health MEC Molefi Sefularo said on Sunday. ”Be faithful and condomise, let us do so without the underlying attitude being that those that will be infected will be reaping the results of sin or weakness of […]