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/ 24 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, AFP, Maputo | Saturday THE South African Air Force could embark on a rescue mission to Mozambique, where more than 40 people have died and 77_000 have lost their homes, a year after the country was ravaged by floods, the Saturday Star reports. Foreign Affairs Director-General Sipho Pityana said: There is no question […]
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/ 24 February 2001
WARDERS at Cape Town’s Pollsmoor prison are to embark on a go-slow in protest against cutbacks in staff numbers at weekends. They say the reductions will endanger the safety of both members and inmates in the seriously overcrowded prison. A shop steward for the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) said this meant prisoners […]
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/ 24 February 2001
THE United Nations war crimes court has convicted three former Bosnian Serb commanders in a landmark prosecution of rape and sexual enslavement as crimes against humanity. The three received sentences ranging from 12 to 28 years for raping, enslaving and torturing Muslim women and girls in 1992. Prosecutors said the three took women and girls […]
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/ 24 February 2001
ELIZABETH PIPER, London | Friday WAS Babe the Pig responsible for Britain’s latest farming crisis? Or a smuggler? Or a tourist? British agricultural authorities searching for the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has set off a world ban on exports of British livestock and animal products have refused to rule out any theory. […]
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/ 23 February 2001
He had to put on 18kg and he wound up in hospital with a septic knee. Cast Away was tough for Tom Hanks but, he tells Danny Leigh worth it.
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/ 23 February 2001
whipping boy Murphy’s law if something can go wrong, it will applies to horseracing more than any other sport. So when an animal named All Will Be Well heads what seems to be a reasonable list of “good things” this weekend, one naturally gets suspicious. All Will Be Well takes on nine rivals in the […]
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/ 23 February 2001
Grant Shimmin athletics When one considers the man behind the newest national record in South African athletics, Burger Lambrechts, the clich “it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy” just seems to slip out. Not that one’s first sight of this bull of a man he was a Craven Week lock at school who tips […]
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/ 23 February 2001
Dylan Evans Managing the Human Animal by Nigel Nicholson (Texere) In the past few years, evolutionary psychology (or EP, as it is known) has given the chattering classes a lot to chatter about, but hasn’t had much impact in the world of business. That, however, may be about to change. A new book by Nigel […]
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/ 23 February 2001
The Canterbury Crusaders are probably favourites for a fourth consecutive title, but all South African eyes will be on the local contenders as the Super 12 kicks off Andy Capostagno The sixth season of Super 12 may be the last, with pressure from above to expand the format and take up even more space in […]
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/ 23 February 2001
Guy Willoughby theatre Is this the end or the beginning? How can we understand? John Betjeman’s lines hit home hard last week, as I watched the marvellous first performance in Cape Town of Death of a Salesman at once a gauntlet flung at the future and an elegy for a style of performance in fast […]