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/ 20 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday ZIMBABWES main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, believes a presidential election will be called in his country in August as the government deteriorates into panic. Meanwhile, diplomatic relations between Britain and Zimbabwe deteriorated as the Foreign Office confirmed it had called in the Zimbabwean high commissioner over the expulsion and intimidation […]
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/ 20 February 2001
A 39-year-old Briton caught last week with a large amount of cannabis and cash in his truck while trying to leave Morocco was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison. Geoffrey Richard Cousins, a farmer living in Yvers, France, was arrested on February 12 in Tangier when a police search of his vehicle turned […]
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/ 20 February 2001
FORMER Malawian dictator Kamuzu Banda will receive a “decent tomb” on Capital Hill in Lilongwe, according to a presidential statement on Monday announcing a new tomb committee. Banda ruled Malawi with an iron fist for three decades until the nation’s first multi-party elections in 1994. He died three years later. President Bakili Muluzi, who succeeded […]
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/ 20 February 2001
LOW salaries and large-scale bribery of traffic officials are reportedly among the main reasons for a breakdown in law enactment and road behaviour in South Africa, according to an Automobile Association (AA) study reported in the Beeld newspaper. The report says that bribery has become such an entrenched practice that it would only be rooted […]
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/ 20 February 2001
THOUSANDS of commuters are stranded after a devastating fire swept Pretorias central station on Monday night. The fire was believed to have been started by angry commuters protesting at delays caused by a faulty signalling system. Witnesses said about 6_000 commuters attempted to break into the control room, then returned to the main foyer where […]
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/ 20 February 2001
PRESIDENT Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal on Monday ordered a judicial inquiry into the killing of 13 civilians in troubled Casamance province last week. The 13 hauliers were attacked and killed by a gang of about 20 men near Bonna, some 100km northeast of the regional capital Ziguinchor. Armed separatists in Casamance have waged war against […]
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/ 20 February 2001
INHABITANTS of central Mozambique were urged to flee to high ground on Monday as another river threatened to burst its banks under heavy rain. Thousands of people have already fled their homes due to recent flooding, and the World Food Programme said the region was on further alert as the Save River rose after weekend […]
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/ 19 February 2001
The fact that it is independent hardly redeems Lyk Lollery, a not-so-new local comedy, writes Neil Sonnekus.
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/ 19 February 2001
DISGRACED anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak phoned top ANC politicians – including transport minister Dullah Omar – and a well-known Cape Town judge using a stolen cellphone from his cell in the Malmesbury prison, where he is serving a fraud sentence. According to weekend newspaper reports, Omar confirmed that he had been telephoned by Boesak from […]