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/ 15 February 2001
THE Kenyan government is considering whether to reoffer a 49% stake in state-owned Telkom Kenya because its attempts to get a higher price have made little progress. Finance Minister Chris Okemo said the government was still negotiating with Mount Kenya Consortium, a group led by Zimbabwe’s Econet Wireless Holdings hoping to get the company to […]
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/ 15 February 2001
HUNDREDS of squatters have battled police in the poverty-stricken Alexandra township in Johannesburg in a protest against government efforts to evacuate families facing a cholera outbreak. Police fired volleys of teargas, rubber bullets and stun grenades after protesters threw rocks to stop authorities from moving families to new homes from makeshift shacks built on a […]
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/ 14 February 2001
There were few major surprises in the list of nominations for this year’s 73rd annual Academy Awards announced in Beverly Hills.
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/ 14 February 2001
Own Correspondent, Windhoek HUMANITARIAN organisations in Namibia fear that the planned move of a huge refugee camp to the northeast of the country will disrupt the fragile way of life of the largely illiterate San hunter-gatherers there. Officials say that as a result of that concern, the ministry of home affairs has agreed to commission […]
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/ 14 February 2001
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday SCORES of Mpumalanga schools still practise petty apartheid, denying their black pupils equal education and access to science labs or sports facilities and forcing them to use separate buses on school trips. Some of the more “hardcore racist” schools also refuse to offer non-Afrikaans speakers mathematics, commerce or other science […]
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/ 14 February 2001
THE mayor of Tobatse in the Northern Province has come under fire for wanting to take a trip to China that is expected to cost R180_000. The council has not budgeted for Mayor Pinky Morena’s trip, said Pan African Congress (PAC) chief whip in the Sekhukhune region, Nyankane Masilela. He alleged that PAC councillor Joel […]
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/ 14 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Wednesday FLOOD victims in central Mozambique are being plucked from treetops as at least two large settlements were swallowed by the Zambezi river this week, sparking emergency operations to evacuate people from affected areas. The Jardim and Chirembwe settlements in the Mutarara locality of Inhangome were reported to be under water. […]
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/ 14 February 2001
STEVEN SWINDELLS, Johannesburg | Wednesday MAJOR South African mining firms have started to test miners anonymously for Aids in an attempt to come to terms with a disease that threatens to devastate their workforce. The testing of miners’ saliva is expected to show that roughly a quarter of the country’s 500_000 miners are living with […]
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/ 14 February 2001
FRENCH judges looking into allegations of unauthorised arms sales to Angola are focusing on the gift of a luxury armour-plated car to President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. The vehicle – worth 1.3 million francs ($186 000) – was paid for partly by Brenco International, the arms trading company whose president Pierre Falcone is in prison […]