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/ 14 February 2001
BILLITON’S Mozambique aluminium smelter, Mozal, says a strike called to protest pay discrepancies had come to a peaceful end and the impact on production was slight. A dayshift of 200 people downed tools in a wage protest, but after long meetings between government ministers, union leadership and management the strike was called off by the […]
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/ 14 February 2001
THE rebel leader in Sierra Leone has returned nine vehicles and 56 weapons stolen from the UN peacekeeping force last year. UN associate representative Marie Okabe said the weapons ”appeared to be in decent condition” but the vehicles – armoured personnel carriers seized by the United Revolutionary Front (RUF) – had been ”cannibalised”. The RUF […]
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/ 14 February 2001
SOUTH Africa’s largest sugar producer, Illovo, says it will sell its 80.25% stake in Mauritius company Mon Tresor Mon Desert (MTMD) for R472m in cash. Illovo said that agreement in principle had been reached for the sale to a consortium advised by South African financial services firm Brait International and PriceWaterhouse Coopers in Mauritius. It […]
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/ 13 February 2001
Sizwe samaYende, Lydenburg | Monday AN Mpumalanga farmer will be the first in South Africa to have his land expropriated after he refused to sell his land to the government for R840_000 so that it could be given to a dispossessed community. The legal team for land and agriculture minister Thoko Didiza is preparing to […]
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/ 13 February 2001
A SOUTH African court has withdrawn charges against seven vagrants accused of raping and robbing a Brazilian journalist because she failed to appear at the hearing. The reporter had been in South Africa for barely a day, in July 1999, when she was allegedly attacked on her way to her Johannesburg hotel. She left South […]
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/ 13 February 2001
SOUTH African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) chairman Barney Pityana has appealed to President Thabo Mbeki to intervene to save Marietta Bosch from being hanged in Botswana, The Sunday Independent newspaper reports. Bosch, on death row in Gaborone, is facing the gallows for murdering her best friend so that she could marry her husband. “In our […]
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/ 13 February 2001
NIGERIAS highest court has approved a death sentence against a man for killing his pregnant wife on suspicion her unborn child was the result of an affair. The Supreme Court of Nigeria confirmed the death sentence passed by a high court in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State that Pius Nweke be hanged for killing his […]
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/ 13 February 2001
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Tuesday ZIMBABWES government has stepped up its campaign to drive senior members of the country’s judiciary off the bench, accusing judges of bias in favour of whites and the opposition. The first casualty was chief justice of the Supreme Court Anthony Gubbay, who last week was asked to retire early. Two […]
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/ 13 February 2001
A BANGLADESHI court has ordered the immediate release of a young Nigerian languishing in jail since 1992 after being sentenced to a two-month term. Despite the High Court order, Goddyu Ochendo’s release from Dhaka’s Central Jail could take a few more days while Nigerian diplomats prepare his travel document and ticket for a flight back […]