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/ 10 February 2001
TWO people are feared dead ater a South African helicopter crashed in Mfuwe National Park in eastern Zambia. Police said rescuers had not been able to reach the wreckage because of heavy rains and the difficult terrain. Two helicopters rushed to the scene could not land. “Our officers will try to get there Friday, depending […]
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/ 10 February 2001
A NUDIST resort in KwaZulu-Natal must admit blacks or face legal action by the South African Human Rights Commission, The Star newspaper reported. The commission has given Jane’s Jungle seven days to abide by the country’s constitution and admit blacks or face a lawsuit, it said. South African naturist pioneer Beau Brummel opened Jane’s Jungle, […]
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/ 10 February 2001
AN Mpumalanga businessman and an unemployed man accused of child sex will remain in custody for the duration of their trial. Security company owner and auctioneer Daniel Francois Botha, 57, and his friend Andries Johannes van der Mescht, 37, spent three days trying to convince the Belfast Magistrates Court to grant them bail. Their co-accused, […]
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/ 10 February 2001
KWAZULU-Natal Wildlife media liaison officer Jeff Gaisford has been suspended for talking to the media about planned retrenchments in the organisation during negotiations. KwaZulu-Natal agriculture and environmental affairs MEC Narend Singh earlier this week announced that about 600 KZN Wildlife employees would be retrenched because of financial constraints. The Natal Witness on Friday reported that […]
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/ 10 February 2001
A FIRE that raged from Thursday to Friday near Cape Town destroyed 18 buildings, officials said. It was brought under control Friday afternoon after firefighters from five stations in Cape Town were called in, said Cape Town Disaster Management Centre representative John Brown. He said about 160 firefighters and police were dousing the remnants of […]
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/ 10 February 2001
RWANDA will not leave the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) until Hutu extremists fighting there are disarmed, Foreign Minister Louis Michel said on Friday after talks with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Michel said Kagame explained Rwanda’s involvement in the DRC conflict by saying he only wanted to secure Rwanda’s borders, but Kigali has long been […]
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/ 10 February 2001
ABOUT 120 people were left homeless after a fire gutted 66 shacks at Langa on the Cape Flats on Friday night, a Cape Town disaster management representative said on Saturday. Mark Pluke said the fire began at about 1am and was extinguished an hour and a half later. No one was seriously injured in the […]
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/ 10 February 2001
DESPITE some pre-speech jitters, South African bonds moved stronger on the back of President Thabo Mbeki’s “nothing new” state-of-the-nation address. At 1220 local time (1020 GMT), the key benchmark government R150 bond was at 11.405% from a previous close of 11.420%. The longer-dated R153 was at 12.04% from a previous close of 12.08%. The currency […]
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/ 10 February 2001
WORLD number one platinum producer Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) plans to develop a new smelter at Pietersburg in the Northern Province at a cost of R1.306bn. The project will result in some 1 000 new permanent and temporary jobs being created, the company said, adding it will take 22 months to complete. Angloplat on Monday releases […]
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/ 10 February 2001
ZIMBABWE?S Econet Wireless Holdings said it had paid Nigeria $285m for its GSM licence, setting the stage for fierce battle for control of the Nigerian telecoms industry by southern African companies. SA mobile phone operator M-Cell had earlier announced the payment of the same amount for its Nigerian GSM licence, won last month, in Africa’s […]