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/ 7 February 2001
GIANT banking group Absa has denied that it owes millions of rands in taxes relating to the Reserve Bank’s controversial R1,5bn lifeboat to Bankorp in 1990. Johannesburg lawyer Peter Soller said that by failing to recover the R1bn in tax owed from Absa, Sars was discriminating against other taxpayers. If necessary, he would challenge this […]
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/ 7 February 2001
FIVE death row inmates found guilty of a wave of killings between 1993 and 1995 were taken to separate locations and executed this week, Guinea’s Justice Minister Abou Camara said. The executions of the individuals, considered ”big bandits” for their involvement in 20 murders committed in Conakry, were carried out in five Guinean cities. The […]
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/ 7 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Jerusalem | Wednesday THE Middle East has been plunged into a maelstrom of uncertainty after right-winger Ariel Sharon, a man vilified across the Arab world for his brutal conduct in the past, was catapulted into power as the next prime minister of Israel. Charting a new road map for Mideast peacemaking, Israelis appeared […]
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/ 6 February 2001
A BANGLADESHI court has asked Dhaka prison officials to produce a Nigerian languishing in jail here since 1992 after being sentenced to a two-month term. A High Court ruled Goddyu Ochendo should be produced this week. Ochendo, 28, and his teenage American girl Elieda MacCord were arrested in Dhaka airport in March 1992 and charged […]
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/ 6 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday SEVERAL of South Africa’s top black empowerment companies will be forming a consortium to re-capitalise Sekunjalo Investments, the listed empowerment group hit by the liquidation of Leisurenet last year, says Sekunjalo CEO Iqbal Surve. The groups would be pooling their resources to provide Sekunjalo with enough funds to become a […]
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/ 6 February 2001
MALAWIS magistrate court has cleared former public works minister Abdul Pillane of all 10 graft charges against him. Pillane is the second official in two months to be cleared of corruption charges, which have riled President Bakili Muluzi’s administration for two years. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), which was prosecuting the case, will appeal the decision, […]
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/ 6 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Nelspruit | Tuesday A 10-year old Mpumalanga boy who was left paralysed and brain damaged after attempts to treat his broken arm went horribly wrong four years ago may finally see justice this week. The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said it would investigate why provincial authorities ignored repeated appeals for additional medical […]
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/ 6 February 2001
GERMANY is to provide $370 000 in logistic support for troops of the west African force deploying along the Guinean-Liberian border. Troops from Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal will help protect the borders, to allow refugees and aid workers to move freely in the region. ECOWAS’ 15 members states authorised the deployment of the force […]
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/ 6 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday AN international anti-tuberculosis initiative, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, has launched a campaign to develop a more effective, cheaper treatment for the disease – which cripples poor countries across the world – by 2010. The organisation, which was formed in Bangkok in October, has opened a head […]
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/ 6 February 2001
PHILLIP NKOSI, Middelburg and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE ruling African National Congress has cracked the whip on on mavericks within its ranks for the third time in a week, saying the party would not tolerate defiance by individuals within our ranks as it dumped a democratically elected rebel mayor in Middelburg in favour […]