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/ 29 January 2001
A 76-year-old date farmer in Egypt who has fathered 69 children wants to get married again – for the eighth time – so he can have more children. Qaddour Hakim says all he wants is a pretty woman about 20 years old who loves children – and is willing to live in a Saharan oasis […]
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/ 29 January 2001
ILDA JACOBS, Washington DC | Monday SOUTH African opera student Abel Moeng, from Thlabane village in North West Province, has been selected from candidates worldwide for the Arleen Auger Memorial Scholarship in New York City – and will attend a voice practical with the world famous Luciano Pavarotti in February. “He has it, I just […]
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/ 29 January 2001
SOMALI gunmen destroyed a Kenyan-registered light aircraft with rocket fire in the southern Somali port town of Kismayo after quarrelling over proceeds from khat, a mild leafy narcotic chewed by many Somalis. The pilot jumped out of the plane. Most khat chewed in Somalia is flown in daily from neighbouring Kenya in small aircraft.
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/ 29 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gaborone | Monday SOUTH African Marietta Bosch, who has been on Death Row in Botswana for a year, will know her fate on Tuesday when a verdict is handed down in her appeal against her conviction for murder and the subsequent death sentence. Bosch, 50, was sentenced to death in the Botswana High […]
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/ 29 January 2001
POLICE have seized 176kg of dagga, estimated to be worth more than R167 000, near Ventersburg. 11 bags of dagga were found inside a car driven by a 48-year-old Odendaalsrus man after two policemen noticed an over-loaded Ford Sierra stuffed with bags on the Senekal-Ventersburg road. The vehicle sped off and a chase ensued. One […]
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/ 29 January 2001
THE national president of Benin’s voodoo cult, Sossa Guedehoungue, has died in a Cotonou clinic after a short illness. The 88-year-old Guedehoungue was in 1991 designated president of the cult by the country’s voodoo priests. Benin is the cradle of voodoo, with 61% of the population initiates or faithful to the traditional religion. The voodooists […]
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/ 29 January 2001
MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates expanded his philanthropic activities on Saturday, as his foundation announced a $100m grant to help develop vaccines to fight AIDS. We should remember that a death from AIDS in Africa brings with it just as much pain as a death of one of our own family or friends,” said the billionaire […]
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/ 29 January 2001
EGYPT, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan signed a billion-dollar deal on Sunday for the transport and sale of natural gas between the four countries. The agreement stipulates the creation of two companies. One, which will be called Orient Company, will build gas pipelines across the Mediterranean to transport initially some 12m cubic metres of natural gas […]
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/ 29 January 2001
THE national death toll from cholera has reached 85 after the epidemic spread beyond KwaZulu-Natal after breaking out in August. In addition to the 78 people who died from the disease in KwaZulu-Natal, six people have died from it in the Northern Province and one in Gauteng. More than 28 000 people have been infected […]
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/ 29 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Zanzibar | Monday TANZANIAN police have battled opposition supporters on the semi-autonomous island of Pemba in Zanzibar for a second day, arresting hundreds of people in bloody clashes that have left 32 people dead. At least six of the dead were police officers, according to a toll compiled by reporters based on witness […]