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/ 11 January 2001
ZAMBIAN health authorities have withdrawn a hard-hitting anti-AIDS campaign from state radio and television after church groups said it encouraged promiscuity and moral decay. The Catholic Church and the umbrella church group Christian Council of Zambia had urged the government to withdraw the adverts, saying they were in bad taste and appeared to condone sex […]
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/ 11 January 2001
ZIMBABWE?S main commercial farming union said crops planted by war veterans illegally occupying white-owned farms would not add much to the amount of food available in the country. In its latest update on the farm occupations, which started in February 1999, the Commercial Farmers? Union said haphazard illegal ploughing and planting were prevalent countrywide well […]
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/ 10 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday A TOP official at South Africas Road Accident Fund, which has a deficit of R9.2bn, has launched a stinging attack on the politicians, unscrupulous lawyers and excessive administration expenditure he says are responsible for driving the fund to the brink of bankruptcy. The funds Duif de Waal, a re-appointed […]
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/ 10 January 2001
MUSIC piracy and the illegal importation of audio and video music cassettes is costing Tanzania an average of US$9,4m every year, industry authorities claim. Tanzania’s Music Copyright Association (TMCA) secretary general Francis Kaswahili said more than six million audio music cassettes and 2,5m video cassettes were illegally duplicated and sold on the country’s streets during […]
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/ 10 January 2001
UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni has been officially nominated as a candidate for presidential elections to be held in the next two months, before a large cheering crowd in central Kampala. The crowd was peaceful, in contrast to Monday, when angry supporters of presidential hopeful Nasser Sebaggala clashed with police after their candidate was disqualified by […]
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/ 10 January 2001
THE Nigerian subsidiary of South Africa’s mobile phones group MTN is among five companies qualified to bid for three phone licences to be auctioned here next week. The other four successful bidders are Econet Wireless Nigeria Ltd; United Networks Mobile Ltd; Communication Investments Ltd; (CIL) and MSI-Celtel Nigeria Ltd. Three new licences to operate mobile […]
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/ 10 January 2001
A YOUNG man whose love interest resisted his charms shot himself in the thigh to spite her, but bled to death. Mpumalanga police said Bongani Mthombothi, 26, of Kabokweni, near White River, was devastated when a woman known only as Precious was unmoved by his ardent affections. He could not take it anymore and drew […]
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/ 10 January 2001
BRIAN LIGOMEKA, Blantyre | Wednesday INTERNATIONAL human rights watchdog Amnesty International has slammed Malawi’s inability to prevent massive rape and sexual abuse of juvenile prisoners in the country’s penal system. Amnesty International’s German chapter lodged formal written complaints with Malawi authorities condemning the systematic abuse of juvenile prisoners at Malawi’s largest penitentiary, the Zomba Maximum […]
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/ 10 January 2001
JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori visited the grave of Hector Pietersen, the first victim of the anti-apartheid uprisings in Johannesburg’s Soweto township, on Monday, his first day in South Africa. South Africa expects Mori’s visit to build both political and trade relations with Japan, its most important trading partner in Asia. The prime minister is […]