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/ 7 November 2001

‘No excuses, transform advertising in SA’

ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Wednesday THE ignorance or naivet of white people could no longer be an acceptable excuse for continuing racist practices in the advertising industry, Jannie Ngwale, the chairman of The Agency told MPs on Tuesday. Ngwale was among those who appeared before the National Assembly’s communications committee, which began its two-day […]

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/ 7 November 2001

17 YEAR-OLD CHARGED WITH RAPE OF TODDLER

A 17-YEAR-old youth was arrested on Monday in connection with the rape of a four-year-old neighbour in Wepener near the Lesotho border in the southern Free State, Bloemfontein police reported on Wednesday. Captain Ernest Mayiki said the youth was arrested after the mother discovered her child bloodied and traumatised. ”On Tuesday, police discovered that the […]

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/ 7 November 2001

Carpet bombing part of the plan, says US

Washington | Thursday THE US-led air campaign in Afghanistan entered a 26th day on Thursday with Washington warning the Taliban regime to brace for more carpet-bombing of their positions across the country. At least one B-52 bomber was spotted dropping large numbers of unguided bombs over Taliban frontlines north of Kabul on Wednesday and a […]

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/ 7 November 2001

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MATHEW GONIWE

THE life and times of slain Cradock apartheid activist Mathew Goniwe is set to be captured in a documentary that is expected to shed more light on his assassination by apartheid government agents 16 years ago. The bodies of the murdered Cradock school teacher and his three compatriots Sicelo Mhlawuli, Fort Calata and Sparrow Mkhonto […]

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/ 6 November 2001

Robbery tip: don’t go back for the car

Johannesburg | Tuesday A SOUTH African robbery suspect who abandoned his car during a robbery to avoid capture was arrested the same night when he reported the theft of his car to local police, Johannesburg newspapers said on Tuesday. The suspect has been dubbed the “dumbest criminal” by police in Benoni, east of Johannesburg. Police […]

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/ 6 November 2001

IN UGANDA, RHINO’S TO ROAM ONCE MORE

UGANDA has imported two white rhinos from a ranch in Kenya in a process to start breeding them in Uganda, Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) said on Monday. “The two animals, which were transported on trucks from Solio Ranch in central Kenya’s Laikipia district, have arrived at the UWEC in Entebbe and will be kept […]

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/ 6 November 2001

10 KILLED IN CLASHES IN NIGERIA

TEN people were killed and many hundreds fled their homes in weekend fighting between Christians and Muslims in northern Nigeria, witnesses said on Sunday. The fighting broke out late on Friday and continued on Saturday between rival communities in the locality of Gwantu in the Sanga local government area of Kaduna State. Troops had been […]