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/ 6 November 2001
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
Mpumalanga | Tuesday RELYING on 1999 election talk, New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Monday said the Democratic Alliance would lead supporters in the same way as former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had isolated whites in Zimbabwe. Van Schalkwyk was lobbying members of the NNP provincial head council at the Eastdene Community […]
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/ 6 November 2001
ONE of the three children that a 25-year old man shot in Mbalenhle, Mpumalanga before he committed suicide died on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. Captain Sibongile Nkosi said the other two children were still in a critical condition and one had been transferred from Evander Hospital to H.F Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria. Nkosi […]
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/ 6 November 2001
Cape Town | Tuesday WESTERN Cape premier Gerald Morkel on Tuesday was granted a high court order which sealed victory in his membership battle with the New National Party. The order formally sets aside the NNP’s decision last week to suspend Morkel from its ranks after he rebelled against its split from the Democratic Alliance. […]
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/ 6 November 2001
THE three flight crew that were killed when a cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at Johannesburg International Airport on Saturday morning have been identified, the Civil Aviation Authority said on Sunday. They are the pilot Eduard Davey (29) Wesley Hampton-Cole (22) and Johannes Heinrich Janik (37) a Namibian citizen. CAA representative Trevor Davids said […]
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/ 6 November 2001
MIKE CRAWLEY, Bujumbura | Tuesday TREES and thick bushes sprout up from the layer of rubble that carpets Burundi’s former presidential palace, a ruined shell amid hotels and office buildings in the centre of the lakeside capital. This is the spot where Burundi’s deadly civil war was triggered in 1993 when ethnic Tutsi soldiers stormed […]
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/ 6 November 2001
AN American radio correspondent accused of working from his state-owned home in Angola has been acquitted, the Angolan journalists’ trade union SJA said on Tuesday. Legal proceedings were brought against Isidoro Natalicio, the correspondent for Voice of America, by the Angolan authorities, who accused Natalicio of working from home in Cuanza Norte. The Angolan authorities […]
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/ 6 November 2001
Rustenburg | Tuesday FORTY people, believed to members of platinum theft syndicates, were arrested in the North West on Tuesday morning while about R9-million of the precious metal was recovered, police reported. ”We have smashed five syndicates,” Superintendent Ernie van Rensburg told reporters at a platinum mine near Rustenburg. He said police hoped to arrest […]
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/ 6 November 2001
SIX Upington men, aged between 24 and 66, are to appear in the town’s magistrate’s court on Monday on charges of raping and indecently assaulting a nine-month-old girl in Louisvale. Piet van Rooi (39) Jan Mienies (45) John Radebi (24) Frans Mosterd (28) Jan van Wyk (66) and Job Freeman (32) were arrested in October […]
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/ 5 November 2001
Even if this is all Kaolin Thomson is (you might remember her from the band Naked), then it’s still more than many musicians can hope to be. <i>On All I Am</i> (Sheer) she flaunts her music skills to great effect.