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/ 5 November 2001
Over the past two weekends BBC World has been broadcasting a two-part documentary called The Slave Children, inspired by the news, last April, of the ship Etireno, which, for three weeks, had been refused entry to several West African ports because it was believed to be carrying child slaves. It would appear that the local […]
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/ 5 November 2001
PHILIPPE BERNES-LASSERRE, Johannesburg | Monday AFTER three months of hearings, a probe into a stampede at a Johannesburg football stadium has heard an astonishing catalogue of errors, omissions and negligence surrounding the death of 43 spectators. Lack of police co-ordination, security guards taking bribes to allow those without tickets to enter, television cameras blocking ambulances, […]
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/ 5 November 2001
THABO Mbeki will lead a South African delegation to attend the General Debate of the 56th annual Session of the UN General Assembly starting in New York on November 10. Mbeki will be the third speaker to address the General Assembly in his capacity as the chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) behind Brazil and […]
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/ 5 November 2001
CAPE TOWN, Dirk van Zyl | Monday NEGOTIATING teams from the African National Congress and the New National Party met on Sunday to discuss the structures of future co-operation between the two parties. This would be based on principles agreed on at a number of meetings between the two working groups during the past week, […]
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/ 5 November 2001
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Friday ZIMBABWE’S government on Thursday unveiled the troubled nation’s 2002 annual budget, seen as clearly populist, and admitted it had failed to salvage the crumbling economy. Zimbabwe’s finance minister Simba Makoni painted a bleak picture of Zimbabwe’s economy, predicting another year of economic depression. The economy is expected to shrink 7,3% […]
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/ 5 November 2001
A COUP attempt in the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan has been foiled and its mastermind, former leader Lieutenant-Colonel Said Abeid Abderemane has fled, a military source said on Sunday. An unnamed military source announced on Radio Anjouan that “the army and loyalist forces are in control of the situation,” after the attempted putsch by […]
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/ 5 November 2001
THE man accused of shooting a motorcyclist in an apparent road rage killing in August will appear briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Owen Kroeger is on R5 000 bail following the shooting of Morare Matekane, who damaged the mirror of Kroeger’s car in a minor accident in central Johannesburg. A report of […]
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/ 5 November 2001
Kisangani | Monday MEDIA watchdog Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, RSF) on Sunday called on rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo to release an imprisoned journalist and begin respecting freedom of the press. RSF wrote Azarias Ruberwa, secretary general of the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), asking him ”to liberate this […]
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/ 5 November 2001
JENNI EVANS, Johannesburg | Monday WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela will be told to stop the reconstruction of her businesses which were demolished last month and will be assigned an inspector to help her comply with bylaws to resolve the matter, Johannesburg’s mayoral representative said on Monday. The tavern, club and tuck shop outside her house were demolished […]