The rand extended its losses on Wednesday, pressured by mounting concern over Zimbabwe’s eviction of white commercial farmers and general jitters after key support levels were broken the previous day.
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/ 19 October 2001
A DISTRAUGHT Eastern Cape family is suing the provincial blood transfusion service and a doctor at a public hospital after their child was allegedly given a transfusion without their consent – and the blood was contaminated with HIV. The family’s lawyer, Bantu Njamela, claims the one-year-old child was infected with the virus after a blood […]
UP to 1_000 elephants that were due to be culled in terms of the Kruger National Park?s conservation management plan will be given a new lease of life in neighbouring Mozambique. About 100 Kruger elephants are scheduled to be released in Mozambique between October and the end of the year, while the rest will be […]
PUBLIC threats directed at a journalist is the behaviour expected of thugs in Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party, and not of a spokesman of the African National Congress, says the man in the middle of a furore sparked by calling President Mbeki a womaniser. Writing in his regular column in The Star newspaper, journalist Max du […]
THE African National Congress has accused prominent journalist Max du Preez of being a racist for saying that President Thabo Mbeki is a womaniser, accused him of ”irresponsible behaviour which bordered on hate speech?. In an emotional statement, ANC national spokesman Smuts Ngonyama said: ?Max du Preez and his ‘old friends’ have clearly embarked on […]
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/ 26 February 2001
FORMER President Nelson Mandela has launched an astonishing attack on South Africa?s black elite, including members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), who he says are ”arrogant” and are widening the gap between race groups. In an interview published in a Sunday newspaper, the former president said he was particularly concerned about the growing […]
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/ 11 February 2001
A court recording of former president Nelson Mandela’s last speech before he was sentenced to life imprisonment will on Sunday be released.
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/ 9 February 2001
A PARYS farmer, Chris van Zyl, was this week fined R19 000 for brutally assaulting two Eskom workers by tying them to a motorbike, dragging them around naked, shooting at them and saying, ?I will show you how I will kill kaffirs.? However, magistrate Johan Visagie this week refused to declare Van Zyl unfit to […]
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/ 23 January 2001
2001 is likely to be a watershed year for President Thabo Mbeki and his government to rebuild negative foreign perceptions of South Africa?s economy, with the ANC?s defensive political style contributing strongly to poor foreign direct investment (FDI) figures. This is the view of independent think-tank Business Map, which says bold measures are needed to […]
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/ 30 October 1998
Watching Saturday’s Currie Cup rugby final between Western Province and the Blue Bulls at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria is sure to leave one with the feeling of just alighting from a time machine. The Bulls, or Northern Transvaal as they were then called, and Province last sized each other up in a Currie Cup final […]