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/ 12 November 2003
Johannesburg socialite Hazel Crane, shot dead in an assassination on Monday, is reported to have left the country at one stage on account of the death threats she was receiving. She also reportedly hired 24-hour security to protect herself. On the day she was murdered, however, her bodyguards were mysteriously absent.
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/ 10 November 2003
Johannesburg socialite Hazel Crane, shot dead on Monday while on her way to court to give testimony against an alleged South Africa-Israeli mafia member, apparently said only last week she feared for her life. This was at the jurisdiction hearing of a diamond dealer accused of battering to death her estranged husband.
Jo’burg socialite killed
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/ 15 October 2003
Ageing anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude and Treatment Action Campaign activist Mark Heywood made a rare appearance at Montecasino on Tuesday night for the
premiership of Oscar-nominated director Robert Bilheimer’s Aids documentary A Closer Walk.
South Africa’s first patented Aids technology which drastically reduces the cost of monitoring the immune levels of Aids patients, could save African economies billions of rands when it is exported globally.
At the recent launch of the ”Racing Against Malaria” Campaign, South Africa’s health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang called on countries in the region to use the much vilified insecticide DDT to combat malaria.
A South African rescue team bound for the icy Antarctic continent will sail from the Port of Cape Town on Sunday in a bid to save 107 people trapped there aboard an ice-bound ship.
South African doctors have seen an ”alarming” increase in the incidence of breast cancer among young black women in the past few years.
Former president Nelson Mandela said on Thursday that while South Africa was in the midst of a serious Aids epidemic, a study he commissioned on HIV prevalence showed changing sexual practices, especially amongst the youth.