Staff Reporter
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/ 18 September 2000

Journalists face genocide charges

GODFREY MUTIZWA, Nairobi | Monday THREE Rwandan journalists accused of inciting the genocide of up to 800 000 people in Rwanda in 1994 go on trial in a UN court this week on charges of conspiracy and incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity. Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza was director of public affairs in the Rwandan […]

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/ 18 September 2000

Mbeki plasters over alliance cracks

OWN CORRESPONDENT and REUTERS, Johannesburg | Monday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has played down tensions between labour federation Cosatu and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in the opening address at Cosatu’s annual congress, where ”serious policy differences” between government and the unions are expected to emerge. Addressing the delegates in Midrand, he instead joked about […]

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/ 18 September 2000

IVORY COAST’S GUEI ESCAPES DEATH

ARMED assailants managed to get into the home of Ivory Coast’s military ruler, General Robert Guei, in the early hours of Monday, but Guei was still alive, a senior military source said. The attackers had forced the driver of an armoured car stationed near the residence to drive into the gates to break them down […]

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/ 18 September 2000

RAND HITS RECORD LOW

THE rand has hit a historic low of R7,2450 to the US dollar, a fall that driven by weakness in the euro. Dealers said offshore and local banks that continued to offload large amounts of rands exacerbated the slide. Another increase in crude oil prices to $36 a barrel drove the dollar firmer against all […]

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/ 17 September 2000

SA pull off shock win over Brazil

OWN CORRESPONDENT and AFP, Sydney | Sunday SOUTH Africa has produced a major upset, shocking Brazil 3-1, to draw level on points with the South Americans in Group D of the Olympic men’s football tournament. Substitute Siyabonga Nomvethe, who missed a string of chances in last Thursday’s defeat at the hands of Japan, rose to […]

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/ 17 September 2000

Nigerian prostitutes paid to stop hooking

AFP, Gusau, Nigeria | Saturday THE governor of a Nigerian state where strict Islamic law against prostitution and other vices has been introduced has distributed more than $400000 to prostitutes to discourage them from soliciting. Northwestern Sokoto state governor Attahiru Bafarawa said the amount, distributed to more than 100 beneficiaries, was part of efforts to […]

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/ 17 September 2000

Mugabe grabs prime Anglo estates

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe’s government has announced that it is to grab another 57 white-owned farms, including large chunks of two of Anglo American’s most intensive sugar and citrus estates – ignoring assurances that it will seize only properties that are under-utilised and which are part of multiple holdings. Notices […]

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/ 17 September 2000

JACOB ZUMA MEETS BURUNDI REBEL GROUP

SOUTH Africa’s Deputy President Jacob Zuma is to hold a second day of talks with members of a main Hutu rebel group in Burundi to discuss ending the seven-year armed conflict. Zuma met a delegation from the National Liberation Forces (FNL) in Pretoria to discuss a ceasefire agreement. A source close to the negotiations said […]

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/ 17 September 2000

FOUR CHARGED WITH KEEPING TEEN SEX SLAVE

A SOLDIER, airman and two policemen appeared in the Hoedspruit Periodical Court in Northern Province in connection with keeping a teenager as a sex slave for six months. Corporal Benzion Polonksky (27) of the Hoedspruit army base, Corporal Carl Joubert (26) of Hoedspruit air base and Constables Cornelius Lourens (25) and Nicholas Wolmarans (26) of […]

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/ 17 September 2000

Foot and mouth: EU ban looms

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday SOUTH Africa’s agricultural trade faces an “immediate and devastating” embargo from foreign markets after the first outbreak of foot and mouth disease outside the Kruger National Park since 1956 was reported on a pig farm near Pietermaritzburg. The Camperdown farm where the outbreak was reported and surrounding farms have been […]