Staff Reporter
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/ 30 November 1999

PROSTITUTES PROTEST CONDOM SHORTAGE

THE Northern Province’s health department ordered its regional hospitals on Monday to immediately restock rural clinics with condoms after prostitutes in the area complained of shortages. The prostitutes complained that clinics ran out of condoms over a month ago, forcing sex workers to ply their trade on the busy N1 highway to Zimbabwe without any […]

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/ 30 November 1999

ENRAGED MOB FORCES POLICE STATION SHUTDOWN

EAST London police fired stun grenades and teargas as they raced a colleague to safety last night in an armoured personnel carrier under a hail of bricks and stones from a 300-strong mob baying for his blood. They were also forced to shut down a satellite police station indefinitely, after enraged Pefferville residents smashed windscreens […]

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/ 30 November 1999

Loop the loop in Swaziland

Although local is lekker (and cheaper), almost local can be just as lekker. Swaziland might be just a trip across the border, but it’s a whole new world. There is something in the clear mountain air of Swaziland that makes you forget South Africa is only a heartbeat away.

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/ 30 November 1999

POST OFFICE RENTALS TO RISE

RENTALS for the more than 3,5-million postboxes in South Africa will increase by an average 10% next year, the Post Office announced on Monday. Albert Michau, senior general manager for financial services, said the rental for a small postbox will increase by R10 to R130 with the rental being payable by January 1 2000, he […]

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/ 30 November 1999

ENGLAND RESTS KEY PLAYERS

FORMER captain Alec Stewart is to captain England in their one-day spell against a Gauteng XI in Lenasia on Wednesday. Nottingham’s Chris Read takes over the gloves for the first time on tour. The tourists have rested six of their key players with Darren Maddy expected to open the innings with regular Mark Butcher in […]

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/ 30 November 1999

Police warn of more bombs as tourists waver

OWN CORRESPONDENT, cape Town | Tuesday 8.30pm. POLICE warned Capetonians on Tuesday to expect more terror attacks following Sunday’s blast at St Elmos pizzeria in Camps Bay, while tourism officials said foreigners had begun cancelling plans to visit the city. Justice Minister Penuell Maduna meanwhile vowed that the culprits of the pipe-bomb explosion which injured […]

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/ 30 November 1999

E AFRICAN COMMUNITY TREATY LAUNCHED

THE presidents of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania took another key step towards establishing a regional common market when they launched the East African Community on Tuesday. The East African Community treaty aims to create a free trade area in East Africa and to allow freedom of movement across borders for nationals of the three countries. […]

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/ 30 November 1999

Jayasuriya sends Zimbabwe spinning

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 6.00pm. SRI Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya snapped up four wickets in 15 balls as his team won the second test against Zimbabwe by six wickets on the fifth and final day on Tuesday. Jayasuriya’s left-arm spin polished off Zimbabwe’s second innings for 292 immediatly before lunch, the last four wickets […]