Staff Reporter
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/ 9 February 1999

HIV VACCINE TRIALS IN UGANDA

UGANDA will on Monday begin the first HIV vaccine trials in Africa, the state-owned Sunday Vision newspaper reports. Ugandan health director general Kihumoro Apuuli said that 40 low-risk volunteers aged between 18 and 40 will be involved in the first two-year phase of the study. The volunteers will be used to test the efficacy of […]

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/ 9 February 1999

NIGERIAN COPS SEIZE MAGAZINE

NIGERIAN police have seized 80000 copies of a Nigerian magazine that promised revelations on corruption under the last military regime, and have arrested a company official, the magazine said in a statement on Sunday. Police on Saturday night seized the entire print run for the western and southern region of the weekly magazine The News, […]

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/ 9 February 1999

RIFT VALLEY FEVER IN MPUMA

THREE veterinary officials in Mpumalanga have contracted Rift Valley fever after doing autopsies on infected animals in the Kruger National Park and adjoining game reserves, the Mpumalanga health department said on Tuesday. Communicable disease control consultant Dr David Durrheim said the rainfall in the province and growth of the mosquito population has caused the outbreak, […]

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/ 9 February 1999

MTOLO SHOOTS HIMSELF IN FOOT

FORMER South African and New York marathon champion Willie Mtolo accidentally shot himself in the foot while hunting last week and will not race in the Old Mutual South African Marathon Championships later this month, KwaZulu-Natal Athletics said on Monday. Spokesperson Tim Whitfield said Mtolo was hunting on his KwaZulu-Natal midlands farm last Thursday when […]

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/ 9 February 1999

MORE ‘CRACK RING’ ARRESTS SOON

NORTHERN Province police, who believe they have cracked a major cocaine smuggling ring, expect to make additional arrests in Johannesburg soon. Police spokesperson Ronel Otto said on Sunday investigators will follow leads in Johannesburg this week. The investigation follows the arrest of a Nigerian, Augustine Zukora (41), who is believed to be the biggest crack […]

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/ 9 February 1999

Kiwi teams are Super 12 danger — Teichmann

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.00pm. NEW ZEALAND rugby teams the Otago Highlanders and the Wellington Hurricanes are the danger sides in the Super 12, said the captain of the most successful South African side in the competition, Sharks skipper Gary Teichmann. Speaking at the launch of the regional tournament in Johannesburg Monday, Teichmann said […]

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/ 9 February 1999

UK HONOURS AFRICAN LEADERS

THREE African leaders who lived in London between the 1920s and 1940s are to be honoured by English Heritage, a government historical agency. Plaques will be placed outside the houses in which the late presidents Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia resided in the British capital. […]

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/ 9 February 1999

‘OFF WITH THEIR EARS’

PAN African Congress leader Stanley Mogoba called on Monday for criminals to be punished by amputation. In a three-page letter to the media, Mogoba said the country must fight criminals “with all that it takes”. He wrote: “We must knock them on the head, cut off their ears, legs or whatever is the offending part […]

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/ 9 February 1999

M-NET/WARNER DEAL

PAY television provider M-Net has signed a multimillion-rand deal with Warner Brothers International for movie output. Warner is the largest distributor of programming content in the world. The deal is claimed to reaffirm M-Net’s status as one of only three broadcasters in the world with exclusive movie output deals with the major studios, including Disney, […]

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/ 9 February 1999

GLOBALSTAR EARTH STATION

GLOBALSTAR, the global satellite communication group, has completed an earth station worth R150-million in North-West province ahead of the launch of its 48 satellites designed to provide global telecommunication coverage. The firm plans to begin offering services later this year in partnership with Vodacom. The service will be only the second global telecommunications service available […]