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/ 14 November 2003
The Scorpions have moved in on Walter Senoko, the businessman involved in a scandal alongside Mpumalanga public works minister Steve Mabona. The elite investigative unit last week issued a warrant of arrest for Senoko, whose company Positing Corporate Underwriters and Insurance (PCUIC) has had contracts with Mabona’s department.
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/ 14 November 2003
A battered woman who kills her husband while he is sleeping is entitled to argue self-defence — but South Africa’s legal system finds it difficult to accept such an argument. Lawyers defending such women do not use it.
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/ 14 November 2003
West African drug syndicates are running amok in Durban’s Point area and last year alone the area saw an estimated R1,4-billion change hands in narcotics deals, according to a senior criminal investigator.
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/ 14 November 2003
The existence of a new Zimbabwean underground movement prepared to adopt violent tactics to remove the president, Robert Mugabe, was claimed yesterday by the British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
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/ 14 November 2003
Soon after the dust had settled following the attacks on the World Trade Centre, Tony Blair made a pledge to the people of Afghanistan — a country that was about to be attacked by US-led forces.
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/ 14 November 2003
Abdula Yusuf is too afraid to climb the rocky terraces beyond his village and see the damage for himself. ”They’ll kill me,” he said, waving a hand at the container homes on the top of a neighbouring hill. ”If they can do that thing to trees as old as the Roman times, they will not hesitate to do it to me.”
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/ 14 November 2003
Winnie Mitullah was in no mood to take part in this year’s ”Africa University Day” celebration held in Nairobi on Wednesday. She has joined other striking university lecturers in a demand for better pay.
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/ 14 November 2003
Given that books have a certain furtive longevity, one is inclined to ask what these books will say to future generations? Local publishers need to strive for a synthesis between content and form, writes Sean O’Toole.
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/ 14 November 2003
Power, surfing and French knitting: South African sculpture is diverse in the extreme, writes Chris Roper after taking a look at four superb exhibitions in Cape Town that showcase the young guns of South African sculpture.
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/ 14 November 2003
Friday marks the launch of Mafikizolo’s new album, <i>Kwela</i>, at a Durban club, ahead of the Metro FM Music Awards on Saturday November 15. The new album is twice as good as their previous album, <i>Sibongile</i>, writes Joe Makhafola.