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/ 30 November 2002

No sex please, we’re Muslim

If Nigerian newspaper ThisDay is thinking of entering the South African breaking-news market, it’ll have to get someone on the ball to run its website. The paper’s offices were firebombed last Thursday, a fact that the site neglected to mention in its Friday edition. The website also failed to mention the riots that swept through the town of Kaduna last Thursday, in which more than 100 people were said to have been killed.

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/ 30 November 2002

What went wrong?

The rumour mill has been working overtime during the past three weeks as Wits University employees, journalists and everyone else who can cadge some media space try to figure out what has been going on at the topmost levels of one of this country’s academic showpieces.

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/ 30 November 2002

Grim findings

Two-thirds of the 10-million people with HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa are women and girls between the ages of 15 and 24 who are going to die, says United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, Stephen Lewis, reviewing the latest figures on HIV/Aids by the UN and the World Health Organisation.