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/ 15 November 2002
James William Kilgore, the United States fugitive who was arrested in Cape Town, was nailed because he remained in contact with people from his past. Kilgore, who has been working as a researcher, was sought by the FBI for nearly 27 years.
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/ 15 November 2002
The South African government, especially Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, was noticeably absent at the first African regional Aids conference that kicked off in Botswana this week.
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/ 15 November 2002
The swish of long grass and the twittering of birds are complemented by the song and laughter of a group of grass collectors in rural Mpumalanga. They spend the cooler morning hours gathering long grass from the veld.
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/ 15 November 2002
Oom Krisjan is a regular recipient of important Western Cape government information via e-mail. This week his attention was drawn to one particular missive from provincial Housing MEC Nomatyala Hangana.
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/ 15 November 2002
Five of the six people accused of murdering Mozambique’s best-known journalist, Carlos Cardoso, go on trial before the Maputo City Court on Monday. The trial begins almost exactly two years after Cardoso was gunned down on a central Maputo street on November 22 2000.
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/ 15 November 2002
Breeders of ”canned lions” in the Free State are brazenly advertising what must be the biggest sell-off of endangered and exotic big cats in captivity that the world has seen to date. Six breeders are auctioning more than 84 big cats, including lionesses that are pregnant.
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/ 15 November 2002
Cricket World Cup spectators beware! Closed-circuit television cameras may sniff you out and criminal courts penalise you if you wear T-shirts with logos of the wrong soft-drink company.
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/ 15 November 2002
One of the spin-offs of the ongoing convulsion within the ruling tripartite alliance has been to highlight the two most popular pet subjects of post-apartheid South Africa. The first is that the ”African National Congress project has been exhausted”.
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/ 15 November 2002
Parliament’s watchdog on government spending, the public accounts committee, has effectively passed on financial oversight of the intelligence sector to the joint standing committee on intelligence, which as a rule sits behind closed doors.
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/ 15 November 2002
Questions were raised about the performance of embattled Wits University vice-chancellor Norma Reid Birley months before this week’s council decision to probe her conduct, well-placed university sources said on Thursday.