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/ 11 November 2001

3 CHILDREN KILLED BY MORTAR SHELL IN ANGOLA

THREE children have been killed in southern Angola after playing with an unexploded mortar shell, a police representative told the Portuguese news agency Lusa on Wednesday. The three children were playing in the southern Angolan city of Lubango, the capital city of Huila province, with an 82-millimetre mortar shell they had found on wasteland in […]

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/ 14 October 2001

SAA SHELLS OUT R1-M FOR STOLEN BAGGAGE

SOUTH African Airways has paid out just over R1-million in 1 283 claims for theft from baggage on the airline’s flights worldwide up to the end of September this year, says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe. Replying to a question by Rudi Heine (DA), he said SAA had paid out R1,832-million in 3 108 claims […]

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/ 28 September 2001

ATTACK AT SHELL TERMINAL CUTS PRODUCTION

ANGLO-Dutch oil group Royal Dutch/Shell has stopped crude oil exports of 27 000 barrels per day following a fire at a terminal. The company shut down its Olomoro flowstation in southern Nigeria on Thursday after militant youths seized the facility, a Shell official said. The official a part of the facility was damaged during the […]

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/ 22 August 2001

Shell mulls energy brick for Africa’s kitchens

Kampala | Wednesday AN official of Royal Dutch/Shell said on Tuesday the company was studying the possibility of making a smokeless energy brick for cooking in African villages to reduce firewood consumption. ”Conceptually we have a solution. The question is to make it affordable,” said Jan Verloop, an executive in the Technology and Innovation Strategy […]

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/ 6 July 2001

They sell seashells on the seashore

They’re probably not aphrodisiacs but oysters are still reason to celebrate Jo-Ann Bekker Growing up inland, my idea of seafood was grilled sole. When someone pulled a mussel off a rock, prised it open and gave it to me to eat, I tried to keep an open mind, but it tasted slimy and horrible. So […]

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/ 1 June 2001

Shell decision ‘a blow to academic freedom’

David Macfarlane Former Rhodes University academic Dr Robert Shell has lost his appeal against his summary dismissal in February on a disciplinary charge. Academics are aghast at how Shell has been treated during the two-year saga, and suggest the fallout from the conflict enshrouds not only Shell and Rhodes, but every academic in the country. […]

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/ 6 April 2001

Charlton ready to shell out for Bartlett

Neal Collins soccer Shaun Bartlett is a wanted man. His second-half wonder goal for Charlton Athletic on Sunday, scored after the Capetonian had made the first goal for Andy Todd in a 2-0 win over lacklustre Leicester, has got boss Alan Curbishley scrambling for his chequebook. The 28-year-old Bafana Bafana striker, with 46 caps and […]

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/ 30 March 2001

Report on Shell is shocking and inaccurate

David Woods RIGHT TO REPLY Try to make sense of this scenario. An employee defames his colleagues, apologises unreservedly, and accepts a warning that, should he do so again, he will face disciplinary action That same employee subsequently repeats the allegations for which he has apologised, defames a senior executive and his employer, and is […]

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/ 5 March 2001

SHELLING SHAKES BURUNDI CAPITAL

HEAVY explosions and the sound of gunfire have echoed over the northern suburbs of Bujumbura, the ninth day of a fierce assault on the Burundian capital by ethnic Hutu rebels. Residents said they had seen armoured vehicles of the Tutsi-led Burundi army advancing on the poor Hutu suburb of Kinama, where FNL (National Liberation Front) […]