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/ 31 January 2003
A man wanted for the 2000 murder of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso, was arrested in Pretoria on Thursday after almost four months on the run, police reported on Friday.
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/ 31 January 2003
The Non-Proliferation Council (NPC) will launch an investigation into attempts by the late General Tai Minnaar to broker the sale of biological organisms developed during South Africa’s apartheid-era biological weapons research programme.
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/ 31 January 2003
Separate attempts by two government departments to deport the alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo are in danger of backfiring. The Cape Town Regional Court this week heard that authorities had discriminated against him. Palazzolo is accused of lying in his citizenship application.
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/ 31 January 2003
<b> CD of the Week</b>:Matchbox Twenty: <i>More Than You Think You Are</i>
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/ 31 January 2003
<b>Movies of the week:</b> Neil Sonnekus reviews a satirical English movie, <i>Once Upon a Time in the Midlands</i>, and a small independent film called <i>Tadpole</i>.
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/ 31 January 2003
Police and members of Cape Town’s gay community now believe the gory massacre at the Sizzlers massage parlour in Sea Point last week was a message from Cape Town gangs who felt their turf was being invaded. The massacre occurred shortly after a bumper tourist festive season.
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/ 31 January 2003
A US judge sentenced Briton Richard Reid — a self-proclaimed disciple of Osama bin Laden — to life imprisonment on Thursday for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoe.
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/ 31 January 2003
The claimants in the Cape plc asbestos litigation in London have reached an agreement with SA mining company Gencor on an amount of compensation, the British legal firm acting for the South African claimants announced on Thursday.
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/ 31 January 2003
The four-year droughts that scorched harvests in Afghanistan, seared the Mediterranean scrub and baked cornfields in the American south-east may have had a common cause, according to US researchers.
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/ 31 January 2003
Microsoft’s protracted regulatory problems in Europe eased yesterday after the firm struck a deal with privacy watchdogs which should quell concerns about its .NET passport online authentication system.