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/ 27 January 2003
Seventy people were killed when two buses collided on the main road linking the Cameroonian capital Yaounde to the main port Douala, hospital sources said on Monday.
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/ 27 January 2003
The Ethiopian government has hit back at claims that it is trying to push through draconian press laws aimed at restricting the country’s fledgling media.
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/ 27 January 2003
Two more men have been arrested in connection with last week’s attack which claimed the life of KwaZulu-Natal social welfare MEC Prince Gideon Zulu’s son, police said on Monday.
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/ 27 January 2003
Five foreigners suspected of being undercover journalists reporting on Zimbabwe’s hunger crisis have been picked up for questioning by police, representative Wayne Bvudzijena said on Sunday.
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/ 27 January 2003
Affluent Asian couples finding it tough to make babies will soon get help from a Singaporean ”sex guru” offering a novel program to ease a severe decline in the island’s fertility rates.
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/ 27 January 2003
The South African wine industry is gearing up for this year’s 29th Nederburg Auction, its most prestigious event of the year.
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/ 27 January 2003
President Thabo Mbeki is to hold bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on February 1 in the United Kingdom as part of efforts to avert war in Iraq.
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/ 27 January 2003
The sole surviving victim of the massacre at a gay brothel in Cape Town last week, was in a stable condition in the Groote Schuur Hospital on Monday, a hospital official said.
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/ 27 January 2003
Southern Cape police warned the public against mob justice on Sunday following an incident on Saturday where police were stoned after arresting a man the mob wanted to be handed over to them.
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/ 27 January 2003
More than 20 000 township bondholders have fallen into bond repayment arrears since 1997 — but no mechanism exists for dealing with their plight, according to Servcon Housing Solutions MD Manye Moroka. Moroka said Servcon had resolved half the 33 000 bond default cases referred to it.