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/ 30 October 2002
Prosecutors are to review a submission by lawyers for Irvin Khoza that tax evasion charges against the soccer boss be withdrawn.
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/ 30 October 2002
Wednesday’s blast at a Buddhist temple in Bronkhorstspruit was caused by a detonator that probably went off after falling out of a bag that contained about 10kg of explosives, police said.
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/ 30 October 2002
Like most countries, America’s collective attention span only really allows for one big story at a time. Until last week the consuming obsession was the hunt for the Washington sniper. Then it was the climax of baseball’s ”world series” (actually a contest between two teams from California).
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/ 29 October 2002
Former Blondie pop star Debbie Harry wishes to be regarded as a conceptual artist. Sabine Durrant shared a gossip session with her.
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/ 29 October 2002
Parliament’s intelligence committee has quietly given the green light to legislation that could send shock waves through the private telecommunications industry. The Electronic Communications Security (Pty) Ltd Bill gives the state sweeping powers.
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/ 29 October 2002
The Central Energy Fund (CEF) is auctioning its contentious research branch, Enerkom, at a fraction of its worth, amid speculation about why the state oil agency wants to get rid of it. The CEF has approached a well-known auction house, Aucor, to sell Enerkom to the highest bidder.
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/ 29 October 2002
Africa has become a prime location for a thriving hunting industry. In Zimbabwe the industry is valued at R240-million, in South Africa at R140-million and in Tanzania at about R100-million.
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/ 29 October 2002
General Francisco Franco’s Spanish dictatorship stole children from the families of his leftwing opponents and gave them to his supporters or sent them to be brought up in convents or monasteries, according to a book published yesterday. “They took my child to baptise him but they never brought him back,” said Emilia Giron (82) whose […]
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/ 29 October 2002
The Democratic Alliance has delayed to next March a Western Cape party conference that is widely expected to oust Gerald Morkel as the party’s provincial leader. The conference, scheduled for November 2, was postponed by unanimous decision of the management committee.