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/ 12 December 2001
Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe won a pat on the back on Wednesday from visiting African ministers when they ended talks by backing his land reforms and opposing potential sanctions imposed by the West. Ministers in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ”welcomed the legislative and other mechanisms the government was putting in […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Over the last six months or so, SABC television’s current affairs programmes have been showing encouraging signs of independent thought. This perception was smashed into dust last Sunday when on SABC2’s Newsmaker programme we had to grit our teeth and put up with 15 minutes of Mr McCaps Motimele, the Unisa senior something-or-other who, according […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Kwaito singer and TV star Zola has used his rapid rise to fame to celebrate gangster life in the ghetto, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 11 December 2001
A 19-year-old alleged drug dealer from Cameroon was in critical condition after German police forced him to take an emetic to make him vomit up narcotics he had swallowed. Authorities said the man, who was not identified, had had a heart attack Sunday after being given the herbal emetic Ipecacuanha while in custody. Police later […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Johannesburg | Tuesday HUNDREDS of unidentified and unclaimed corpses have piled up in mortuaries in and around Johannesburg and Pretoria, according to police who say they are forced to give the dead pauper’s burials. “On average 35 to 45 unidentified bodies arrive in the morgues in Gauteng (Province) every day,” police representative Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said […]
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/ 11 December 2001
A ROMAN Catholic priest was gunned down in a township north of Pretoria in a hijacking shortly after he conducted a prayer meeting at a home, a police representative said on Sunday. Father Michael Danucci (60) was overpowered as he left the house at Soshanguve, about 15 kilometres north of the city, Inspector Anton Breedt […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Harare | Tuesday A MEETING of southern African foreign ministers to assess Zimbabwe’s land reforms sharply criticised the West on Monday over attempts to impose sanctions on President Robert Mugabe’s government. “We would like to make it clear that we don’t support sanctions,” said the meeting’s chairwoman, Lilian Patel, Malawi’s foreign minister. Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Bisho | Tuesday AT least 52 initiates were receiving treatment for circumcision complications in hospitals in the Eastern Cape, hospital officials said on Monday. At Hewu Hospital in Whittlesea, 20 young men were being treated, while Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (CMH) in Mdantsane was treating 17. One of the boys was still in the intensive care […]
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/ 11 December 2001
Johannesburg | Tuesday THE proposed merger between New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) and Kagiso Media Limited (Kagiso) has been approved unconditionally by the Competition Commission, it was announced on Monday. Nail is listed on the JSE as a public company and has interests in number of markets including radio broadcasting, print media, and investments. Kagiso […]
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/ 11 December 2001
A R10-million fraud involving some Eastern Cape public works department officials and contractors has been exposed, the department said on Monday. Roads and public works MEC Phumulo Masualle said four department officials, some companies and professional services providers to the department had allegedly been running a fraud network. Four different companies had their contracts with […]