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/ 14 December 2001
THREE white youngsters and ex-policeman, Eben Kruger, will be sentenced in the so-called ”Parys bashing case” on Thursday, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. The four were found guilty on Wednesday of killing two black people in what was believed to have been a racially motivated killing in Parys, in the northern Free State, in […]
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/ 14 December 2001
POLICE were on Monday investigating the possibility that the nine-year-old girl, whose body was found in a field at Kraaifontein near Cape Town earlier in the afternoon, had been raped. Policeman Wickus Holtzhausen, said the body was discovered in the veld by two bypassers. He said forensic experts were by Monday evening still trying to […]
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/ 14 December 2001
PUTCO will open a full investigation into the crash of one of its buses on the N1 freeway outside Pretoria on Monday afternoon, the company’s managing director Nathi Khena said. His announcement came about three hours after a Putco bus collided head-on with an eight ton truck on the N1 freeway in Pretoria at around […]
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/ 14 December 2001
TRIALISTS of the historic Liliesleaf Rivonia Trial will on Saturday meet in a reunion for the first time in 38 years. Nadine Bainbridge, a representative for the Liliesleaf Rivonia Trialist Reunion organisers, said on Monday the function — at the history-making Rivonia farm — would bring together for the first time all those closely associated […]
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/ 14 December 2001
CLAIRE KEETON, Pretoria | Friday SOUTH Africa’s government must provide HIV treatment to pregnant women to help prevent transmission of the Aids-causing virus to their unborn children, the High Court ruled in Pretoria on Friday. The landmark decision swept aside the official line that such treatment was impracticable, given the scale of the problem in […]
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/ 14 December 2001
TANZANIAN police are holding a South African national who was arrested at the airport here in possession of three kilograms of cocaine, police said on Wednesday. Police named the suspect as Sali Ameen Abdulhack (51) and said he was holding a South African passport. ”The suspect was found with several packets of the drugs in […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Western Cape Premier Peter Marais confirmed that the province will continue to provide ARVs, including nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant women.
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/ 13 December 2001
In 1940 two suspected FBI agents turned up in southern Spain looking for a birth certificate. Could this document have held a secret Walt Disney was desperate to hide? As the Disney corporation celebrates its founder’s centenary, Giles Tremlett visits the town that believes Uncle Walt is one of the family.
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/ 13 December 2001
Kano | Thursday ANGRY Muslims beat to death a Christian truck driver who accidentally reversed his lorry over a copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, witnesses said on Wednesday. The 42-year-old ethnic Igbo driver, locally known by the nickname of Saint Moritz, was reversing in a well-known fruit market in the northern city […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s labour legislation, coupled with the lack of skills among the majority of prospective employees, were responsible for the rising tide of unemployment, according to the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). In its 55th annual South Africa survey released in Johannesburg on Wednesday, SAIRR said the current 26 percent unemployment […]