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/ 10 December 2001
THE mother of prime terror suspect Osama bin Laden said in remarks published on Saturday that she was not angry with her son though she does not approve the ”ambitions, ideas and actions attributed to him.” ”I do not approve the ambitions, ideas and actions attributed to him. But I deny what was attributed to […]
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/ 10 December 2001
AMINU ABUBAKAR, Tungar Tudu, Nigeria | Monday SAFIYA Husaini, a 35-year-old Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning, has led a harsh life, from marriage at 12 to a sentence of death which she says is due to rape. Born the fifth of 12 children to a farmer and illiterate herbal doctor in a remote […]
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/ 10 December 2001
A JAPANESE woman who apparently set out to find one million dollars in ransom money depicted in the hit comedy-thriller ”Fargo” may have died from exposure, Japanese media said on Monday. The body of the woman, a resident of Tokyo, was found in the Detroit Lakes area of Minnesota on November 15, Jiji Press said, […]
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/ 10 December 2001
A SECURICOR Gray worker is expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of killing former first lady Marike de Klerk. De Klerk (64) was found dead at her luxury apartment on the Cape West Coast last week on Tuesday, and was buried in Pretoria on Saturday. The suspect (21) […]
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/ 10 December 2001
Beijing | Monday CHINA and South Africa will launch a new forum for dialogue on relations during the ongoing three-day visit by South African President Thabo Mbeki, state press said on Monday. Mbeki, the first South African president to visit China since diplomatic ties between the two countries were established in 1998, will jointly inaugurate […]
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/ 10 December 2001
THREE people were killed outside the Arthur Nathan municipal pool in Bloemfontein during a shooting over the weekend, Free State police said on Monday. Captain Ernest Mayiki said a man shot dead a woman soon after they got out of a taxi around 7.30pm on Sunday. A second man was wounded when he intervened. During […]
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/ 10 December 2001
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki on Saturday said the government would build a monument in honour of the late Joe Modise and in commemoration of his contribution to South Africa. ”We will build a monument to him. He will be a visible particle in our continuous movement towards the unfathomable eternity of the evolution of the earth, […]
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/ 7 December 2001
This is a film of bracing high seriousness and amplitude, with a literate sense of history and place, writes Peter Bradshaw.
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/ 7 December 2001
It’s a shrewd business decision on Zola’s part to play on the glamorous criminal romance of his <i>Yizo Yizo</i> character to promote his music, but for health’s sake he should see a psychiatrist, writes Mduduzi Dlamini.
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/ 7 December 2001
After eight years of providing a platform for jazz musicians, the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Music Festival has formed a jazz label, Joy Of Jazz, through Bula Music, writes Thebe Mabanga.