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/ 30 November 2001
LUKE HARDING near Mazar-i-Sharif, NICHOLAS WATT, BRIAN WHITAKER and agencies | Friday MULLAH Faizal, the most senior Taliban leader left in northern Afghanistan, swept out of the beleaguered city of Kunduz on Wednesday night in a convoy of mud-encrusted battle cruisers crammed with 50 heavily armed Taliban fighters. He arrived at 10pm for talks with […]
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/ 30 November 2001
SIAMESE twins were born in the Port Elizabeth provincial hospital on Wednesday, SABC television news reported. The public broadcaster said the twins were flown to Cape Town for further examination. They are joined at the waist, and a Livingstone hospital paediatrician was quoted saying the twins have separate organs. The exact cause of this kind […]
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/ 30 November 2001
A PORT Nolloth man is expected to appear in a local magistrate’s court on Wednesday for allegedly raping a two-and-half-year old baby, Northern Cape police said. Superintendent Hendrik Swart said on Tuesday the police expected the community to stage a protest outside the court building in Port Nolloth, Namaqualand. SABC radio news earlier reported that […]
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/ 30 November 2001
OLA AWONIYI, Abuja | Thursday THE Nigerian government on Wednesday sold a $1,3-billion 51% majority stake in its telecoms firm Nitel to a consortium led by a subsidiary of Portugal Telecom. Sealing Africa’s largest ever privatisation, Vice President Atiku Abubakar and government officials signed a series of documents with the Portuguese-led group, International Investors of […]
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/ 30 November 2001
THE Nigerian government said Wednesday it signed a major deepwater oil production sharing accord with several foreign companies. The agreement is the first to be signed between state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and oil prospecting companies since Nigeria’s deepwater concessions were allocated last year via an open bid system, it said. The production sharing accord […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Kabul | Tuesday HUNDREDS of US Marines backed by US air power were poised on Tuesday to move in for the kill on the last major pocket of Taliban resistance and the forces of terror suspect Osama bin Laden. The US move came as American warplanes and troops of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance struggled for […]
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/ 29 November 2001
The Good Food and Wine show at the Sandton Convention Centre at the weekend showed the ugly face of Johannesburg food — a sort of culinary Rand Show, writes Matthew Burbidge.
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/ 29 November 2001
Estelle Kokot is ready to roll and do what she does best in her public life, writes Paul Boekkooi.
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/ 29 November 2001
The UN estimates that five million people became infected with HIV this year and that worldwide 40-million people are living with the virus.
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/ 29 November 2001
Belgian brewer Interbrew said on Wednesday it had carried out an initial study of its rival South African Breweries but added that the parties had not discussed a possible Interbrew takeover. An Interbrew statement said the company had conducted a “preliminary analysis” that it described as a routine practice to assess global brewing groups. It […]