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/ 10 December 2001

JAPANESE WOMAN DIES LOOKING FOR FARGO LOOT

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

MARIKE’S SELF-CONFESSED KILLER IN COURT

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

Pretoria, Beijing to sign cooperation agreement

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

SHOOTING IN BLOEM LEAVES THREE DEAD

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

JOE MODISE? THE MAN, THE MONUMENT

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

SA’s ancient Chinese connection

Barry Streek Chinese explorers travelled to Southern Africa 150 years before their European counterparts were able to find a sea route to East Asia, National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala told a conference in Japan this week. The Chinese connection has been demonstrated by a map drawn by Ming cartographer Ch’uan Chin in 1402 at the […]

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/ 7 December 2001

SA’s skills shortage crisis

Immigration legislation needs to be passed urgently to facilitate the flow of finance managers, IT personnel and engineers into the country Glenda Daniels Over the past year South Africa lost more professionals than during any similar period in the past 60 years, according to the South African Institute of Race Relation’s latest report on the […]