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/ 16 November 2001

‘BURNING HANDS’ CASE SCHEDULED

THE trial of two men charged with burning school children’s hands at the Pretoria International Show in August will be heard in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on January 29 and 30 next year, a court official said on Tuesday. The trial date was set when the two men, Pieter Lamprecht (19) and Antonie du Plessis […]

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/ 16 November 2001

POLICEMAN KILLS FAMILY, THEN HIMSELF

A POLICE station commissioner shot his wife and three children to death before turning the gun on himself at their home in Jansenville in Uitenhage on Tuesday morning. Eastern Cape police spokeswoman Michelle Kleinhans said Captain Andries Japhta (34) shot dead his wife Helen (31) and their three children Anatacia (11) Ezrah (6) and Delano […]

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/ 16 November 2001

RUGBY REF FOUND IN WATERY GRAVE

THE body of rugby referee Carl Spannenberg, who went missing and was presumed to have drowned at Cape Town’s Zeekoevlei dam, was recovered from the dam on Wednesday, police reported. Captain Andre Traut said Spannenberg’s (33) body had surfaced and was noticed by the divers as they resumed their search at 8am. Spannenberg went missing […]

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/ 16 November 2001

TEACHER CHARGED WITH INDECENT ASSAULT

A 28-year-old teacher appeared in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday hours after being arrested in connection with the indecent assault of a pupil in March, East Rand police said. Inspector Joep Joubert said the teacher was arrested after a 12-year-old girl filed a complaint. The Child Protection Unit was still investigating the matter. Joubert […]

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/ 15 November 2001

Pall of death hangs over sodden Algeria

Algiers | Thursday RESCUE workers on Wednesday pulled dozens more corpses from mounds of rubble and mud in Algiers, where hundreds of people were still missing after storms turned part of the seaside city into a graveyard. Officials said 651 died from weekend storms across the country, 604 of whom lived in Algiers, where a […]

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/ 15 November 2001

Nigeria approves $237-million power contracts

Abuja | Thursday THE Nigerian government on Wednesday approved more than $237-million worth of new power transmission projects, the information minister announced. Information Minister Jerry Gana told journalists the projects would improve power supply across the country. The projects will enhance the existing 330 KW and 132 KW networks of the national grid, an official […]