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/ 6 November 2001
ONE of the three children that a 25-year old man shot in Mbalenhle, Mpumalanga before he committed suicide died on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. Captain Sibongile Nkosi said the other two children were still in a critical condition and one had been transferred from Evander Hospital to H.F Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria. Nkosi […]
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/ 6 November 2001
AN American radio correspondent accused of working from his state-owned home in Angola has been acquitted, the Angolan journalists’ trade union SJA said on Tuesday. Legal proceedings were brought against Isidoro Natalicio, the correspondent for Voice of America, by the Angolan authorities, who accused Natalicio of working from home in Cuanza Norte. The Angolan authorities […]
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/ 6 November 2001
THE three flight crew that were killed when a cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at Johannesburg International Airport on Saturday morning have been identified, the Civil Aviation Authority said on Sunday. They are the pilot Eduard Davey (29) Wesley Hampton-Cole (22) and Johannes Heinrich Janik (37) a Namibian citizen. CAA representative Trevor Davids said […]
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/ 6 November 2001
MIKE CRAWLEY, Bujumbura | Tuesday TREES and thick bushes sprout up from the layer of rubble that carpets Burundi’s former presidential palace, a ruined shell amid hotels and office buildings in the centre of the lakeside capital. This is the spot where Burundi’s deadly civil war was triggered in 1993 when ethnic Tutsi soldiers stormed […]
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/ 5 November 2001
Even if this is all Kaolin Thomson is (you might remember her from the band Naked), then it’s still more than many musicians can hope to be. <i>On All I Am</i> (Sheer) she flaunts her music skills to great effect.
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/ 5 November 2001
Over the past two weekends BBC World has been broadcasting a two-part documentary called The Slave Children, inspired by the news, last April, of the ship Etireno, which, for three weeks, had been refused entry to several West African ports because it was believed to be carrying child slaves. It would appear that the local […]
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/ 5 November 2001
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Friday ZIMBABWE’S government on Thursday unveiled the troubled nation’s 2002 annual budget, seen as clearly populist, and admitted it had failed to salvage the crumbling economy. Zimbabwe’s finance minister Simba Makoni painted a bleak picture of Zimbabwe’s economy, predicting another year of economic depression. The economy is expected to shrink 7,3% […]
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/ 5 November 2001
THABO Mbeki will lead a South African delegation to attend the General Debate of the 56th annual Session of the UN General Assembly starting in New York on November 10. Mbeki will be the third speaker to address the General Assembly in his capacity as the chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) behind Brazil and […]
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/ 5 November 2001
PHILIPPE BERNES-LASSERRE, Johannesburg | Monday AFTER three months of hearings, a probe into a stampede at a Johannesburg football stadium has heard an astonishing catalogue of errors, omissions and negligence surrounding the death of 43 spectators. Lack of police co-ordination, security guards taking bribes to allow those without tickets to enter, television cameras blocking ambulances, […]