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/ 1 August 2001

Mammoth treason trial starts in Namibia

WERNER MENGES, Windhoek | Wednesday THE 125 men accused of high treason and other alleged offences in what is set to be Namibia’s biggest trial since Independence are set to appear in the High Court at Grootfontein tomorrow, with the ranks of their defence lawyers now reduced to one solitary attorney. Tsumeb attorney Chris van […]

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/ 1 August 2001

LION STILL KING OF MPUMA JUNGLE

MPUMALANGAs renegade lion almost caused a pile-up on the N4 highway just outside the provincial capital Nelspruit on Monday night when it dashed across the busy road. Shaken motorists called the local radio station from the scene, describing how the young male lion casually loped across the double-carriage motorway at 8pm before disappearing into orange […]

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/ 1 August 2001

Court rules media do not have to release videos

Cape Town | Wednesday A JUDGE on Tuesday ruled that an English court order forcing foreign journalists in South Africa to hand over video footage of a vigilante lynching was invalid. Cape Town High Court Judge Jeannette Traverso found that international news agencies Reuters and Associated Press (AP) did not have to submit video footage […]

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/ 31 July 2001

ZAMBIA TO REFORM TAX FOR GROWTH

ZAMBIA plans to reform its tax system in a bid to stimulate economic growth and development, the finance ministry announced on Monday. A ministry statement said the tax reforms would be implemented as part of next year’s national budget. “The objective of the tax reform is to build a modern tax system that is conducive […]

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/ 31 July 2001

US PLANE VANISHES IN ANGOLA

A PRIVATE US surveillance airplane has been missing in Angola since 16 July, according to a report by Voice of America (VOA) on Friday. A spokesperson for the Florida-based firm Airscan was quoted by VOA as saying that one of its twin-engine Cessna 337s went missing on a night-time surveillance mission near Soyo, in the […]

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/ 31 July 2001

SUNSTROKE KILLS OVER 40 IN SUDANESE CITY

MORE than 40 people have died of sunstroke after temperatures soared in Port Sudan on the Red Sea in recent days, a Sudanese press report said Tuesday. The independent Akhbar Al Youm daily said the port city is experiencing its most intense heat wave in 10 years, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). […]