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/ 26 July 2001

Mugabe gives the BBC the boot

Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE has suspended accreditation of BBC journalists seeking to cover events in the country, accusing them of unethical and unprofessional conduct, the state-run Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. The daily quoted a letter from Information Minister Jonathan Moyo to the BBC’s bureau chief in neighbouring South Africa saying that the measure was […]

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/ 26 July 2001

SirCam ‘worm’ causes havoc in Zim

THOMAS DEVE, Harare | Thursday A DEADLY computer virus has run amok in Zimbabwe, hitting possibly hundreds of unsuspecting e-mail subscribers. One of the worst hit companies is The Daily News. The newspapers main e-mail address was yesterday bombarded with hundreds of messages carrying a computer virus that steals documents from a users files or […]

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/ 26 July 2001

SA coal miners strike, gold miners talk

SUE THOMAS, Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH African coal miners declared a strike at three pits on Wednesday as gold miners geared up for talks on a proposed work stoppage and striking power workers mulled settlement proposals from utility Eskom. Another strike loomed at the giant iron and steel group Iscor, where steel workers have signalled […]

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/ 24 July 2001

S LEONE REBELS SHAKEN BY OFFICIAL?S DEATH

THE death of the secretary-general of Sierra Leone’s rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF), Solomon Rogers, in jail has been received “badly” by members, the chairman of the RUF’s peace council Omrie Golley said on Monday. “His death was received by all in the RUF pretty badly. At this point in time there are a lot […]

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/ 24 July 2001

ZIMBABWE FACES GRAVE CRISIS

FACED with a crisis situation in which grief-stricken mourners were being asked to dig graves for their dead relatives because of a strike by grave-diggers, the Harare City Council yesterday engaged casual workers. The council also enlisted 18 members of the municipal police to assist the casual workers to dig graves at Granville Cemetery in […]

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/ 24 July 2001

Welcome to SA – now die

Lagos | Tuesday NIGERIAS national Tae Kwan Do coach Yusuf Yahaya took ill on a South African flight and died after he was refused hospitalisation in Johannesburg because he lacked an entry visa for South Africa, officials said on Monday. Yahaya was returning to Nigeria with the national Tae Kwan Do team aboard a South […]