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/ 30 October 2001
Johannesburg | Tuesday JUBILEE SA on Monday reiterated its call for the cancellation of debts incurred by the apartheid government, following reports that Switzerland entered into a bilateral agreement with South Africa in 1986. According to weekend reports in Switzerland, apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson collaborated with former Swiss secret service […]
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/ 30 October 2001
Cape Town | Tuesday FINANCE Minister Trevor Manuel will unveil the Treasury’s three-year spending plans on Tuesday in his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). It is expected to include lower economic growth forecasts, and a new set of inflation targets for post 2002. The SA Revenue Service (Sars) is tipped to again outstrip its […]
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/ 30 October 2001
Islamabad | Friday HEAVY US bombing of Kabul on Friday left two young girls dead in a village near the city’s airport and destroyed two Red Cross warehouses. Taliban officials claim over 1 000 civilians have died since US airstrikes began on October 7 but only a handful have been confirmed independently. Following is a […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Ten New Songs (Columbia) is Leonard Cohen’s first collection of new material in nine years; the man is not garrulous. And he seems to have slowed down to a crawl — the result of all that Zen meditation? This is one for very late at night, or you may become impatient.
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/ 29 October 2001
Achmat Dangor, whose new novel has just come out, speaks to Shaun de Waal.
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/ 29 October 2001
The food of the Hare Krishna movement is reliably good, always fresh and surprisingly cheap writes Lauren Shantall.
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/ 29 October 2001
Chief mediator in the Burundi peace process, Nelson Mandela, has called on international donors to double to $880-million the amount of aid they pledged to Burundi.
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/ 29 October 2001
ZIMBABWEAN health staff have begun a mass anthrax campaign after at least 15 people contracted the disease in central Zimbabwe, apparently after butchering infected cows. Local media said the latest outbreak was first noticed in cattle in early October, with the first human case reported on October 20. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said a “massive […]
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/ 29 October 2001
A FIRST contingent of South African soldiers taking part in a multi-national force to protect exiled political leaders returning to Burundi arrived in Bujumbura on Sunday. The soldiers, dressed in full combat gear, arrived in the Burundian capital at 2:00 pm local time after a three-hour flight from the Waterkloof military base near Pretoria. The […]