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/ 1 November 2001
The Kora All Africa Music Awards could be good for local music — if we knew how to exploit them, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 1 November 2001
The 27-year-old daughter of a Malian diplomat has left Angelique Kidjo, Youssou N’dour and Salif Keita gasping for breath, writes Valentine Cascarino.
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/ 1 November 2001
PEDZISAI RUHANYA, Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE’S Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Christopher Mushowe, has acquired a masters degree in Public Administration, but he failed the exam. High Court judge Elizabeth Gwaunza slammed the vice-chancellor of the University of the Zimbabwe, Professor Graham Hill, for awarding Mushowe a pass mark, even though he failed the […]
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/ 1 November 2001
THE Nigerian government on Wednesday decided that the country’s budget for 2002 should be based on a price of $18 per barrel of crude oil, as against $22 for the current year, a minister said. The government plans to spend about 843-billion naira ($7,5-billion) in 2002, with capital expenditure accounting for 414 billion naira ($3,7-billion), […]
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/ 1 November 2001
Paris | Thursday REFUGEES and farmers struggling to survive in a parched climate may one day bless a Namibian desert beetle which collects droplets of fog on its back in order to survive. The tenebrionid beetle thrives in one of the most hellish places on Earth thanks to microscopic bumps and troughs on its back, […]
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/ 1 November 2001
Cape Town | Thursday AN application that the trial of five Pagad members for the murder of Cape ganglord Rashaad Staggie be declared a mistrial will continue in the Cape High Court on Thursday, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Defence lawyers for the five members of People Against Drugs and Gangsterism (Pagad) asked presiding […]
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/ 1 November 2001
BEN MACLENNAN, ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Thursday IN a day of high political drama, Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel was suspended from the New National Party on Wednesday after speaking out against its ”reckless and self-destructive” decision to leave the Democratic Alliance and co-operate with the African National Congress. On Wednesday night he was […]
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/ 1 November 2001
Former president Nelson Mandela made a strong plea for world peace after receiving the Newsmaker of the Decade award.
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/ 31 October 2001
MOZAMBIQUE’S main international partners have pledged a total of $722-million in aid for the southern African state in the fiscal year 2002, the World Bank said on Saturday. A press release issued by the World Bank after two days of consultative talks with the Mozambican government said the aid package is aimed at supporting the […]
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/ 31 October 2001
SIX staff members at the US consulate general in Durban, South Africa, were taken to a hospital for tests after an anthrax scare Tuesday, said public relations officer Amelia Broderick. She said the secretary to consul general Craig Kuehl opened a typed envelope, addressed to the consulate general, which contained “an unidentified white powder”. “We […]