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/ 25 October 2001
Makurdi, Nigeria | Thursday RAMPAGING soldiers continued reprisal attacks on Wednesday in some parts of Nigeria’s central Benue State, where they have already killed more than 100 people, a leading government official said. The attacks focused on the town of Zaki Biam, from where 19 soldiers were abducted and subsequently slain by militiamen two weeks […]
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/ 25 October 2001
Washington | Wednesday THE probability of the US economy tumbling into recession sharply increased in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, but a rebound is likely in 2002, the White House chief economic adviser said this week. The US economy is likely to contract slightly, Glenn Hubbard told reporters, noting that “even a fairly […]
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/ 25 October 2001
Mbabane | Thursday A SWAZILAND minister on Wednesday condoned a police break-up of an opposition news conference in the small mountain kingdom last week, saying the meeting had presented a threat to state security. Speaking at a function to commemorate the 89th birthday of the United Nations, Trade and Foreign Minister Abednego Ntshangase said government […]
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/ 25 October 2001
Cape Town, Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday said he had discovered on the Internet that anti-retroviral drugs are as dangerous as Aids. ”There are new guidelines that anti-retrovirals are becoming as dangerous to health as the disease they are suppose to treat,” Mbeki told the National Assembly. He said he […]
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/ 25 October 2001
Johannesburg | Wednesday WATER Affairs Minister Ronnie Kasrils was uninformed about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and was using his Jewish background to give credibility to the ANC’s pro-Palestinian stance, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies said on Wednesday. SAJBD chairman Russell Gaddin said in a statement he was not prepared to debate the issues with Kasrils […]
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/ 25 October 2001
Cape Town | Thursday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki would meet Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi this week over his ongoing battle with his director-general Billy Masetlha, according to the presidency. ”The president is dealing with the matter. He plans to meet Chief Buthelezi this week,” presidential representative Bheki Khumalo said. He declined to elaborate. On Tuesday, […]
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/ 24 October 2001
In her keynote address at last week’s Arts & Culture Trust Awards, Marilyn Martin examined what contribution South Africans can make to culture, here and abroad, and what the obstacles are in the way of such an achievement.
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/ 24 October 2001
After its pre-opening teasers, the Joubert Park Public Art Project 2001 (JPP) is finally open, writes Robyn Sassen.
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/ 24 October 2001
VS Naipaul won the Nobel Prize for Literature this month. But how good is his latest book? And why is he denouncing other writers? Paul Theroux has some insights.
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/ 24 October 2001
Pretoria | Wednesday WHILE a situation of total chaos prevailed at the Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg on the night 43 people were killed in a stampede, security co-ordinators struggled for almost half an hour to get hold of the public order police (POP), the inquiry into the disaster heard on Wednesday. At 7.30pm on […]