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/ 17 October 2001
Pretoria | Wednesday THE Pretoria High Court on Wednesday partially turned down an application by former national cricket captain Hansie Cronje to overturn a life ban imposed on him by the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA). The UCBSA imposed the ban on Cronje in November last year after his involvement in matchfixing surfaced. […]
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/ 17 October 2001
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo has set up a committee on human trafficking tasked with repatriating Nigerian victims of the illegal business. The six-man committee, headed by deputy justice minister Musa Elayo Abdulahi, will also ensure the prosecution of all suspected and arrested human traffickers, Mike Mku told a Senate public hearing on child slavery and […]
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/ 17 October 2001
THE search and rescue operation to find nine crew members from a capsized fishing trawler off St Francis Bay on the Eastern Cape coast was to resume on Wednesday morning after poor weather conditions and bad visibility hampered earlier rescue efforts. The Southern Reaper, with a crew of 19, overturned in heavy seas on Tuesday […]
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/ 17 October 2001
Jalalabad, Kabul | Wednesday FIFTEEN people have been killed by the United States when bombs destroyed a mosque and surrounding houses in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, the Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistan told a press conference on Thursday. ”In this mosque which was demolished by a US attack 15 people have reported to have […]
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/ 16 October 2001
From Cameroon this week, news of the death of one of Africa’s foremost writers, Mongo Beti (born 1932), writes Chris Dunton.
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/ 16 October 2001
The finalists in the English and Afrikaans categories of the M-Net Book Prize — South Africa’s most lucrative prize for works of fiction — have been announced.
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/ 16 October 2001
There is a much-vaunted theory that suggests rock and pop music is dumbing down. American alternative rock has replaced Nirvana’s existential loathing with Limp Bizkit’s knuckleheaded "sports metal" and the Bloodhound Gang, whose most recent album was called <i>Hooray for Boobies</i>.
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/ 16 October 2001
A WOMAN died on Friday in northern Egypt at the age of 137, according to local authorities, thus laying claim to having been the world’s longest-living person. Amina Hassabo, who died in a village in the Daquahliya governate in the Nile delta was born in 1864, according to government services. According to the Al-Wafd daily, […]
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/ 16 October 2001
Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH African farmers opposed to the repatriation of some 15 000 Zimbabwean farm workers reached an out-of-court settlement with the government on Monday, giving the workers a temporary reprieve. The farmers filed for an urgent interdict in the Pretoria High Court to prevent the country from expelling the workers, whose work permits […]