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/ 3 September 2001

A meeting of modern men

The sound of a band baring their deepest emotions can provoke a multitude of reactions. In James’s case, it’s the sensation of having stumbled into a men’s therapy group at the moment they link arms for a group hug. Reunited on <i>Pleased to Meet You</i> (Universal) with producer Brian Eno — though his aesthete’s influence is hard to detect.

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/ 3 September 2001

VIOLENCE MARS ZAMBIAN BY-ELECTION

VIOLENCE broke out in Zambia’s Kabwata urban constituency as voters prepared for a crucial legislative by-election in four days’ time. There were no reports of casualties from the clashes involving the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) and the newly formed opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD). “We have arrested one FDD member who […]

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/ 3 September 2001

Superstar surgeon Barnard dies in Cyprus

Johannesburg | Monday WORLD leaders and the global medical fraternity voiced sorrow at the death of Christiaan Barnard, the pioneering South African heart transplant surgeon who died in Cyprus on Sunday at the age of 78. “His death is a great loss to the country after all the contributions he made. He was also very […]

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/ 3 September 2001

Spies lift lid on SA’s dirty dealings in Zim

Harare | Monday THREE South African spies jailed in Zimbabwe have revealed that the former apartheid South Africa government sponsored a small dissident group that sparked the 1980’s civil strife that left thousands of civilians killed in Zimbabwe’s western Matabeleland province. In an exclusive interview granted to the state-run Sunday Mail, the former South African […]

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/ 3 September 2001

Mbeki may play role in Israel’s quest for peace

Durban | Monday MOVES are afoot for South African President Thabo Mbeki to take a major role in Middle East negotiations, several sources said on Sunday as charges of genocide against Israel dominated a UN conference on racism in the east coast city of Durban. Mbeki met in Durban on Saturday with Palestinian Authority chairman […]

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/ 3 September 2001

ANGRY VENDORS LOOT SHOPS IN BLANTYRE

HUNDREDS of vendors rioted in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe for four hours on Saturday, after city authorities demolished their street stalls overnight, police and witnesses said. The rioters looted two shops and fought running battles with anti-riot police in anger against the demolitions. The city officials demolished the stalls in the Old Town section of the […]

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/ 3 September 2001

29 DEAD, 50 HURT IN UNITA AMBUSH

TWENTY-nine people were killed and some 50 injured in an ambush on a civilian convoy in northern Angola blamed on the rebel Unita movement, the Lusa news agency said in Lisbon on Sunday. A minibus and two coaches were ambushed by assailants on a road some 50 kilometers from the seaside city of Sumbe, in […]

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/ 3 September 2001

116 swept away by floods in Nigeria

AMINU ABUBAKAR, Kano | Monday LTHE toll reported missing or dead after flash floods swept through northern Nigeria leapt on Sunday to more than 116, after floods ripped through Jigawa State. Some 102 people are missing, feared dead, in Jigawa State, northeast Nigeria, after water released late Thursday by an overflowing dam swept through towns […]