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/ 3 September 2001
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 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
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
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
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
FIVE members of the same family were murdered on Saturday by armed assailants in Boukaid, near Tissemsilt, some 260 kilometres southwest of the capital Algiers, local witnesses said on Sunday. – AFP
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/ 3 September 2001
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
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
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 […]