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/ 9 August 2001

Zimbabwe minister fingers white farmers

Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE Home Minister John Nkomo said this week that white farmers and not pro-government war veterans are behind the recent upsurge in violence in the countryside. “No war veterans have been causing any problems on the farms,” Nkomo said late on Wednesday. “It is true the farmers have been attacking properly and […]

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/ 9 August 2001

Phone costs slow growth of Net in SA

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Thursday HIGH telephone costs in South Africa have limited the growth of the local Internet industry, international survey company Nielsen NetRatings reported on Wednesday. Nielsen NetRatings said in a statement that an estimated 1,5-million South Africans now had home Internet access, but that users only spent an average of four hours […]

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/ 9 August 2001

NIGERIAN SLAYS KILLER SNAKE, BAGS REWARD

A NIGERIAN snake charmer, Umaru Daura, picked up a 100 000 naira ($900) reward in Kano on Tuesday after slaying a snake reputed to have killed 34 people. Daura walked into the state government headquarters in Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city, Tuesday afternoon with the corpse of a slim 1,5-metre long snake. The killer snake, […]

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/ 9 August 2001

MUGABE NOT LISTENING, MBEKI TELLS BBC

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki acknowledged in a television interview to be aired on Monday evening that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is not listening to him. Interviewer Tim Sebastian of the BBC’s “Hard Talk” told Mbeki: “He’s not listening is he?”, to which the president replied: “Well he hasn’t.” Mbeki has engaged in “quiet diplomacy” in a […]

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/ 9 August 2001

110 dead, 140 wounded by mines in Angola in June

Luanda | Thursday ANTI-personnel and anti-tank landmines killed 110 people and injured 140 others during June in six of Angola’s eighteen provinces, a UN report said on Wednesday. About 500 000 people are trapped in areas littered with landmines or where fighting continues to rage in the 26-year civil war, the report said. Estimates vary […]

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/ 9 August 2001

272 000 DISPLACED BY ANGOLAN WAR IN 6 MONTHS

Some 272 000 people fled fighting between rebels and government forces in Angola from January to June this year, a UN report said on Tuesday. Displacement of civilians mostly peasant farmers occurred in 10 of the troubled southern African country’s 18 provinces, the report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) […]

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/ 9 August 2001

Aids: Foot-and-mouth spreads in cabinet

Cape Town | Wednesday NEW mortality statistics have shown that violence rivals Aids as a threat to South African society, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told a news conference on Wednesday. But her assertion, backing up President Thabo Mbeki, is at odds with UNAids figures which suggest that annual deaths due to Aids are nearly 10 […]

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/ 9 August 2001

AIRPORT COMPANY’S SECURITY A LITTLE HOLEY

A GROUP of armed men made off with a haul of cash, diamonds and precious metals from a Swissair freight container shortly after it was unloaded at Johannesburg airport in South Africa last week, the Swiss airline and a German newspaper report said on Monday. Between five and seven gunmen, according to witnesses, raided the […]

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/ 9 August 2001

Call to cut misconduct at circumcision schools

SAKHILE MOKOENA Pietersburg | Thursday CIRCUMCISION schools should be regulated without “assassinating” African culture and customs, urged Pan Africanist Youth Congress (Payco) leader in the Northern Province, Matome Mashao, on Thursday. His call follows the cancellation of a provincial circumcision indaba, or meeting, that was to be held on Tuesday but was scuppered when traditional […]

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/ 9 August 2001

ELDERLY FARMERS BEATEN AND ROBBED

A 79-YEAR-OLD Northern Province farmer and his elderly wife have been briefly hospitalised after three armed men ambushed and beat them on Sunday night. The knife-wielding attackers reportedly lured Hermanus Johannes Oosthuizen out of his smallholding house near Pietersburg by taunting his dog at 10pm on Sunday night. “His 71-year old wife, Gerbrecht, heard his […]