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/ 31 January 2001
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki flew into Kinshasa on Tuesday evening and held talks on ending the war engulfing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with new president Joseph Kabila. Mbeki appeared cheerful as they emerged from their hour-long talks at Kinshasa’s airport, but the 29-year-old DRC president appeared sombre, as he has since the […]
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/ 31 January 2001
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo’s plane developed a hydraulic problem while about to take off from Zurich on his way back from the Davos economic summit and was forced to delay his return by a day while it was seen to. Last year, the Nigerian leader requested parliament to approve money to buy a new plane, […]
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/ 31 January 2001
TORRENTIAL rains in central Mozambique are threatening 260_000 people with floods, after killing at least five people and making 18_000 homeless. The Zambezi river has already caused problems upstream in Tete province, where more than 10_000 have had to move to higher ground. The rains have now moved southwards into Sofala province, where one person […]
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/ 31 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s crack investigating unit, the Scorpions, has teamed up with the SA Revenue Services (SARS) to raid the homes and offices of 26 customs officials suspected of being involved in corruption and fraud amounting to billions of rand. The team confiscated computers, other electronic equipment and documents from the […]
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/ 31 January 2001
BUILDING workers have found four human skeletons at the French consulate in Casablanca in northern Morocco. The skeletons are those of people who died in the 1950s and have been taken to the Casablanca mortuary for examination, reports said, quoting informed sources. The French embassy in Rabat confirmed the discovery, but had little to say […]
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/ 31 January 2001
A 70-year-old man has been caught driving at an alleged 201 km/h on the N3 highway near Heidelberg. Suliman Kholvadia of Johannesburg then apparently failed to stop and traffic officers gave chase for 25km before apprehending him. He claimed that his brakes had failed. Two visitors from India were travelling with Kholvadia, who appeared in […]
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/ 31 January 2001
SOUTH African Marietta Bosch’s last chance of escaping the hangman for the murder of her best friend is an appeal for clemency to Botswana President Festus Mogae. Bosch, 50, is back on Death Row in Botswana’s Gaborone Central Prison after the Botswana Court of Appeal upheld her conviction and death sentence for killing Maria Wolmarans. […]
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/ 31 January 2001
FOURTEEN people were killed and 10 injured when lightning struck a hut in a remote rural area of KwaZulu-Natal. A two-month old baby, two toddlers and a 70-year-old woman were among those killed when lighting struck the dwelling in the hamlet of Mogadi, southwest of Durban. Police said the deceased and injured were taking shelter […]
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/ 31 January 2001
JOHNNIC e-Ventures, the Johnnic group’s online division, and SAIL, South Africa’s largest sports brand investor, have snapped up troubled Internet-based ticketing and box office services provider TicketWeb. The deal, which is subject to Competitions Commission approval, will see JeV and SAIL each acquire 42.5% of TicketWeb from African Media Entertainment Limited (AME), the listed media […]