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/ 27 January 2001

OJ commited murders, says appeal court

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Los Angeles | Saturday A CALIFORNIA appeals court has upheld a civil jury’s finding that ”Trial of the Century” defendant OJ Simpson was liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, saying in effect that Simpson committed two deliberate, vicious murders. Simpson, a former football star turned actor, was acquitted of […]

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/ 26 January 2001

Rock ‘n’ roll with me

The news that Cameron Crowe’s film <i>Almost Famous</i> has won a best-movie Golden Globe does not surprise. One is puzzled, though, that it won in the comedy/musical category, when it is a fine dramatic piece that is also very funny and just happens to contain musical sequences.

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/ 26 January 2001

CASE OF THE MISSING GENITALS IN COURT

AN Mpumalanga man who apparently murdered his common-law wife and cut off her genitals has appeared briefly in the Nelspruit District Court. Simon Norman Mbewe, 31, was not asked to plead on a charge murdering Lebohang Sekaneng, 25, at their house at Bhamjee squatter camp near Nelspruit, in December. Mbewe was arrested after people going […]