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/ 17 January 2001
ILDA JACOBS, Washington | Wednesday SOUTH African smokers who are fuming at not being allowed to smoke indoors at restaurants and other public places should spare a thought for some Americans. 0 Residents of the affluent suburb of Friendship Heights in Washington DC can be fined in the region of R700 if they light up […]
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/ 17 January 2001
SUDAN has dismissed accusations of practicing slavery, kidnapping children and bombing civilians and said those accusations were part of a series of allegations to misguide the public opinion against the government. The official SUNA news agency quoted Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail as saying that “the Sudan will not respond to allegations made by […]
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/ 17 January 2001
AN overnight curfew has brought an uneasy calm to Kinshasa as uncertainty reigns after the shooting of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent Kabila, reportedly killed by his own bodyguard in an apparent coup attempt. Officials in the capital made no public statement as to the fate or whereabouts of the president following the […]
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/ 17 January 2001
AN overnight curfew has brought an uneasy calm to Kinshasa as uncertainty reigns after the shooting of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent Kabila, reportedly killed by his own bodyguard in an apparent coup attempt. Meanwhile, a diplomat in Bujumbura said Joseph Kabila, son of Laurent Kabila, had also been shot and killed. ?He […]
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/ 17 January 2001
RELIGIOUS groups have threatened to boycott cinemas in South Africa that are to start screening the horror movie The Exorcist on Friday. The powerful 1973 film by director William Friedkin tells the tale of how a demon takes possession of young girl, Regan, (Linda Blair) and her subsequent savage exorcism by a priest (Rod Steiger). […]
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/ 17 January 2001
A SOUTH African woman sentenced to the gallows in Botswana for murdering her best friend before marrying the friend’s husband takes her case to five foreign judges on the Appeals Court this week. Marietta Bosch, who turned 50 on death row last week, will be represented by high-profile British barrister Desmond de Silva, who is […]
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/ 17 January 2001
MORE than 200_000 doses of antibiotics, donated by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer for use in fighting trachoma – an eye disease affecting 142 million people worldwide – are to be sent soon to Mali. The announcement was made by the International Trachoma Initiative jointly with the Malian Minister of Health. One third of all children […]
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/ 17 January 2001
SOUTH African-owned MTN Nigeria is one of five consortiums bidding for three operating licences in one of the world’s few remaining virgin mobile phone markets in an auction expected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the Nigerian government. The auction also includes Communications Investment Ltd (CIL), backed by German giants Deutsche Telekom; Econet […]
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/ 17 January 2001
TWO members of the feared vigilante organisation Mapogo-A-Mathamaga have been charged with killing a man whose body was allegedly fed to crocodiles in the Kruger National Park to destroy evidence. Leader of Mapogo in Mpumalanga’s Nkomazi area, Pierre Maritz, 32, and Namibian Sedelis Sewiya, 37, were charged with the murder of Enock Morune Mokgane, 33, […]
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/ 17 January 2001
MALI has beefed up security in the north to crack down on an armed gang holding six soldiers hostage and threatening the local population, a security ministry official said. The group is allegedly headed by Ibrahim Bahanga, a former rebel who integrated into Mali’s army but has since deserted. Bahanga’s base in Tin Essako, some […]