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/ 14 February 2001
There were few major surprises in the list of nominations for this year’s 73rd annual Academy Awards announced in Beverly Hills.
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/ 14 February 2001
ANOTHER little boy has been left paralysed and brain damaged after undergoing surgery to repair a broken arm at Mpumalanga’s “hospital of hell”. Provincial health authorities have tried to cover up the maltreatment, ordering families not to speak to the press and lying about subsequent therapy. Thirteen-year-old Bheki Mokoena broke his arm in 1996 and […]
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/ 14 February 2001
MALAWIAN police have filed criminal charges against three journalists from the opposition Daily Times for publishing “false news likely to cause public alarm.” The Daily Times this week carried a story alleging that serial murders had resurfaced in Chiradzulu district, 15km from Blantyre. Eight men have been murdered since January, with their eyes gouged and […]
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/ 14 February 2001
CANADA should compensate South Africa for “looting” the country?s doctors, says the head of the SA Medical Research Council, Malegapuru William Makgoba. Under an international “code of ethics” advocated by Dr Makgoba, rich countries like Canada would be required to pay for every doctor they recruit in South Africa. “It’s a new form of looting […]
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/ 14 February 2001
VERTICAL and above ground burials could be a solution to SAs grave space shortage, a problem exacerbated by the large numbers of people dying from HIV/Aids. Landscape designer Lynton Johnson said at the Funerex conference in Durban the rise in the number of people who had died because of HIV/Aids had affected demand for burial […]
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/ 14 February 2001
SOUTH African sugar and aluminium producer Tongaat-Hulett Group is prepared to buy back up to 20% of its shares, which would boost the price before shareholder Anglo American sells a controlling stake. Anglo American is expected to sell its major remaining non-core asset – a 50.9% stake in Tongaat, whose businesses involve sugar, aluminium, starch, […]
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/ 14 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed South African jazz musician Moses Molelekwa, 28, and his wife were found dead in his Johannesburg premises, police said on Wednesday. Inspector Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said jazz pianist Molelekwa and Florence Mtoba, 35, were found late on Tuesday by Mtoba’s brother. Molelekwa was found hanging from a beam and […]
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/ 14 February 2001
FOUR Rwandans – including two Catholic nuns – suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda will go on trial in Brussels on April 17. Vincent Ntezimana and Alphonse Higaniro, and nuns Gertrude Mukangango and Julienne Kizito, all residents of Brussels, are charged with war crimes, according to the official indictment. Higaniro and Ntezimana […]
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/ 14 February 2001
Own Correspondent, Windhoek HUMANITARIAN organisations in Namibia fear that the planned move of a huge refugee camp to the northeast of the country will disrupt the fragile way of life of the largely illiterate San hunter-gatherers there. Officials say that as a result of that concern, the ministry of home affairs has agreed to commission […]
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/ 14 February 2001
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Wednesday SCORES of Mpumalanga schools still practise petty apartheid, denying their black pupils equal education and access to science labs or sports facilities and forcing them to use separate buses on school trips. Some of the more “hardcore racist” schools also refuse to offer non-Afrikaans speakers mathematics, commerce or other science […]