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/ 2 February 2001
South Africa has been criticised for not taking a stronger stand against executions Roshila Pillay The South African government will not intervene to save South African Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch from the gallows. However, the Cape High Court is considering an application by Tanzanian national Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, the man allegedly responsible for the bomb that […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Hours before its printing works was destroyed in a bomb blast, top Zim officials vowed to silence the Daily News. Mercedes Sayagues reports State terrorism has escalated in Zimbabwe with Sunday’s bomb attack on the independent newspaper, the Daily News. Experts estimate that five TM46 anti-tank landmines fitted with limpet-type detonators destroyed the 60cm thick […]
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/ 2 February 2001
David Beresford Another Country There is what might be described as a pre-Copernican instinct in most people that proceeds from a sense of self-importance to an assumption about the centrality of their lives to human existence and their times to history. When the impulse came to declare mankind at a turning point, or crossroads, it […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Bronwen Jones ‘Shit” is a mild expletive, inoffensive to many. But human excrement is taboo. This most distasteful of subjects has been on my mind and in the air for several weeks now. I am acting in loco parentis for a little girl who lost most of her legs, and her parents, in a fire […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Every year countless numbers of South African children end up in hospitals with serious burn injuries. Whatever the cause of their burns, they face a life of emotional trauma that comes from severe physical disfigurement. But the reality, as Khadija Magardie found, is that they can be helped if the injuries are attended to in […]
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/ 2 February 2001
After a howler against West Ham last week Fabien Barthez might rue his switch David Barnes No one quite remembers when Fabien Barthez broke with family tradition in his home village of La Roque d’Olmes at the foot of the Pyrenees and started playing with a round ball. But what they do know is that […]
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/ 2 February 2001
An asylum-seeker has 30 days to appeal against home affairs’s rejection of his application on the basis that he was using the procedure as a cover for espionage Piers Pigou The arrest and attempted deportation earlier last month of an asylum-seeker from Cameroon by the Department of Home Affairs has again raised concerns about the […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Neal Collins soccer Lucas Radebe will announce his retirement from international football on Friday unless South African Football Association chief executive Danny Jordaan can come up with a plan that satisfies the increasingly urgent demands of Leeds United. Jordaan, Radebe and his agent Gary Blumberg were due to meet Leeds coach David O’Leary and chairman […]
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/ 2 February 2001
A number of MPLs across party lines are concerned about the drop in standards in the House Jaspreet Kindra KwaZulu-Natal’s legislature rocked with racial slurs this week, causing an MPL to flee the House in tears. The legislature’s staff expressed concern about the behaviour of some African National Congress politicians and said they had never […]
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/ 2 February 2001
In November last year hospitals in the Eastern Cape ran out of money to buy medicines and food for patients Scotch Tagwireyi Sister Elizabeth Mokoni (37) of Natalspruit hospital’s paediatric department on the East Rand is haunted by the sound of crying babies. Her concentration is beginning to lapse. She can’t stand noise even the […]