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/ 17 December 2000
A NAMIBIAN fishing trawler has recovered wreckage and personal effects believed to be from the 1997 mid-air crash between US and German military planes which killed 33 people. German and US military experts will be called to Namibia to identify the items caught in the trawler’s net near the crash site, at sea off the […]
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/ 17 December 2000
SOUTH African police have arrested a Congo national for drug dealing and confiscated Mandrax tablets worth R2.5m. The 26-year-old man, who had been under police surveillance, was arrested at Johannesburg railway station as he was about to board a train to Cape Town. – AFP
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/ 17 December 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Cape Town | Saturday THE Cape Town High Court has dismissed an amnesty application by the rightwing killers of South African Communist Party leader and liberation hero Chris Hani, saying they had failed to disclose all the facts surrounding the assassination. Lawyers for Janusz Walus and Clive Derby Lewis, who are serving life […]
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/ 17 December 2000
THE death toll on South African roads since the start of the summer holiday season on December 1 had risen to 226 by Wednesday night, according to the road safety organisation Arrive Alive. 94 of those who had died were passengers, 71 pedestrians and 61 were drivers. 47 people have died on the roads in […]
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/ 16 December 2000
CHRIS MCKENZIE and JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Friday MPUMALANGA’S controversial new R630m legislature is illegal and its construction has destroyed at least three protected plant species. The complex is almost complete, but it has still not been approved by the Nelspruit City Council or the national Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. Meanwhile, forensic investigators […]
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/ 16 December 2000
MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday POLYGRAPH tests, random searches of cricketers’ rooms and luggage, a duty to report improper approaches and undercover stings to test players’ honesty are among the suggestions from the King Commission of Inquiry into Cricket Match-fixing. Proposed measures include an UCB-controlled accreditation system to contact players, the monitoring of telephone […]
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/ 15 December 2000
One of the reasons for the success of American slasher movies is that they confirm the predominantly middle-class teenagers’ worst suspicions about their parents’ world. It’s as nasty and violent as the news implies, and the new bogey-man or archetype of that world is the serial killer.
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/ 15 December 2000
Talk show host Larry King often asks his actor guests if they derive their professional enjoyment from being other people for a while, and they usually answer yes. Actors can do it regularly, but ordinary people seldom get the chance – a chance I suspect many of us would take, just for the thrill of it, were it offered.
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/ 15 December 2000
This time last year we got Arnold Schwarzenegger’s apocalyptic action picture <i>End of Days</i>, in which he had to battle the devil himself to save the world from … well, from the devil himself. This Christmas his big-budget offering is <b>The Sixth Day</b>, in which he has to battle evil would-be world-dominators who have mastered the science of cloning people.
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/ 15 December 2000
Shaun de Waal November this year was the centenary of the death of Oscar Wilde in a cheap Paris hotel; it has been said that the 20th century, on the doorstep of which he died, was the Wilde century. In many ways, Wilde was a (sometimes?unwitting) prophet of the hundred years after his death. In […]