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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 […]
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/ 17 January 2001
FELIX MPONDA, Blantyre | Wednesday A COURT in Malawi has acquitted former cabinet minister Brown Mpinganjira on what he says were trumped-up charges of corruption relating to a $2m contract scheme. After the acquittal, the courtroom burst into chants from jubilant suporters of the former education minister, who was sacked last year by President Bakili […]
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/ 17 January 2001
LESOTHO’s youthful Queen Karabo Mohato Seeiso has assumed her duties as royal consort to constitutional monarch King Letsie III at a ceremony in the capital Maseru. Queen Karabo, who married 38-year old King Letsie in a fairy-tale wedding 11 months ago, was crowned Queen Regent at Lesotho’s Royal Palace by Chief Justice Lebona Kheola. Letsie’s […]
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/ 17 January 2001
THE African National Congress is considering launching its own newspaper over its frustration with the political stance of existing newspapers, Business Day reports. An ANC insider told the newspaper there was a strong feeling at the partys recent planning meeting that a study should be undertaken to test the viability of a publication. The ANC […]