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/ 12 January 2001
THE Nigerian army chief has defended recent life jail sentences imposed on 25 wounded soldiers accused of mutiny for complaining about their conditions. The soldiers, who were injured while serving in ECOMOG, a west African peacekeeping force, were sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of last month for protesting against conditions surrounding their medical […]
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/ 12 January 2001
MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday THE brother of a senior official guiding South Africas controversial R43bn arms package has been a director of a local offshoot of one of the winning foreign companies from as early as 1996 – winning contracts worth at least R400m in the process. Shabir Shaik, the brother of Shamin Chippy […]
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/ 12 January 2001
SOUTH African smart card company Aplitec has given financial services group Nedcor an option to raise its stake to 50% from 25.1%. It will also waive the mandatory offer which may be required to be made if there is a change of control as a result of Nedcor exercising the option.
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/ 12 January 2001
Machova has always been at the top of her class and her teachers thought she could turn out to be anything she wanted to be.
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/ 12 January 2001
According to the Rationalisation of Local Government Affairs Act road closing and access restricting measures can be granted by a municipality under the following conditions: l The applicant must justify a need for such closure by providing crime statistics in the area concerned. l The applicant must outline security measures that have been used (bobbies […]
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/ 12 January 2001
The likes of Springer have built empires by exposing the exhibitionist in all of us and <em>Survivor</em> was no different.
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/ 12 January 2001
Riaan Wolmarans CDs OFTHEWEEK Christmas always brings a glut of greatest-hits compilations as record companies cash in on the time of giving. Most actually boil down to three hit singles off the artist’s measly two albums plus a few others that received radio play, rather than a showcase of an accomplished career. Two welcome exceptions […]
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/ 12 January 2001
What criteria are used to select so-called black intellectuals?
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/ 12 January 2001
As the US cuts interest rates in a bid to stave off recession, Thomas Frank explains how the ‘New Economy’ was always based on a dangerous myth.
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/ 12 January 2001
The white apology initiative has provoked a public debate about moral responsibilities and collective values.