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/ 16 April 1999

A hot night in Harare night

I am aware that the term “Harare’s nightlife” could be said to be a contradictio in adjectio, like hot snow or cold fire. Two years ago, I’d fully agree. Not now. Sleepy Harare is coming out of its torpor, and not only with food riots. Hot tip: nightlife begins and ends early because Harare is […]

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/ 16 April 1999

Between tooled covers

Barbara Ludman EX-LIBRIS by Ross King (Vintage) Isaac Inchbold is a bookseller in 1660s London, summoned to a crumbling house on a ruined estate and commissioned to find a book missing since the start of the Thirty Years War. The library is magnificent. Collected by an adventurer who smuggled the books out of Prague ahead […]

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/ 16 April 1999

A stab in the hardback

A couple of years ago the taste in publishing was for the self-lacerating memoir. Many writers set out to put the raw facts about their lives on the page. Now the game has moved on to memoirs by relatives, friends, former lovers – people with secrets that the subjects of those memoirs might have preferred […]

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/ 16 April 1999

JOURNALISTS IN SPY TRIAL

A ZAMBIAN magistrate on Friday committed 12 journalists from an independent newspaper who are facing espionage charges to the high court. The journalists from the Post newspaper, who include the managing director and editor, Fred M’membe, were separately arrested and charged with espionage, which carries a minimum jail term of twenty years, after their paper […]

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/ 16 April 1999

When a brother rapes a white woman

How do you feel when a white woman looks at you and tightens the grip on her sling-bag, sure that all you have on your mind are her possessions? Like an African male, that’s how. This, to be sure, is how many white people think of you: a crime about to happen. And that is […]

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/ 16 April 1999

PERUVIAN COKE IN THE CAPE

A PERUVIAN national, Oscar Werner Davis (28), pleaded guilty to charges of possessing cocaine with a street value of R3,2-million in Cape Town’s Magistrate’s Court on Friday, SABC radio news reported. Davis was arrested earlier this month at a Green Point hotel after allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover police agent. More cocaine was found […]

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/ 16 April 1999

Free AZT for rape victims

Aaron Nicodemus A quiet revolution in dealing with rape victims is happening at a small, privately funded safe house behind the Amanzimtoti police station, just south of Durban. Open since December, the safe house’s organisers were able to obtain free AZT from its manufacturer, and are dispensing the first three treatments free of charge to […]

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/ 15 April 1999

Lankans destroy Pakistan

WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM: SRI Lanka beat Pakistan by a mammoth 115 runs in their Standard Bank Triangular cricket match at Willowmore Park on Wednesday. Chasing a score of 288 set by the Lankans, the Pakistanis were bundled out for a paltry 173 runs in 39,2 overs. Saeed Anwar top-scored for the Pakistanis, making 59 runs. Lankan […]

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/ 15 April 1999

KEYSTONE COPS IN SKUKUZA

FOUR illegal Mozambican immigrants who escaped from Skukuza police cells in the Kruger National Park this week were still at large on Thursday, bringing the total of escaped prisoners in the province since January to 151, with only 42 rearrested. Sergeant Thabisile Gama said the men escaped at 6pm on Tuesday, as police prepared to […]