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/ 13 November 2001
JUSTINE GERARDY, Johannesburg | Tuesday EVERY exam was the same. An inexplicable illness would strike, leaving her unable to write and unable to explain why. No one could give a reason. Until an igqirha (traditional healer) told her that a witch whose daughter had dropped out of school did not want her to write her […]
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/ 13 November 2001
THE trial of three members of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) who escaped from the Cape High Court on October 4 but were later recaptured will continue on Wednesday. Ebrahim Jeneker, and brothers Abdullah and Ismail Maansdorp escaped from the holding cells of the Cape Town High Court during their trial on 138 charges […]
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/ 12 November 2001
Playing the part of a cultural tour leader, Andrew Graham-Dixon began an interesting three-part series on BBC World last weekend. Called Art that Shook the World, the series began by examining the effect of the work of French Impressionist Claude Monet. In particular Graham-Dixon speculated about Monet’s 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise. The painting is credited […]
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/ 12 November 2001
Geneva | Monday CAMPAIGNING New York lawyer Ed Fagan is to sue banks in Europe and the United States on behalf of victims of South Africa’s apartheid regime, it was reported on Sunday. Fagan told the Swiss newspaper Dimanche.ch that banks in France, Switzerland, Britain and the United States had profited from supporting the regime […]
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/ 12 November 2001
LUNGA MASUKU, Mahlanya | Monday SWAZILAND’S young absolute monarch bowed to pressure from the maidens of his kingdom on Sunday and delivered up an ox as a fine for taking a second fiance after demanding that all young women take a vow of chastity. Three hundred young women marched seven kilometres from the village of […]
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/ 12 November 2001
Harare | Monday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe’s regime declared on Sunday that it would bar non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from distributing food aid in the national famine that aid agencies say has already begun. The ban threatens to wreck a major international relief operation being mobilised by international donors. Already nearly a million people are in […]
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/ 12 November 2001
Khwaja Bahauddin, Afghanistan | Monday US B-52 bombers unleashed their heaviest payloads on Taliban frontline positions on Sunday as militia and opposition forces battled for a key district in northern Afghanistan. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld meanwhile defended plans to carry on raids through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan saying there was a real […]
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/ 12 November 2001
AMER OUALI AND MARC PONDAVEN, Algiers | Monday THE Algerian government said on Sunday the death toll from fierce storms that swept the country had killed at least 343 people, injured more than 300, and left at least 4 000 families homeless. Rescuers continued to search in clinging mud and through piles of debris for […]
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/ 12 November 2001
Islamabad | Sunday OSAMA bin Laden, the Taliban and the atomic bomb — a ”doomsday scenario” that terrorist experts warn can no longer be simply rejected as alarmist fantasy. Two hypotheses have been put forward for the possible use of the ultimate terrorist weapon by Islamic extremists. One involves the acquisition of a nuclear weapon […]