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/ 11 November 2001

3 CHILDREN KILLED BY MORTAR SHELL IN ANGOLA

THREE children have been killed in southern Angola after playing with an unexploded mortar shell, a police representative told the Portuguese news agency Lusa on Wednesday. The three children were playing in the southern Angolan city of Lubango, the capital city of Huila province, with an 82-millimetre mortar shell they had found on wasteland in […]

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/ 11 November 2001

12 TAKEN HOSTAGE IN CASAMANCE

A GROUP of some 50 armed separatist rebels on Wednesday attacked workers on a construction site in Casamance in Senegal, before fleeing with 12 hostages, military sources said. The attackers robbed workers of the Satom public works company while they were building a road link between the towns of Bignona and Dioulou, northwest of Casamance’s […]

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/ 11 November 2001

INFERTILITY NOT SOLELY LINKED TO SPERM COUNT

SPERM count is not the only factor to be considered when diagnosing male infertility, according to a study to be published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers say several other factors can lead to infertility, such as the size and structure of sperm cells, in a study that calls into question […]

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/ 11 November 2001

Jubilee to pursue reparation claims

Johannesburg | Sunday JUBILEE South Africa’s National Executive Committee on Saturday resolved to pursue reparation claims against Switzerland, German, British, United States of America, and South Africa. In a meeting in Johannesburg, the committee vowed to undertake legal actions against the countries if they were not co-operative on the matter. ”We would hope that the […]

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/ 10 November 2001

Morkel throws in the towel

ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Saturday WESTERN Cape Premier Gerald Morkel has quit. He made the announcement at Mitchell’s Plain in Cape Town on Saturday morning. Morkel said he would resign as premier and also as provincial leader of the New National Party with effect from close of business Monday. “Because I believe with all […]

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/ 9 November 2001

Rivers of blood

Like the face of Greta Garbo, the Marquis de Sade increasingly appears to be a screen on to which we can project our own fears and desires. Whatever the historical facts of the misdemeanours of the "Divine Marquis" who gave his name to the vice of sadism, he has become a figure who accommodates a variety of readings.

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/ 9 November 2001

So much for impartial reporting

The chairman of CNN, Walter Isaacson, said that when reporting on the civilian casualties of the United States bombing in Afghanistan, his correspondents should mention that it should be viewed “in the context of a terrorist attack that caused enormous suffering in the United States.” I wonder what the American people would think if they […]