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/ 17 July 2000

ARMED MEN ATTACK CATHOLIC MISSION

FIVE armed men attacked a Catholic mission in Northern Province early on Sunday morning, shooting a church member and holding up a priest and his wife. The men broke through a security fence and gate at Makapanspoort Lutheran Catholic Mission near Potgietersrus at 3am. Bushveld police spokesman Captain Blackie Swart said the attackers smashed a […]

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/ 17 July 2000

MUSLIM REBELS FREE AILING CAPTIVE

MUSLIM rebels freed an ailing German housewife from 12 weeks in captivity in southern Philippine jungle where the gunmen still hold several mostly foreign hostages. Renate Wallert, boarded a helicopter in the town of Jolo shortly after she was handed over by the Abu Sayyaf rebels to chief hostage negotiator Robert Aventajado at their jungle […]

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/ 17 July 2000

COLD SNAP A KILLER

A MAN has apparently frozen to death in the cold snap that gripped South Africa over the weekend and forced hundreds of homeless to soup kitchens and churches for shelter, a report said on Monday. The unidentified man was discovered dead on Sunday in an alley in a Johannesburg suburb, and ambulance staff said they […]

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/ 14 July 2000

Pottermania strikes again

JKRowling’s latest Harry Potter book, which arrives in South Africa this week, has caused hysteria in Britain. Its timing is just right Mark Lawson In a career of only three years, JK Rowling has changed book publishing. She has created a world in which novels – like new cars, grouse, Beaujolais nouveau and Star Wars […]

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/ 14 July 2000

Radebe ‘violated Bill of Rights’

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has given Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe three weeks to explain his attack on the Mail & Guardian at the media racism hearings, saying his accusations constitute a prima facie violation of the Bill of Rights. At the hearings in April, Radebe – on behalf […]

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/ 14 July 2000

Rescuing urban futures

Muff Andersson I had to fight for the picture above of former president Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg mayor Isaac Mogase and Professor Lindsay Bremner of the University of the Witwatersrand. Madiba’s protocol person told me to get lost. He will not do it, she said, exiting the council venue that had been hosting her boss. But […]