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/ 24 March 2000

Mugabe going for broke

Iden Wetherell A senior minister in court on corruption charges, a president going for broke in an electoral contest he could well lose, the rule of law openly flouted and the country’s economy going down the tubes. It’s another week in Zimbabwe! Only recently dismissed as pedestrian and predictable, the pace of events north of […]

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/ 24 March 2000

Meditations on a Mercedes

David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY My general incompetence when it comes to the purchase of motor cars is well-known to those who know me. The last I purchased from a Bulgarian … but I will go no further, out of respect for the spirit of the Constitution. Then there was the VW Golf which I had […]

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/ 24 March 2000

Mandela denies being MI6 agent

Anthony Sampson Nelson Mandela has reacted angrily to a claim that he was recruited as an “agent of influence” by British intelligence and that he visited MI6 in Britain to thank it for its help in foiling assassination attempts. “I never visited the headquarters of any intelligence service,” he said on Wednesday. The allegations were […]

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/ 24 March 2000

Keep taking the Pill

Sarah Boseley BODY LANGUAGE Some things in life are immutable. There is a rhythm to the seasons, night follows day, tides ebb and flood, and a woman’s body goes through a menstrual cycle every 28 days or so until the menopause sets in. That is the way it has always been and we assume it […]

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/ 24 March 2000

Iridium finds would-be rescuers

M&G reporters A group of American private investors on Monday made a last minute attempt to rescue the $5-billion satellite telephone service Iridium, which was forced into liquidation last Friday. Iridium, which has United States electronic giant Motorola as a shareholder and backer, was set a deadline of last Friday by the court to attract […]

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/ 24 March 2000

Torture victim shot

after trial A victim of police torture was assassinated soon after his attackers were convicted Cheryl Goodenough Hours after a rural KwaZulu-Natal court found that former Impendle resident Mfaniseni Radebe had been viciously assaulted in 1997 – an electric current from a battery had been sent through clamps attached under his arms and on to […]

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/ 24 March 2000

New York crime story

Two men are gunned down and the killer disappears. Thirty years later one cop becomes obsessed with the case and finally tracks him down Philip Gourevitch On November 15 1944, an army deserter named Frank Gilbert Koehler was arrested for burglary in New York City. Frankie, as he liked to be called, was 15, so […]

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/ 24 March 2000

Please sir, can I have no more?

Food’s got to be fun, it’s got to be tasty – but it doesn’t have to be cooked by Jamie Oliver Charlotte Raven Jamie Oliver is a phenomenon. His programme, The Naked Chef, is the unexpected hit of the moment and his status as a Nineties icon has been confirmed by everyone, from the critics […]

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/ 24 March 2000

Goodwin and Flower keep West Indies at bay

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kingston | Friday 9.00pm. MURRAY Goodwin and his captain Andy Flower steered Zimbabwe out of early trouble on the first day of the second Test against West Indies on Friday. Goodwin reached 65 not out and Flower 23 not out as Zimbabwe recovered from a lunch score of 40 for three to 119 […]

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/ 24 March 2000

SEVEN KILLED IN BUS ACCIDENT

SEVEN bus passengers have been killed and at least 80 others were injured in an accident near Mossel Bay. The bus they were travelling in reportedly plunged 30m down an embankment early on Friday morning. The vehicle’s brakes failed. The injured were ferried by ambulance to the Mossel Bay provincial hospital. The privately owned transport […]