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/ 30 November 1999

FIGHTING RESUMES IN NORTHWEST DR CONGO

HEAVY fighting resumed in the northwestern Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a rebel spokesman said by telephone on Tuesday. “Since Monday morning there has been very heavy and bloody fighting at Bokungu where we were attacked” by the men of President Laurent Kabila and allied soldiers from Namibia, Zimbabwe and the Interahamwe […]

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/ 30 November 1999

Loop the loop in Swaziland

Although local is lekker (and cheaper), almost local can be just as lekker. Swaziland might be just a trip across the border, but it’s a whole new world. There is something in the clear mountain air of Swaziland that makes you forget South Africa is only a heartbeat away.

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/ 30 November 1999

Happy Xmas, Sir

The year was 1969, my first year of teaching. The last day of the school year at Doornfontein Primary had arrived. Everyone in my standard two (grade four) class was excited. At 12pm the bell would ring shrilly to announce the start of the December holidays.

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/ 30 November 1999

ANGLOGOLD BUYS 300 000 OUNCES IN AUCTION

WORLD number one gold producer AngloGold Ltd said on Monday that it bought a substantial portion of the Bank of England’s third bullion auction and used the purchase to unwind part of its hedge. “We did bid at the auction and bought 300000 ounces. We have a large hedge and it suited our purposes to […]

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/ 30 November 1999

Apartheid govt bought ‘brain altering machine’

BRONWEN ROBERTS, Pretoria | Tuesday 9.25am THE DEFENCE force acquired a machine that could permanently alter human aggression levels by tampering with the brain, the Pretoria High Court heard on Monday. The claim was made at the murder, drug and fraud trial of scientist Wouter Basson — who headed the past regime’s biochemical warfare programme […]