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/ 26 January 2003
The death toll in the Sizzlers gay massage parlour massacre where eight men were murdered and two seriously injured earlier this week has risen to nine, say Cape Town police.
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/ 24 January 2003
Thousands of Lesotho households have been left without a regular income after the completion of the Mohale Dam and with it the first phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
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/ 21 January 2003
The black wildebeest, which evolved around a million years ago on the central plains of southern Africa, is now under threat due to cross-breeding with its ancestral species the blue wildebeest, scientists warn.
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/ 21 January 2003
HIV/Aids was expected to slash 12-million off South Africa’s population growth by 2015, the University of South Africa’s Bureau of Market Research (BMR) said on Monday.
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/ 16 January 2003
The Mpumalanga Parks Board denied on Wednesday afternoon that it would endanger the lives of eight lions at a predator sanctuary in the province by moving them to another location.
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/ 15 January 2003
Tatolo Setlai, the Free State prison chief who played a high-profile role in revealing corruption in the Grootvlei prison outside Bloemfontein to the Jali Commission of Enquiry, was arrested on Wednesday for alleged corruption.
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/ 15 January 2003
An alleged rightwinger accused of planning to blow up the Vaal Dam testified on Tuesday in the Bloemfontein Regional Court with his Bible at hand.
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/ 13 January 2003
The New National Party (NNP) has stood back for its cooperation partner, the African National Congress (ANC), in a key by-election in a Pretoria municipal ward — to be held on January 22.
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/ 10 January 2003
The tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho is considering a new strategy to curb rising farm livestock theft costing millions of dollars — tracking and identifying animals through microchips implanted under their skin.
Six municipal by-elections are to be held in South Africa on January 22, four in African National Congress strongholds, one in an Inkatha Freedom Party stronghold and another in a more marginal seat vacated by a Democratic Alliance councillor.
While the road death toll since December 1 mounted to 1 236 by Monday, the Democratic Alliance demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Dullah Omar, or his removal from office.
A man charged with allegedly helping devise a right-wing plot to overthrow the government, was freed on R20 000 bail in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
Exactly 111 years since the birth of writer J.R.R. Tolkien in Bloemfontein, the Free State capital now aims to convert itself into a site of pilgrimage for the thousands of enthusiasts worldwide captivated by the fantasy world of Middle Earth.
How many of the year’s events can you remember?<br>
1 Who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature?<br>
2 Which KwaZulu-Natal mayor said Cape Town could "keep [the] moffies and gays"?
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
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/ 25 December 2002
As the year draws to a close, a spate of farm attacks in various parts of the country has left at least three people dead. In the latest incident the bodies of Johan van Dyk (58) and his wife Christina( 54) were found on Tuesday morning on the farm Kareebosch, about 20km out of Polokwane in the Limpopo province.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
A letter from IFP Youth Brigade national organiser PC Mashego to the manager of Standard Bank’s Simmonds Street (Jozi) branch was inexplicably delivered to the Dorsbult Bar…
ACCLAIMED South African artist Father Frans Claerhout is causing a furore in
art circles after revealing to a Sunday newspaper that hundreds of his
paintings are forgeries.
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/ 12 January 2002
Police raided the homes of several rightwingers on Friday in the wake of recent bombings blamed on the far right and threats of more violence.
After more than a month on the run, two men allegedly linked to a rightwing plot to overthrow the government were arrested in the Free State on Friday.
The Jali Commission investigating corruption in the Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei prison was advised to reject the testimony of Free State Commissioner Willem Damons as a whole.
Police investigating right-wing activities in the country on Saturday refused to disclose further information on the second phase of Operation Hopper — aimed at enforcing the Arms and Ammunitions Act.
The Democratic Alliance in the Cape says it has ”taken a decision” on the findings of a party probe into provincial leader Gerald Morkel’s links with fugitive German businessman Jurgen Harksen.
The four Grootvlei Prison inmates who videotaped their warders selling drugs, alcohol, firearms and juvenile ”sex slaves” to inmates have been given 24-hour protection.
Two 27-year-old men have been sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment each for an attack on a honeymooning Polish couple two years ago, police said on Friday.
Crawford von Abo, the Free State farmer who was arrested in Zimbabwe recently for being on his farm there, is determined to return to that country next month to face criminal charges.
A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
Around 100 white Free Staters braved the spring rain on Wednesday to attend a mass meeting in Bloemfontein organised by the provincial ANC aimed at ”bridge-building” between it and the white community.
Temperatures ranging from as little 2C to as high as 38,5C within only three weeks had damaged one of the most promising South African wheat crops in years.
The remains of the black South African soldiers who perished 85 years ago with the sunken SS Mendi war ship in France during the First World War will soon be brought home.
Harmony has secured the distribution rights to the United States and Canada for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.