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/ 19 October 2001
Paul Kirk A Durban bus company that has gone into liquidation claims a spate of hijackings crippled it. The government-run KZT Transport – which was the major provider of public transport to blacks during apartheid – was half-owned by the Bantu Development Corporation. The company’s operations in rural areas were later subsidised by the KwaZulu-Natal […]
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/ 19 October 2001
With no clear idea of where world markets are headed, and as equity prices fall, fund managers have little to say Neil Thomas As local unit-trust investors start to assess the extent of the knock they took over the third quarter, here’s a quote from United States fund manager John Holden: “It’s very difficult as […]
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/ 19 October 2001
Ntuthuko Maphumulo Reigning league champions Orlando Pirates were the first team from the southern tip of Africa to have won the continental champions’ league, and they will get their chance again in the next edition of the competition. Former champions Sundowns are representing South Africa for the third time in a row, but their campaign […]
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/ 18 October 2001
OSAMA bin Laden had warned his associates of a “major operation” against the United States shortly before the September 11 suicide plane attacks, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday. “Shortly before September 11, bin Laden told associates that he had a major operation against America under preparation,” Blair told parliament in an emergency statement. […]
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/ 17 October 2001
Review:</b> <i>Wildlife Wars: My fight to save Africa’s Natural Treasures</i> by Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell (Macmillan).
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/ 17 October 2001
A RECENT study by the Organisation for Social Science and Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) has determined that, in comparison to social indicators of other sub-Saharan nations, Rwanda has the highest level of poverty. The report noted that 62% of Rwandans lived below the poverty line. – Irin 16
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/ 17 October 2001
USaid is granting Angola an estimated $1,5-million next year for the resettlement of the demobilised Unita rebel soldiers, news reports said. The national news agency (ANGOP), said on Sunday that the programme would benefit some 300 families of soldiers demobilised under the Bicesse and Lusaka peace accords, who are based in the Huila, Huambo, Benguela […]
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/ 17 October 2001
Afghanistan, Washington | Saturday AT least four explosions shook Kabul early on Saturday as US aircraft resumed raids over Afghanistan’s capital after a temporary halt the previous day, the Muslim holy day, residents said. The jets carried three sorties and dropped heavy bombs while Taliban anti-aircraft batteries went into operation, they said. “We heard two […]
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/ 17 October 2001
THE Unita rebel movement on Friday called for proof of its forces involvement in the recent attack on a church in Kwanza Norte province, during which a group of young people were abducted, Lusa reported. The Bishop of the province told Lusa last week that during an attack on a church near Golungo Alto, about […]
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/ 17 October 2001
Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE could face massive bread and other food shortages as well as labour unrest as a result of strict price controls imposed by the government last week, business leaders have warned. Jacob Dube, president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries, warned that bakeries would suffer losses of 1,8-million Zimbabwe dollars ($32 700) […]
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/ 17 October 2001
BURKINA Faso aims to vaccinate five million children against polio in a two-day nationwide campaign next week, the director of preventive medicine Clement Zidouemba said on Tuesday. Zidouemba said children under age five would be targetted in the programme, which starts next Monday. The drive is sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO’s representative […]
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/ 17 October 2001
ZIMBABWE’S opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has suspended eight top officials, including four lawmakers, from party positions amid internal squabbles. Welshman Ncube, the MDC secretary general, said the eight, who include Learnmore Jongwe, the party’s chief representative, and Tapiwa Mashakada, shadow finance minister, were relieved of their duties pending a probe into the in-fighting. […]
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/ 17 October 2001
A MAN was arrested on Tuesday morning in connection with the murders of a mother and daughter on a farm on the West Rand on Monday, police said. Captain Paula Nothnagel said the man was arrested at Manziville in Krugersdorp. During his arrest he was apparently found in possession of two firearms that belonged to […]
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/ 17 October 2001
THE human race is likely to be wiped out by a virus before the end of this millennium unless space colonies are built as an escape route, famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking warned in an interview on Tuesday. He told the Daily Telegraph he thought biology — rather than the threat of nuclear Armageddon — was […]
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/ 17 October 2001
CHRIS MCGREAL, Cape Town | Wednesday A DEVASTATING report into Aids suppressed by the South African government because it identifies the disease as the largest killer in the country and predicts millions more deaths, was finally made public yesterday after unions, churches and politicians demanded its release. But cabinet ministers spent recent days trying to […]
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/ 17 October 2001
Harare | Wednesday AN estimated 8 000 Zimbabwean workers have left South Africa since Friday, apparently unaware of an agreement that postponed their deportation, the state-run Herald newspaper said on Wednesday. South Africa had ordered the deportation of some 15 000 Zimbabweans working on farms near the border, but agreed to postpone their repatriation after […]
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/ 16 October 2001
The finalists in the English and Afrikaans categories of the M-Net Book Prize — South Africa’s most lucrative prize for works of fiction — have been announced.
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/ 16 October 2001
BEN MACLENNAN, Cape Town | Tuesday THE Medical Research Council (MRC) said on Tuesday it stood firmly by its controversial report on Aids deaths, and that South Africa was experiencing an epidemic of “shattering” proportions. The report, which says Aids accounted for one in four deaths in South Africa last year, came under fire from […]
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/ 16 October 2001
THE British media and financial information group Reuters unveiled plans on Tuesday to axe 500 jobs in a bid to cut annual costs by a further 30-million pounds (48-million euros, $44-million). The job cuts are in addition to 1 100 staff laid off in July, Reuters said, and will help it increase savings next year […]
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/ 16 October 2001
Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH African farmers opposed to the repatriation of some 15 000 Zimbabwean farm workers reached an out-of-court settlement with the government on Monday, giving the workers a temporary reprieve. The farmers filed for an urgent interdict in the Pretoria High Court to prevent the country from expelling the workers, whose work permits […]
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/ 16 October 2001
A WOMAN died on Friday in northern Egypt at the age of 137, according to local authorities, thus laying claim to having been the world’s longest-living person. Amina Hassabo, who died in a village in the Daquahliya governate in the Nile delta was born in 1864, according to government services. According to the Al-Wafd daily, […]
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/ 16 October 2001
A 44-year-old woman from Khorixas has been arrested for double rape after she allegedly had sexual intercourse with two young boys. One of the boys is thought to be only 10 years old. The age of his co-complainant is not known. The incident is said to have taken place near the power station at Khorixas […]
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/ 15 October 2001
ZIMBABWE has accused its former colonial master Britain of failing to play its part in implementing an agreement reached last month in a bid to end the land crisis. “There is room for the British to come back into Zimbabwe’s land reform programme. But if they squander this chance then it will take them time […]
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/ 15 October 2001
SAAMBOU said on Thursday it expected headline earnings for the six months ended 30 September to amount to about R65 million, equating to 40,7 cents per share, down from the headline earnings for the six months ended 30 September 2000 of R76-million, equating to 52,0 cents per share. Further, to comply with amended regulatory requirements, […]
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/ 15 October 2001
Harare | Monday SOUTH Africa has begun deporting some 15 000 Zimbabweans as part of a recent decision to rid the country’s farms of legal and illegal immigrant workers, state radio said on Monday. Three trucks loaded with some 400 deportees arrived at the southern border town of Beitbridge on Sunday, the radio said. South […]
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/ 15 October 2001
AUGETTO GRAIG, Windhoek | Monday THE ongoing dispute about the border between Namibia and South Africa at the Orange River came under investigation again this week after an article, published in a leading South African daily alleged that Namibia does not hold any mining rights in the Orange River and that the border on the […]
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/ 15 October 2001
THE International Monetary Fund has released $12-million in assistance for Rwanda as part of an antipoverty initiative that started in 1998, the fund said on Wednesday. “The Rwandan authorities have continued to make progress in strengthening macroeconomic management and structural reforms,” the IMF said in a statement.” This is evidenced by the continued robust economic […]
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/ 14 October 2001
EVIDENCE WA KA NGOBENI, Johannesburg | Friday THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) hid key apartheid-era military intelligence information from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The commission had investigated the wholesale disposal of apartheid-era information and concluded that all military intelligence had kept was three series of files. Each series contains thousands of […]
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/ 14 October 2001
UP to 15 000 Zimbabweans working on farms in South Africa will be deported on Monday by immigration officials, supported by the defence force and police, a home affairs official said on Wednesday. The majority working on farms on the border with Zimbabwe are here illegally, and those with permits, particularly for unskilled jobs, will […]
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/ 14 October 2001
NAWAAL DEANE, Johannesburg | Thursday THE Minister of Housing, Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele, launched a R3-million defamation action against the Mail & Guardianin the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday in response to how she fared in the paper’s 1998 Cabinet “report card”. The report card, which gave Mthembi-Mahanyele an F, referred to how the controversial Motheo housing […]
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/ 14 October 2001
Cape Town | Saturday THE leader of South Africa’s political opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has demanded the resignation of the mayor of Cape Town in the worst crisis to hit the shaky 15-month merger with the apartheid-era National Party. DA leader Tony Leon asked Mayor Peter Marais, who used to be member of the NP […]
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/ 14 October 2001
Paris | Tuesday HERE is a summary of the latest developments as US forces again strike targets in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on US cities. – US warplanes and cruise missiles targetted strategic installations in Afghanistan for a second night of reprisals. Five land-based B-1 and B-2 stealth bombers, as well […]