Asia Africa Intelligence Wire articles from December 2001

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire archives from December 2001

CHIEFS WIN THE MANDELA CUP.
December 1, 2001... Chiefs lifted the Mandela Cup defeating Inter Clube Luanda of Angola 2-1 on aggregate in Johannesburg on Saturday. The half-time score was 0-0. Chiefs and Inter played to a 1-1 draw in the first leg in Luanda. Chiefs goal came froma Patrick...

DA SLAMS GOVT'S HANDLING OF AIDS CRISIS.
December 1, 2001... The ANC government's handling of the Aids crisis from 1994 to the present spoke of "massive denial and monstrous failure of leadership," Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Saturday. In a speech prepared for delivery at the launch of...

SAFRICA'S ANTI-AIDS LOBBY SEEKS GOVERNMENT ACTION.
December 1, 2001... South Africa's foremost anti-AIDS lobby on Saturday vowed to exert more pressure on the government in its bid to achieve adequate treatment for those infected with the disease. "Next year we're going to make sure the government adopts a...

MANDELA OPENS MULTI-MILLION ROBBEN ISLAND GATEWAY.
December 1, 2001... South Africa's most famous political prisoner and the country's first democratic president Nelson Mandela, on Saturday opened a R40-million "gateway" to Robben Island, where he was jailed for 26 years, with a plea for tolerance. "Our motto...

FANTASTIC DRAW, SAYS LEADING SOUTH AFRICAN COACH.
December 1, 2001... Spain, Paraguay and Slovenia beware! The most successful national coach of South Africa says his country are going to upset the odds and qualify from Group B of the World Cup. "A fantastic draw," said Clive Barker, the pint-size super-optimist...

"I DIDN'T CRITICISE MBEKI," SAYS MANDELA.
December 1, 2001... Former president Nelson Mandela has rejected reports that he has attacked President Thabo Mbeki's stance on HIV/Aids. Speaking at the opening of the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island in Cape Town on Saturday, Mandela accused sections of...

SA COMMEMORATES AIDS DAY IN FACE OF BLEAK STATISTICS.
December 1, 2001... As South Africa joined the international community in commemorating annual World Aids Day on Saturday, politicians, community leaders and ordinary citizens around the country paused, and in the face of bleak statistics, remembered the dead by...

SOLDIER ALLEGEDLY KILLS TAXI DRIVER.
December 1, 2001... A captain in the SA National Defence Force stationed in the Northern Province was arrested on Friday night for allegedly killing a taxi driver in Khutjoana location near Tzaneen, police said. Inspector James Ngoepe said on Saturday the captain...

COSATU CALLS ON LABOUR DEPT TO PROTECT WORKERS.
December 1, 2001... The Congress of SA Trade Unions on Saturday demanded a campaign to check conditions of workers in factories throughout the country and ensure that laws to protect workers were enforced. The call followed the death of two twin infants on...

POPCRU WELCOMES SENTENCE ON DOG UNIT COPS.
December 1, 2001... The Northern Cape branch of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has welcomed the jail sentences imposed on four policemen who set their dogs on illegal immigrants in a 1998 "training exercise". In a statement released on Saturday...

Congo (MRB Dec 2001): Transitional leadership remains sticking point for warring parties.
December 1, 2001... (MRB Dec 2001) Preliminary meetings in Abuja, Nigeria, between representatives of the warring parties in the DR Congo have lead to stalemate. As a result the planned summit which the Belgian diplomats have been trying to convene between...

Congo (MRB Dec 2001): Uranium allegedly smuggled to Iraq.
December 1, 2001... (MRB Dec 2001) An unknown quantity of Congolese enriched uranium-235, the kind used for the making of atomic bombs, and at least 10 kg of uranium-238 have been supplied by a Congolese network to Iraq or North Korea through Italy and Libya, the...

South Africa (MRB Dec 2001): Rising domestic problems may impinge on regional involvement.
December 1, 2001... The SA government is seeking ways to ride the twin pressures of domestic friction stemming from its weak economy and instability in the wider region, where it is becoming increasingly involved, diplomatically and militarily. Inside the country...

Region (MRB Dec 2001): SA troops try charm offensive in Burundi to deflect hostility.
December 1, 2001... With Burundian gendarmes still protecting the SA protectors' headquarters in Bujumbura, the South African military command there has been operating a 'charm offensive' among the media in a bid to defuse hostility. SA Defence Minister...

Zimbabwe (MRB Dec 2001): US offers sweetener as sanctions threaten and SADC backs Mugabe.
December 1, 2001... (MRB Dec 2001) The US government this month offered US$26 million as a sweetener if President Robert Mugabe met the conditions set in the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Bill, passed by the US Senate this month and now awaiting...

DEVELOPMENT: South Africa (MRB Dec 2001): Government races against time and events to secure stability and growth.
December 1, 2001... (MRB Dec 2001) Along with the collapsing Rand and signs of a rise in the basic cost of living came new SA figures revealing increasing mass poverty in tandem with greater and highly visible Black access to the wealthiest stratum of society....

AID: Congo (MRB Dec 2001): Europeans disagree over co-operation package.
December 1, 2001... (MRB Dec 2001) At their General Affairs Council held on December 10, European foreign ministers were unable to agree upon a proposal from the Belgian presidency to fix a date for the signature of the DR Congo's National Indicative Programme....

AID: Tanzania (MRB Dec 2001): $3 bn debt service relief agreed.
December 1, 2001... The World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed last month that Tanzania has taken the steps necessary to reach its completion point under the enhanced framework of the Heavily...

ECONOMY: South Africa (MRB Dec 2001): AIDS effects will slow economic upturn.
December 1, 2001... Just as the South African economy begins to move out of recession in 2003 the economic effect of AIDS will start to kick in, business leaders heard at a conference this month. Already there was a correlation between AIDS prevalence and some...

ECONOMY: South Africa (MRB Dec 2001): Price of food rises as Rand falls.
December 1, 2001... (MRB Dec 2001) While inflation in South Africa has until now been kept at a relatively low level, it is expected that there will soon be sharp rises in the price of basic foods as a result of the precipitous fall in the value of the Rand. The...

INFRASTRUCTURE: International (MRB Dec 2001): South Africa, China to sign nuclear energy pact.
December 1, 2001... China and South Africa are expected shortly to sign a co-operation agreement on nuclear energy, following the official visit of President Thabo Mbeki and a large team including government ministers and business leaders to Beijing last month....

INFRASTRUCTURE: Region (MRB Dec 2001): World Bank backs hydropower.
December 1, 2001... The World Bank's International Finance Corporation affiliate is to provide up to $60 million, a potential loan of up to $40 million, and a risk management facility of up to $10 million for the massive Bujagali Hydropower Project in Uganda....

COMMODITIES: Angola (MRB Dec 2001): Sonangol to lose as oil demand falls.
December 1, 2001... Angolan state oil company Sonangol may lose some of its leverage over international oil companies because of the falling demand for oil in the current world recession and a consequent fall-off in competition by the oil majors for drilling...

Schoolgirl torturer's sentence confirmed.
December 1, 2001... (From Mainichi Daily News) Japan's top court has confirmed an 18-year sentence handed down to a man who held an elementary schoolgirl captive at knifepoint for days, beating and binding her throughout her ordeal. In dismissing the...

EAST RAND POLICE ARREST 354 IN WEEKEND RAIDS.
December 2, 2001... East Rand police from all station areas carried out raids on Saturday and Sunday on a crime-prevention mission --- and made 354 arrests in the process. Police spokesman Superintendent Andy Pieke said the crimes of the arrested people related...

MDC CALLS ON ZIM CITIZENS IN SA TO VOTE.
December 2, 2001... The main Zimbabwean opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has called on all Zimbabwean citizens living in South Africa to register for the forthcoming presidential election, SABC television reported on Sunday. Hundreds of...

SPATE OF VIOLENT DEATHS HIT DURBAN AREA.
December 2, 2001... The Durban area suffered a spate of violent deaths at the weekend. Of six salient murders on which the police were working, five of the victims' bodies were dumped at the roadside or in the bush, said SA Police Service spokesman Captain Len...

P2:Highlights in Southern African history, compiled by Sapa.
December 2, 2001... DECEMBER 9: 1867 -- The British Cabinet assents to the annexation of Basutoland. 1941 -- South African armoured cars take part in the pursuit of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps as it retreats towards El Agheila in North Africa in...

FIVE MONTH OLD BABY RAPED IN JOUBERT PARK.
December 2, 2001... A five-month-old baby girl was admitted to the Johannesburg Hospital on Saturday night after being raped in Joubert Park hours earlier, Johannesburg police said on Sunday morning. Police spokesman Captain Lungelo Dlamini said it is alleged that...

EAST LONDON WOMAN TO FACE MURDER CHARGE.
December 2, 2001... A 31-year-old woman is expected to appear in an East London court on Monday after her boyfriend was stabbed to death, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday. Captain Michelle Matroos said the woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend, 30, after he had...

[0] FIVE MONTH OLD BABY RAPED IN JOUBERT PARK.
December 2, 2001... (SUBS: CHANGES SLUG FROM CRIME-BABY, EDITS THROUGHOUT) A five-month-old baby girl was admitted to the Johannesburg Hospital on Saturday night after being raped in Joubert Park hours earlier, Johannesburg police said on Sunday morning. Police...

ANTHRAX SCARE IN EAST LONDON.
December 2, 2001... Results of a forensic test on a white powder found during the delivery of goods in East London on Saturday would be known in a few days, Eastern Cape police said. Captain Michelle Matroos on Sunday said the white powder, which could be anthrax,...

MEETING CALLED OVER BOTSWANA MEDIA BILL.
December 2, 2001... The Botswana Chapter of Transparency International (Tibot) and the Media Institute of Southern Africa have called a public seminar for December 13 to consider the implications of a Media Bill which the government is to place before parliament....

THREE CHILD RAPES REPORTED IN NCAPE.
December 2, 2001... At least three cases of child rapes were reported in the Northern Cape since the start of the weekend, police said on Sunday morning. In the first incident a six-year-old girl was allegedly raped and sodomised by her 32-year-old uncle in...

TWO MEN FOUND DEAD, WOMAN RAPED IN PRETORIA AT THE WEEKEND.
December 2, 2001... A Soweto man was found dead outside a tavern in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, on Saturday, Inspector Piletji Sebola said. He said patrons at the tavern went to investigate after they heard two gunshots. When they arrived around 4am, they found...

WOMAN SHOT OUTSIDE TUCKSHOP.
December 2, 2001... A woman was shot and injured while standing outside a tuckshop in Inchanga in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on Saturday evening, police said on Sunday. Inspector Les Botha said a man approached three women at the shop and asked to buy beer. He...

COP SHOT DEAD NEAR UMTATA.
December 2, 2001... A 26-year-old policeman was shot dead by four men near in Qumbu in the Umtata area on Friday, Eastern Cape police reported on Sunday. Captain Mzukisi Fatyela said two policemen, based at Qumbu police station, were searching for a maroon Hyundai...

LEON WELCOMES MBEKI STANCE ON ZIM.
December 2, 2001... Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Sunday welcomed President Thabo Mbeki's tougher stance on Zimbabwe. Leon said in a statement that Mbeki's policy of "quiet diplomacy" had given Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe the impression that he...

MAN ARRESTED FOR VICTORIA-WEST MURDER.
December 2, 2001... A 46-year-old man was arrested in Victoria-West in the Northern Cape on Sunday morning for allegedly raping and murdering a 77-year-old woman, police said. Pauline Retief's body was discovered on the bedroom floor of her house in Victoria-West...

DA LAUNCHES LOBBY GROUP.
December 2, 2001... The Association of Democratic Alliance Councillors (ADAC) was launched in Alberton, south of Johannesburg, during the weekend. "The aims of ADAC include effective communication between DA local government caucuses and with DA local government...

SA NEEDS A LEADER IN AIDS FIGHT: COOVADIA.
December 2, 2001... South Africa needed someone with independence and imagination to lead its fight against HIV/Aids, one of the country's foremost experts on the disease Prof Jerry Coovadia said on Sunday. "We really need to invest in a leadership on this...

PACKAGE FOR PITYANA A JOKE: MOTIMELE.
December 2, 2001... University of SA (Unisa) council chairman McCaps Motimele has dismissed speculation that newly-appointed principal Barney Pityana could receive a severance package of up to R3,5-million. "That is a joke," he said on the SABC programme Newsmaker...

UNION LAYS HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT AGAINST SARFU.
December 2, 2001... Labour union MWU-Solidarity has lodged a complaint of racial discrimination with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) on behalf of five senior rugby administrators. MWU-Solidarity...

UDM PREPARES QUESTIONS FOR ARMS DEAL INVESTIGATORS.
December 2, 2001... The United Democratic Movement has prepared about 30 detailed questions on the arms procurement process to put before the joint investigation team this week. UDM leader Bantu Holomisa said in a statement on Sunday his party would grill the...

MASETLHA STAYS AS HOME AFFAIRS DG.
December 2, 2001... Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi will be going into the new year with the same director-general, despite his repeated attempts to get President Thabo Mbeki to fire him. Buthelezi, who is also leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, has...

ANCYL TO PROTEST AGAINST RACISM, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ABUSE.
December 2, 2001... The African National Congress Youth League will stage protests at justice departments in the Free State, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday to highlight women and child abuse. This was announced by ANCYL president Malusi Gigaba at a press...

JOUBERT PARK BABY IN STABLE CONDITION.
December 2, 2001... A five-month-old baby girl who was raped in Joubert Park on Saturday night was in a stable condition in the Johannesburg Hospital on Sunday afternoon. The senior matron on call said the girl went to theatre on Saturday night for an examination....

THREE DEAD AFTER ACCIDENT OUTSIDE WARDEN.
December 2, 2001... Three people were killed and three seriously injured in an accident outside Warden in the eastern Free State on Saturday morning, police said on Sunday. The accident happened when a tyre burst on a Toyota Tazz that was travelling on the R103...

[0] JOUBERT PARK BABY IN STABLE CONDITION.
December 2, 2001... A five-month-old baby girl who was raped in Joubert Park on Saturday night was in a stable condition in the Johannesburg Hospital on Sunday afternoon. The senior matron on call said the girl went to theatre on Saturday night for an examination....

THE EXPECTED MIN AND MAX TEMPS FOR TOMORROW.
December 2, 2001... EXPECTED MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES FOR TOMORROW: 2001-12-03. ISSUED AT 16:00 SAST BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE. MIN MAX Pretoria 15 28 Johannesburg 14 26 Vereeniging 14 27 Nelspruit 18 23 Ermelo 12 19 Witbank 13 23 Standerton 11...

THE REGIONAL FORECAST FOR TOMORROW:.
December 2, 2001... THE REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR TOMORROW: 2001-12-03. ISSUED AT 16:00 SAST BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE. GAUTENG: Partly cloudy and warm. The expected UVB sunburn index in Pretoria: Very Dangerous. MPUMALANGA: Morning fog patches...

FREE STATE MAN COULD BE A THREAT TO CHILDREN: POLICE.
December 2, 2001... (SUBS: NOTE GRAPHIC DETAILS SUPPLIED BY POLICE) Free State police are searching for a man who is reported to be a serious threat to children in the eastern part of the province. Eastern Free State police spokeswoman Captain Veronica Ntepe on...

FORMER AZAPO NEGOTIATOR JOINS DA.
December 2, 2001... Former chief negotiator for the Azanian Peoples Organisation, John Kubeka, has joined the Democratic Alliance. The DA announced in a statement on Sunday that Kubeka, a former councillor in the Lekoa-Vaal transitional metropolitan council, had...

ANC NEC CONDEMNS AIDS COURT ACTION.
December 2, 2001... The ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) criticised the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Sunday for taking the government to court over the use of Nevirapine. "The NEC viewed as unfortunate the court case brought against government by the...

TWO MEN ARRESTED AFTER JOUBERT PARK BABY RAPE.
December 2, 2001... Two men were arrested on Sunday afternoon for allegedly raping a five-month-old girl in Joubert Park, Johannesburg police said. Police were currently questioning the two men, aged 17 and 24, Captain Lungelo Dlamini said. The two were arrested...

TWO MEN ARRESTED AFTER JOUBERT PARK BABY RAPE.
December 2, 2001... Two men were arrested on Sunday afternoon for allegedly raping a five-month-old girl in Joubert Park on Saturday night, Johannesburg police said. Police were currently questioning the two men, aged 17 and 24, Captain Lungelo Dlamini said. The...

YOUNG MEN DEFEND WOMEN AND CHILDREN: ANCYL.
December 2, 2001... The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) will stage mass protests at justice departments in the Free State, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday to highlight women and child abuse. This was announced by ANCYL president Malusi Gigaba...

NNP DEMANDS CHILD ABUSE ACTION PLAN.
December 2, 2001... The New National Party on Sunday called for an emergency plan to address the increasing number of child rapes. "The government should send out a clear message that child rapists will be tracked down and removed from society," safety and...

CROWD STONE AND BEAT MAN AFTER CHILD RAPE.
December 2, 2001... A crowd of 200 people stoned and beat a man who had allegedly raped a ten-year-old girl in Kamesh township outside Uitenhage on Sunday morning, Eastern Cape police said. The girl was asleep at 1.30am when her mother's boyfriend allegedly raped...

FREE STATE SUFFERS SCOURGE OF CHILD RAPES.
December 2, 2001... (SUBS: NOTE GRAPHIC DETAILS SUPPLIED BY POLICE) Four teenagers and ten children, aged between six and 12, were raped in several incidents in the Bethlehem area in the eastern Free State over the weekend, police said on Sunday. Captain Veronice...

Police from the Johannesburg organised crime unit on Sunday.
December 2, 2001... arrested a second person in Wattville, Benoni, in connection with forged R200 banknotes, bringing the total value of forged notes to R1-million. East Rand police spokesman Supt Andy Pieke said the second arrest was the result of follow-up...

KZN TRANSPORT MEC WARNS BUS COMPANIES.
December 2, 2001... KwaZulu-Natal Transport MEC S'bu Ndebele warned bus companies on Sunday that their operating licences would be withdrawn if they did not take reasonable precautions to ensure their buses were safe. Ndebele's warning comes after a bus crash on...

UMTATA TAXI DRIVER ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED ARMS POSSESSION.
December 2, 2001... A 39-year-old taxi driver was arrested for the alleged possession of two unlicensed firearms and ammunition in Umtata on Friday, police said on Sunday. Captain Mzukisi Fatyela said the Scorpions and the Cross-Border taxi task team had received...

DA OPENS DOOR TO ABANDONED NATS.
December 2, 2001... The Democratic Alliance has amended its interim constitution to allow 10 former Nationalists to be part of the DA's national management committee (NMC). MP James Selfe, who is the NMC chairman, said in a media statement on Sunday: "Effectively...

SA SUFFERS SCOURGE OF CHILD RAPES.
December 2, 2001... Chaos reigned in South Africa over the weekend as dozens more children were raped and abused across the country. A five-month-old baby became one of the latest victims, raped by two men in Joubert Park, Johannesburg. In the Free State, boys...

TWO WOMEN HELD FOR AXE MURDER.
December 2, 2001... Two women were arrested on Friday after a 61-year-old man was axed to death and his common-law wife injured on a farm in Middelburg, Eastern Cape, police said on Sunday. Captain Erris Claassen said farm worker Klaas Williams, 61, died on the...

MONDAY IS INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DISABLED.
December 2, 2001... Ninety-nine percent of the 4,8-million disabled people in South Africa are unemployed, Disability Resource Solutions said on Sunday. Managing director Lorna Fick said on the eve of the International Day for the Disabled that one in four...

CTN PRESS CLUB CONDEMNS ZIM PRESS RESTRICTIONS.
December 2, 2001... The Cape Town Press Club voiced its solidarity on Sunday night with Zimbabwe's independent journalists and foreign correspondents, and condemned the Zimbabwean government's restrictions on the media. Club chairman William Smook said: "We regard...

WOULD-BE HIJACKER, VICTIM BOTH KILLED.
December 2, 2001... Thomas Ntombeni, in his late 40s, arrived at his home at Block W, Soshanguve in his Mercedes motor car on Saturday night, but moments later he was fatally shot in the head by a would-be hijacker who was himself shot dead. Police spokesman...

ALBERTON MAN SHOT, CAR STOLEN.
December 2, 2001... A young Alberton man was murdered and his car stolen around 8pm on Saturday, East Rand police said. Superintendent Andy Pieke said on Sunday that Ryan Adams, aged about 20, parked his white Volkswagen Golf in Carolina Road, Verwoerd Park at a...

POLICE ARREST 73 IN WEST RAND SWOOP.
December 2, 2001... Police arrested 73 people for several offences in an organised crime operation on the West Rand over the weekend, Gauteng police said on Sunday. Captain Paula Nothnagel said the police swooped on clubs and taverns in Roodepoort, Florida,...

[0] DA OPENS DOOR TO ABANDONED NATS.
December 2, 2001... (SUBS: FIXES SLUG) The Democratic Alliance has amended its interim constitution to allow 10 former Nationalists to be part of the DA's national management committee (NMC). MP James Selfe, who is the NMC chairman, said in a media statement on...

ANC NEC CONDEMNS AIDS COURT ACTION.
December 2, 2001... (SUBS: LEADS WITH NEC SAYING ASSUMPTION IS HIV CAUSES AIDS) The ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) criticised the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Sunday for taking the government to court over the use of Nevirapine. "The NEC viewed as...

WEAK RAND SEES PLATINUM GROUP METALS RALLY.
December 3, 2001... Resources and particularly platinum shares sparkled Monday while financials came under pressure on the JSE. Sasol (+2,9 percent to R87,50), Billiton (+2,44 percent to R50,30), and Anglo (+3,1 percent to R159,20) continued their rand-hedge...

SA, FRENCH NAVIES IN RESCUE EXERCISE.
December 3, 2001... South African and French maritime rescue services join forces off the southern Cape coast this week for a major disaster simulation exercise. The exercise will seek to create a challenge of the magnitude of the sinking of the cruise liner...

TWO TEENS RAPED IN THE MOLOPO POLICING AREA.
December 3, 2001... Two teenaged girls were raped in separate incidents in Mmabatho and Mafikeng at the weekend, North West Province police said on Monday. Inspector Job Mothibi said a 16-year-old was raped at Mmabatho in the first of the two incidents on Friday...

ECONOMISTS SEE NO RESPITE FOR RAND.
December 3, 2001... Don't expect an improvement in the rand exchange rate soon, according to leading economists who expect it to trade at about R10,35 to the dollar during December, and to end next year at R11,15. By Monday late it was at R10,43, after hitting a...

(EMBARGO: NOT FOR PUBLICATION/B'CAST BEFORE 7.30PM MONDAY.).
December 3, 2001... AFRICA STILL RECOVERING FROM COLONIALISM: FRASER-MOLEKETI Africa has never fully recovered from the consequences of its colonial legacy, says Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi. Speaking in Cape Town on Monday...

MPs TO QUIZ INVESTIGATORS ON ARMS DEAL ON TUESDAY.
December 3, 2001... Members of seven parliamentary committees will get their first opportunity on Tuesday to quiz the three-agency investigating team on their findings on the multi-billion rand arms deal. Auditor-General Shauket Fakie, Public Protector Selby Baqwa...

NDHLELA TRIAL STARTS IN JOHANNESBURG.
December 3, 2001... (SUBS: CORRECTS AMOUNT FROM R10-M TO R734557 IN 2ND PAR) The trial of former Premier Soccer League chief executive Joe Ndhlela got underway in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Monday. Ndhlela is accused of three counts of fraud and corruption...

GRUB'S UP -- OR ARE WE CURRYING SOME ANCESTORS?
December 3, 2001... (SUBS: This story goes with FEATURE-MAURITIUS-ACTIVITIES, FEATURE-MAURITIUS-HOTELS and FEATURE-MAURITIUS-BACKGROUND) Having the relatives over for supper can take on a whole new meaning according to a recipe book found on store shelves in the...

SA COMMEMORATES INTERNATIONAL DISABLED DAY.
December 3, 2001... There was still much progress needed in South Africa's accommodation of disabled people, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on the International Day for the Disabled. "While noting progress made, we are also aware of the challenges that still...

UNRULY CROWD CAUSED ELLIS PARK STAMPEDE, HEARING TOLD.
December 3, 2001... Unruly behaviour by fans was one of the major causes of the stampede that led to the deaths of 43 people at Ellis Park stadium on April 11, a commission of inquiry into the disaster heard on Monday. In his closing arguments, evidence leader...

Please hold story slugged "COURT-PITBULLS" ex CAPE TOWN dated Dec 3.
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