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/ 14 December 2001
CLAIRE KEETON, Pretoria | Friday SOUTH Africa’s government must provide HIV treatment to pregnant women to help prevent transmission of the Aids-causing virus to their unborn children, the High Court ruled in Pretoria on Friday. The landmark decision swept aside the official line that such treatment was impracticable, given the scale of the problem in […]
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/ 14 December 2001
Phindi Molefe (22), an entrant in ”Miss Fats” South Africa 2001, waits backstage for her number to be called. Last Friday evening the Johannesburg Civic trembled under the pudgy feet of 12 hopefuls vying for the title of the most voluptuous in the land. The only entry criterion is that contestants weigh in at a […]
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/ 14 December 2001
TRIALISTS of the historic Liliesleaf Rivonia Trial will on Saturday meet in a reunion for the first time in 38 years. Nadine Bainbridge, a representative for the Liliesleaf Rivonia Trialist Reunion organisers, said on Monday the function — at the history-making Rivonia farm — would bring together for the first time all those closely associated […]
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/ 14 December 2001
A programme that aims to ”plant” the ethics of conservation in the value system of teenagers has been launched in KZN, writes Niki Moore The sound of cicadas in the midday heat of the Umfolozi valley is deafening. Of course, if youre sitting in an air-conditioned office in Sandton, you wouldnt know that. You wouldnt […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Western Cape Premier Peter Marais confirmed that the province will continue to provide ARVs, including nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant women.
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/ 13 December 2001
In 1940 two suspected FBI agents turned up in southern Spain looking for a birth certificate. Could this document have held a secret Walt Disney was desperate to hide? As the Disney corporation celebrates its founder’s centenary, Giles Tremlett visits the town that believes Uncle Walt is one of the family.
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/ 13 December 2001
Kano | Thursday ANGRY Muslims beat to death a Christian truck driver who accidentally reversed his lorry over a copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, witnesses said on Wednesday. The 42-year-old ethnic Igbo driver, locally known by the nickname of Saint Moritz, was reversing in a well-known fruit market in the northern city […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s labour legislation, coupled with the lack of skills among the majority of prospective employees, were responsible for the rising tide of unemployment, according to the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). In its 55th annual South Africa survey released in Johannesburg on Wednesday, SAIRR said the current 26 percent unemployment […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Gerhusirnay, Ethiopia | Thursday A YEAR after Ethiopia and Eritrea ended a bloody border war, people displaced by the conflict still cannot work their fields because of landmines, humanitarian officials say. “A lot of people have returned to their homes but have no access to their farmland because of landmine issues, and that is true […]
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/ 13 December 2001
Johannesburg | Thursday THREE of the four men convicted for the 1999 murder of two black men in Parys in the Free State, were sentenced on Thursday to 20-years in prison in the town’s circuit court. The fourth man, a former policeman, received a 17-year sentence. On Wednesday the three young men, Johannes Mattheys Smith […]