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/ 16 October 2003
The Treatment Action Campaign is celebrating what it calls a ”ground-breaking” decision on Thursday by the Competitions Commission that found two giant pharmaceutical firms culpable of charging excessive prices for anti-retroviral drugs and abusing their dominant positions in the market.
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/ 16 October 2003
Nascent allies India and South Africa on Thursday signed five landmark pacts and in a declaration pledged to jointly fight international terrorism, religious bigotry and drug trafficking. Earlier on Thursday, President Thabo Mbeki called for means to strengthen the strategic partnership between his country and India.
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/ 16 October 2003
Western Cape premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk must go, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday after hearing that developer Count Riccardo Agusta pleaded guilty to donating R400 000 to the New National Party to pave the way for planning approval of the Roodefontein golf estate development near Plettenberg Bay.
Marais maintains innocence
Case against Marais strengthened
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/ 16 October 2003
The Department of Health has released details of a Bill that seeks to increase dramatically fines under the anti-smoking legislation. The fine for any person who fails to control smoking on his or her premises is to go up from R200 to R20 000 for a first offence and R100 000 for a second.
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/ 16 October 2003
Jews rule the world by proxy but Muslims can defeat them through the use of brains as well as brawn, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told a major Islamic summit on Thursday.
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/ 16 October 2003
Ethiopia’s nomadic communities are still being excluded from democratic representation, the minister of federal affairs acknowledged on Wednesday. GebreAb Barnabas said that ”good governance and democratisation” had failed to ”spread adequately” to Ethiopia’s remote pastoral areas.
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/ 16 October 2003
South Africans who hold undeclared off-shore assets can now opt to make a declaration instead of applying for amnesty and paying a levy. Government’s special Amnesty Unit chairman Advocate Mbuyiseli Madlanga said in a statement on Thursday that the Exchange Control Circular No D 405, issued on September 30, provided a loophole for residents under certain circumstances.
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/ 16 October 2003
Shocked by reports of the alleged filming of the rape and murder of a Johannesburg woman, many South Africans are asking: are snuff movies real or merely an urban legend? Interviewed this week, experts in a range of disciplines simply did not know.
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/ 16 October 2003
Uncircumcised men have an eight-fold higher risk of becoming infected with HIV than circumcised men, according to a study.
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/ 16 October 2003
The state’s case against the Western Cape’s former premier Peter Marais and former environment and development MEC David Malatsi, both facing corruption charges, appears to have strengthened with developer Riccardo Agusta’s plea bargain.