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/ 3 September 2004
A Muslim couple is suing the department of health in the Western Cape for R5-million after their baby daughter became infected with HIV under mysterious circumstances at one of two leading paediatric hospitals. The unprecedented action has major ramifications for hospital health regimes, as well as for other parents in the same predicament.
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/ 3 September 2004
Who among us can honestly say that our children have never done anything a little bit naughty? Going into next door’s garden to get their ball back without asking; funding military coups in Third World countries with an eye to making an illegal fortune. No child is perfect and they grow out of these things; he’s only 51, for goodness sake.
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/ 3 September 2004
The official opposition Democratic Alliance has welcomed Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s overhaul of the telecommunications sector by loosening the grip of the current fixed line monopoly, Telkom. "Telkom’s stranglehold on the internet and value-added network services has been holding South Africa back," said shadow communications minister Dene Smuts.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=121577">Minister eases ICT restrictions</a>
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/ 3 September 2004
All of the Russian school where hundreds had been held hostage since Wednesday is now under control of Russian special forces, following a series of explosions and heavy gunfire from both sides. According to AP, 250 people were wounded in the school — 180 of them children. At least 10 people, children and adults, were killed.
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/ 3 September 2004
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana’s blistering attack on the national Department of Education this week has blown the lid off tensions simmering between the two departments since 2001. Until Mdladlana’s outburst, the rift had been officially denied.
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/ 3 September 2004
Spring has sprung, bringing with it a burst of energy in the cultural sector. Johannesburg celebrates the seasonal change with a series of jazz concerts. Last weekend was the sell-out Joy of Jazz in Newtown. On Sunday it is the turn of the northern suburbs and the mother of all jazz concerts — Zoo Lake’s Jazz on the Lake.
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/ 3 September 2004
Car-wash businesses are the latest product of that grey area known as the second economy, which gave the world street hawkers, spaza shops, shebeens and the ubiquitous public-phone business. Car-wash initiatives can be set up with little capital and operate on a shoestring budget. So, when John Pele found himself unemployed and in need of money for higher education, he opened a car-wash business.
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/ 3 September 2004
Last year 39% of black South Africans believed they were the victims of land injustices in the past. A year later this figure has risen to 55%. A rapid rise in perceived land grievances is one of the startling findings in the first set of results from a national opinion poll conducted by Markinor for the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation in May this year.
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/ 3 September 2004
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana’s department has stepped in to resolve a fallout between a major labour union and one of the government’s skills development agencies. This intervention comes hot on the heels of a decision by the Food and Allied Workers Union to withdraw some members from the board of Setasa, the sector education and training authority for secondary agriculture.
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/ 3 September 2004
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday finally accepted US ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell after negotiations with the US government. Mugabe had said Dell would not be welcome to Harare after the remarks which had been spun in the official press to look like demands for "regime change".