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/ 2 December 2005
South African doctors are going head to head with the government over alleged unregulated clinical trials on HIV-positive South Africans using the controversial Dr Matthias Rath’s unregistered vitamins. The South African Medical Association has joined the Treatment Action Campaign in suing the South African government.
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/ 2 December 2005
Zimbabwe’s finance minister announced the government’s annual Budget on Thursday, but the worst economic crisis since independence in 1980 left him little room to maneuver other than to juggle with numbers, analysts said. Herbert Murerwa predicted economic growth next year of between two and three percent, pinning his hopes on increased agricultural production.
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/ 2 December 2005
It’s the end of an era at Sun City this week. The ”Million Dollar” that inflation forced to become the ”Two Million Dollar” and then the ”Nedbank Golf Challenge” will have a celebratory party on Sunday night, before reappearing in a markedly different guise next year. No one is prepared to reveal the sponsor’s plans for the tournament just yet.
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/ 2 December 2005
This week, Bernie Ecclestone, the most controversial entrepreneur in sport, discussed the deal that resulted in the sale by him and a German bank of 75% of formula one to a Luxembourg-based investment company last week for a sum reported to be about £600-million.
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/ 2 December 2005
”You should have seen me at 16,” Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink sighs with amazement as he begins to describe the desperate and reckless life that almost ruined him. ”One of those bad boys, running with a gang, trying to look cool and act hard. I thought I was a tough guy, stealing or scaring people with my friends. Crazy, huh?”
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/ 2 December 2005
A few years ago, Fiorentina experienced so many lows it is difficult to establish a nadir. The last one, which happened in the 2002, makes La Viola’s rise to second in this season’s Serie A even more remarkable. And it is all down to the efficient work of a rather vain shoe magnate.
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/ 2 December 2005
Bernard Hopkins, still seething over the controversial decision that saw Jermain Taylor take away his undisputed world middleweight title, says he won’t leave it to the judges in Saturday’s rematch. ”December 3 is going to rectify the system’s problems,” vowed Hopkins, who at 40 knows he has little time left to cement his status in ring history.
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/ 2 December 2005
John McEnroe is set to play doubles once again on the main ATP tour next year despite being 46-years-old. McEnroe, currently competing in the Masters event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, is to partner Swedish doubles specialist Jonas Bjorkman in a tournament in San Jose starting on February 13.
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/ 2 December 2005
Fast food group Famous Brands on Friday reported that turnover for the September quarter had increased 18%, reflecting robust growth from existing restaurants, complemented by revenue achieved from the addition of a further 45
restaurants over the past three months across the group’s franchise network.
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/ 2 December 2005
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has changed his tune about the dangers of an economic underclass in South Africa, says official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. He noted on Friday that Manuel said Cape Town would one day see the kind of riots that gripped Paris and other cities across France in November.