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Nearly half of South Africans aged 15 and older find nothing wrong with marrying an HIV-positive person and would not have a problem having sex with them. This is according to the Second South African HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communications Survey released on Wednesday, on the eve of World Aids Day.
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/ 30 November 2005
United States President George Bush, facing growing doubts about his war strategy, said on Wednesday that Iraqi troops are increasingly taking the lead in battle, but that ”this will take time and patience”. In a speech defending his policy, Bush said Iraqi forces have made substantial progress in the past year.
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A hostage drama at the Department of Home Affairs in Johannesburg entered a third hour at 5.30pm on Wednesday with a Soweto man holding a woman employee in an office behind closed doors, police said. The man entered the offices this afternoon, took out a handgun and pointed it at the woman.
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The Constitutional Court will rule on Thursday on whether gay marriages are legal. Last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that two women, Marie Fourie and Cecilia Bonthuys, should be allowed to get married, but the couple later found they were unable to register their church wedding with the Department of Home Affairs.
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Angela Merkel addressed Parliament for the first time as German Chancellor on Wednesday, faced with an urgent test over a kidnapped German woman in Iraq and the long-term challenge of reviving the country’s moribund economy. Merkel said the government will set to work to return the country to its status as an economic powerhouse.
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The United States economy grew at a lively 4,3% pace from July to September, the best showing in more than a year. The performance offers fresh testimony that the country’s overall economic health managed to improve despite the destructive force of Gulf Coast hurricanes.
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There is confusion among older South Africans about the link between HIV and Aids, the effectiveness of condoms in curbing infections, and the purpose of anti-retrovirals. This is one of the findings of the Second South African HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communications Survey released on Wednesday.
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/ 30 November 2005
Egypt’s month-long parliamentary elections enter their third and final phase on Thursday with Islamists continuing their impressive run and judges pressing for guarantees against state interference. The extent of the Muslim Brotherhood’s gains in the first two phases of voting took everybody by surprise.
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”We all know we live beyond our means, that we buy too easily on impulse and to impress people, and that we do not save nearly enough, but after a session with financial guru Suze Orman, I began to feel committed to actually doing something about it,” writes Maya Fisher-French.
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Eastern Cape land affairs and agriculture minister Gugile Nkwinti has sparked controversy between game farmers and the government by attacking game farms as ”elitist”. ”There is a recolonisation of the countryside. Game farms are taking over,” he told a meeting of farm workers and residents in Grahamstown.