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Stop fence-sitting and speak out about HIV, the Inkatha Freedom Party told President Thabo Mbeki on the eve of World Aids Day. ”Come off the fence … admit the high-profile people who are dying of HIV and become a role model for openness,” IFP health spokesperson Ruth Rabinowitz said on Wednesday.
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The Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre in Soweto, which has fallen into disrepair since its construction 30 years ago, is getting a multimillion-rand facelift that will provide a major boost for the development of the game. On Wednesday, it was announced that R4,5-million has been raised to fund the project that will restore the centre to its former glory.
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Aston Villa was eliminated from the League Cup on Tuesday, losing 3-0 to lower-ranked Doncaster, while Arsenal advanced to the quarterfinals with a 3-0 win over Reading. Doncaster, a League One club sitting 38 places below the Premier League side, reached the quarterfinals of the League Cup for the first time in 30 years.
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Liberia’s new president elect, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, said on Wednesday that she hoped to find a role for her defeated rival George Weah in a broad-based government. Weah, a former football star and a hero to many of Liberia’s unemployed youth, lost to Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia’s first election since the end of its latest 14-year bout of civil war.
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The United Nations food agency is setting up ”pit stops” providing lifesaving information about Aids to food-aid truck drivers and the communities they pass through in some of the world’s most infected countries. The first centre opened its doors at Malawi’s Mwanza border crossing in October.
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The electricity supply to consumers in the Western Cape was interrupted twice in November — but the Koeberg nuclear power station was not the cause of the supply interruptions, the Department of Public Enterprises said on Wednesday. ”On both occasions, Koeberg reacted exactly as it was designed to do,” the department said.
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The JSE was weaker at midday on Wednesday, with resources and mining counters under pressure from lower commodities prices. Gold and platinum prices touched respective highs of $500 an ounce and $1 000/oz on Tuesday, but have since retreated.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs has been in talks with Equatorial Guinea’s representative in Pretoria in an effort to secure the release of two air-crew members stranded there as pawns in a dispute between aviation companies. Spokesperson Nomafela Kota confirmed this on Wednesday.
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More than 200Â 000 people were left without power on Tuesday on Spain’s Canary Islands after Tropical Storm Delta wreaked havoc on the popular winter tourist destination, killing at least seven people and causing serious damage. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Epsilon is centred about 1Â 280km east of Bermuda.
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In the sandy compound of his extended family’s home, six-year-old Manuel Rafael is playing with his cousins. He doesn’t know he is HIV-positive, and doesn’t understand his grandmother’s explanation in Portuguese about how he could have died but for the anti-retroviral treatment he began when he was just a year old.