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/ 8 December 2005
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund opted out of a big bash for underprivileged kids this year, and will instead deliver gifts to schools, it said on Wednesday. This was done in an attempt to ”minimise exposing children to unnecessary difficulties”, the fund said in a statement.
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/ 8 December 2005
It is time to rethink the strategies used so far in the fight against HIV/Aids as they have shown their limitations, particularly in Africa, according to Michel Sidibe, the Malian who is deputy head of UNAids, the body coordinating the fight against the
pandemic.
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/ 8 December 2005
If found guilty, he could face the gallows. But since the start of his trial, deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has shown indifference for his victims, aggression to his judges and no regret for his more than two decades in power. Saddam has yet to reveal any hint of weakness in the face of the graphic and sometimes gruesome testimony from witnesses who stood just metres away from him.
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/ 8 December 2005
An investigation was under way on Wednesday night into the fatal shooting of a mentally unstable passenger by federal air marshals at Miami airport. Officials said the passenger, a 44-year-old American man, Rigoberto Alpizar, had claimed he had a bomb in his hand luggage and was asked to leave the plane, an American Airlines flight to Orlando, while it was still at the gate.
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/ 7 December 2005
No news would be good news for ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma right now. But if he could choose, what model for a pan-African TV news channel would reduce his humiliation in the eyes of the continent?
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/ 7 December 2005
Telkom congratulated its first and only competitor on Wednesday for completing the second network operator licensing process, saying it looked forward to the competition. A recent report said that about half of South Africa’s top 350 companies would consider switching to the SNO if it got off the ground.
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Jacob Zuma will be the African National Congress’ deputy president in name only until his rape trial is over, the party said on Wednesday following Zuma’s decision to suspend himself from leadership structures.
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/ 7 December 2005
Zimbabwe Cricket chairperson Peter Chingoka and managing director Osias Bvute will be charged with contravening the Exchange Control Act, police said Wednesday. Chingoka and Bvute were arrested Tuesday and remain in police custody.
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/ 7 December 2005
The South African Competition Tribunal has, with a condition, ruled in favour of Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) in a deal that will see the investment firm increasing its stake in Johnnic Holdings. HCI owns a regional youth radio station Yfm, free-to-air e.tv and co-owns the two-year-old Tsogo Sun with Johnnic and SABMiller.