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/ 3 November 2006
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) may suspend its call for Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to quit as health minister — if the government "shows the leadership on HIV/Aids we have been asking for over the past five years". TAC general secretary Sipho Mthathi made this declaration after a remarkable week in which Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge pledged to work with Aids organisations to fight HIV.
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/ 3 November 2006
The Directorate of Special Operations of the National Prosecuting Authority has raided two homes of former Limpopo premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi, he said in a statement on Friday. The raids relate to allegations made against him with respect to alleged corruption in Limpopo, he said.
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/ 3 November 2006
The pilot of a light aircraft was killed when his plane crashed into a house north of Durban on Friday afternoon. Witnesses at Sgodiphola, 40km north of Tongaat on the R614 road to Greytown, said the plane was already in flames before it hit the house in foggy weather. It is believed that the aircraft took off from Virginia airport in Durban.
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/ 3 November 2006
A witness in the trial of a white Zimbabwean security expert, Michael Hitschmann, has claimed the man planned to kill four prominent businessmen as a bad-taste birthday present for President Robert Mugabe, it was reported on Friday. The four were ruling-party businessmen and officials based in the cities of Mutare and Bulawayo.
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/ 3 November 2006
The two men accused of the murders of actor Brett Goldin and fashion designer Richard Bloom will go on trial in the Cape High Court in March next year, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday. Magistrate Hafeesa Mohamed remanded Clinton Davids (22) and Shavaan Marlie (25) to December 14.
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/ 3 November 2006
Black economic empowerment (BEE) business deals worth R285-billion have been concluded in South Africa in the past 10 years, the government said on Friday, but details on the beneficiaries were scant. Critics contend that these deals benefit a small black elite representing faceless beneficiary groups.
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/ 3 November 2006
Television viewers marvelled on Friday at the world’s tallest living man, Bao Xishun from China, on a brief visit to Sweden. At 2,36m, the 55-year-old from Inner Mongolia has been recognised as the world’s tallest by the Guinness World Records book.
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/ 3 November 2006
Firefighters waded through knee-deep flood water on Friday, staking out a safe escape route for a herd of about 100 horses huddled together on a small knoll where they have been stranded for three days. The plight of the stranded horses has fascinated the country, which has followed the rescue attempts in the media.
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/ 3 November 2006
Militants in Nigeria are planning a major new wave of attacks and kidnappings in the next few days that could include up to 20 simultaneous bombings across the country’s oil-rich delta region, United States diplomats warned on Friday. The warning came in an e-mailed statement sent from the US consulate in Nigeria’s main city, Lagos.
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/ 3 November 2006
The deal brokered in Cape Town by Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi this week was little more than a face-saving mechanism for the African National Congress, acting Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Kraai van Niekerk said on Friday in DA leader Tony Leon’s internet column.