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/ 12 January 2005
A good curry laden with spices can do wonders in keeping a range of diseases including cancer at bay, according to internationally acclaimed researcher Prof Bharat Aggarwal. ”It is not only cancer, there are a number of other diseases … right now there are clinical trials going on in the University of California with curcumin for dementia [and] Alzheimer’s.”
The Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA) is not considering a civil claim against the English cricket fan who scrawled swastikas and racist graffiti on seats at Newlands. ”The less we have to do with this person the better,” WPCA president Norman Arendse said on Thursday after Matthew Weller was fined R4 000 or six months in jail.
In a letter of apology on Thursday to the Western Province Cricket Association, an English fan arrested for scribbling racist graffiti at the Newlands cricket ground said he regrets his actions and promised never to do it again. The racist graffiti cost Newlands cricket authorities more than R15Â 000 to remove.
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/ 6 December 2004
The Scorpions are under ”immense pressure” in the parliamentary travel scam case, a prosecutor with the unit, Jannie van Vuuren, said on Monday. He was speaking in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, where the cases of six travel agency accused were postponed to February 18 for further investigation, and a seventh, Soraya Beukes, to Friday for a fresh bail application.
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/ 3 December 2004
The Cape High Court’s rejection of the medicines appeal bid would not affect the Supreme Court of Appeal hearing, the Pharmaceutical Society of SA said on Friday. ”We note the judgement, also again that it’s a split decision,” said PSSA executive director Ivan Kotze.
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/ 24 November 2004
The Cape High Court on Wednesday rejected alleged coup plotter Mark Thatcher’s bid to quash a planned questioning session by Equatorial Guinea prosecutors. His legal team had argued that the questioning, scheduled to take place before a Cape Town magistrate on Friday, violated Thatcher’s constitutional rights to silence and against self-incrimination.
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/ 16 November 2004
Alleged drunk driver Benjamin Kleinbooi’s car could end up with Toyota’s financial services division, rather than being forfeited to the state, it emerged on Monday. Kleinbooi’s Toyota Corolla was attached last week by the Asset Forfeiture Unit under a High Court order, after his two drunk driving arrests earlier this year.
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/ 11 November 2004
If you’re concerned about cancer, skip the braai but enjoy the biltong, say researchers at the University of the Free State. In a paper published in the latest issue of the South African Medical Journal, they have described the results of a battery of tests on nine volunteers fed a biltong-enriched diet over five days.
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/ 10 November 2004
Senior Democratic Alliance politician Kent Morkel has been accused of taking a bribe in a multimillion-rand corruption case that came before the Cape High Court on Wednesday. In a plea-bargain agreement, micro-loan provider Gilt Edged Management Services consented to fines totalling R5-million on two counts of corruption.
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/ 9 November 2004
Italian prosecutors are hoping that a former South African police officer now in a psychiatric clinic may be able to testify in Italy at alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo’s trial in absentia. The police officer, Abraham Smith, broke down last week when he took the stand.
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