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/ 16 December 2004
A dispute over non-payment of the rental of a refrigerated container with medical waste inside on Wednesday caused a hospital group in East London, Afrox Healthcare, to end its medical waste-removal contract with a nationally based company. Last Friday, an electrician cut the power supply to a container in which medical waste had been stored.
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/ 10 September 2004
The extermination of 1 300 ostriches, that have been raised as part of an Eastern Cape black economic empowerment farming venture, started on Thursday after the birds tested positive for bird flu. All the birds are in Salem, near Grahamstown. ”The consequential loss of this will run up to R350 000 over the next three months,” said local Agri-Business managing director Martin Fick.