A boy attacked by lions at a nature reserve near Krugersdorp on Sunday would have been dead but for his courage and respect for the animals, a curator said. The manager of the reserve said the boy was attacked while showing his girlfriend the lions, ”which the curator refused [to allow] without being … present himself”.
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/ 22 February 2005
Effective policing and social crime prevention programmes are making Gauteng a safer place, but there is still a lot to be done, said Community Safety MEC Firoz Cachalia on Monday. ”Levels of crime are still too high so we cannot announce victory yet,” he said at the media briefing in Johannesburg.
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/ 25 January 2005
Anti-retrovirals could cost South Africans as little as about R100 a month and local manufacturing of generics could start as early as next month, it was announced on Tuesday. South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare group is the first drug manufacturer in the world to receive approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration to produce generic anti-retrovirals.
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/ 24 January 2005
The bus is so crowded that a small schoolboy has to perch precariously on the steps above the doors that slam open and shut at every stop. Passengers of Johannesburg’s Metrobus are annoyed by the constant problems they experience. Delayed and overcrowded busses, breakdowns and busses that simply do not arrive are all causes of their frustration.