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/ 3 November 2004
It is a myth that South Africa is being flooded by refugees and economic migrants, the South African Human Rights Commission heard on Wednesday. The research director of the University of the Witwatersrand’s forced migration project said people should be wary of accepting claims that two to three million people are coming from Zimbabwe.
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/ 2 November 2004
Foreigners are regularly detained at the Lindela Detention Centre outside Krugersdorp for longer than the permitted 30 days, the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on xenophobia heard on Tuesday. The hearing’s findings will guide what action Parliament will take on the problem of xenophobia.
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/ 29 October 2004
The public protector ruled on Friday against a complaint that the Cabinet acted improperly when it approved the Department of Health’s plan for the treatment of HIV/Aids. This followed a complaint by Johannesburg woman Anita Allen, who said the assumption that HIV causes Aids has not been proved.
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/ 21 September 2004
Closing off public spaces with boom gates is putting up a laager and reinstating apartheid — and it is also illegal, the South African Human Rights Commission heard on Tuesday. The commission is hearing submissions on whether communities should be allowed to restrict access to public areas to feel safer.
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/ 17 September 2004
A Randburg engineer charged under weapons of mass destruction and nuclear energy laws has already told international authorities that he had no business dealings with Libya, the Vanderbijlpark Regional Court heard on Friday. Gerhard Wisser was questioned by German authorities last month.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=122333">’Death threats’ in WMD case</a>
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/ 17 September 2004
A man who has turned state witness in a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) case has allegedly received death threats, the Vanderbijlpark regional court heard on Friday. This emerged during a bail application by two Randburg engineering company directors who were arrested during an international investigation into a nuclear trafficking network.
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/ 14 September 2004
The bail application of two men charged under laws against the proliferation of nuclear weapons was delayed in Vanderbijlpark on Tuesday to give lawyers time to study new documents. Randburg engineering company directors Gerhard Wisser and Daniel Geiges were arrested last Wednesday.
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/ 3 September 2004
A director of a Vanderbijlpark engineering company arrested for allegedly breaking laws on the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction will remain in custody until his bail application next Wednesday. Johan Andries Muller Meyer, dressed in a dark blue suit, said nothing during his brief appearance in court on Friday.
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/ 2 September 2004
The Department of Health is willing to negotiate its controversial dispensing fee regulations but will only do so if pharmacists withdraw their court action, the department’s Humphrey Zokufa said on Thursday. ”Yes, we will negotiate, but only if they withdraw their court action,” said Zokufa.
Cape pharmacies open after protest
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/ 1 September 2004
Pharmacists on the Cape Peninsula closed shop on Wednesday following threats of arrest from customers angry that they are not charging prices laid down by law, following last week’s reintroduction of medicine-pricing regulations, a pharmacist said. ”We will stay closed until we get leave to appeal,” said one pharmacist.