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/ 11 February 2004
Former security police colonel Gideon Niewoudt has been arrested and charged for the deaths of the so-called Pebco Three in 1985, the Scorpions said on Wednesday. The Scorpions arrested Niewoudt in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday morning. He later briefly appeared in the city’s Magistrate’s Court and was released on R50 000 bail.
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/ 2 December 2003
The Constitutional Court has rejected businessman Schabir Shaik’s application to strike down parts of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Act that he believed violated his right to silence — apparently after his lawyers appealed the constitutionality of the wrong sub-section of a law.
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/ 22 November 2003
The SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) on Thursday night issued a strongly worded statement against former City Press editor Vusi Mona for unprofessional conduct in relation to his appearance and evidence before the Hefer commission of inquiry.
‘I was reckless’
Mona grilled
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/ 14 November 2003
Department of Labour inspectors have surveyed the wreckage of a bridge that collapsed at the Coega development zone outside Port Elizabeth and interviewed eight construction workers about the disaster. Two construction workers were killed and 18 injured on Thursday when the bottom formwork of the bridge collapsed.
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/ 13 November 2003
Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa on Thursday tabled the province’s second annual HIV/Aids report in the region’s Legislature, saying: ”Care for people living with HIV/Aids places an extraordinary load on health care services. This is expected to peak around 2010, with maximum impact on acute care in hospitals.”
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/ 5 November 2003
Owners of Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper, The Daily News, vowed on Tuesday to fight through that country’s courts for the right to publish. ”That they have chosen to shoot the messenger won’t make the message go away,” said Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe chairperson Strive Masiyiwa.
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/ 14 October 2003
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday returned the land and mineral rights currently owned by Alexkor, the state diamond company, to a community forcibly removed from the land in the 1920s. The court said the Richtersveld community had been removed from their land under racist laws.
President Thabo Mbeki’s office and the defence ministry on Monday night said no decision had been made yet to deploy South African peacekeepers to strife-torn Liberia.
Five times more South Africans are affected by debt judgments than are contracting HIV/Aids daily, making the sheriff of the court a major figure in the lives of thousands of working people, according to an economist.
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/ 3 September 2002
Sixteen protesters were arrested under the Gatherings Act for interfering with traffic while illegally protesting against Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Monday night.