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/ 10 January 2007
Tuberculosis, malnutrition and African wars were among the top ten most underreported humanitarian stories of 2006, the international aid organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Tuesday. ”We know that media coverage does not generate improvements on its own,” said United States MSF executive director Nicolas de Torrente.
The murder of Avhatakali Netshisaulu, son of City Press editor Mathatha Tsedu, was planned, the investigating officer told the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Friday in opposing bail for Netshisaulu’s widow. ”It was a planned murder,” said Inspector Mokebe Madibo. Netshisaulu’s body was found in his burnt-out car north of Johannesburg on December 7.
City Press editor Mathatha Tsedu’s daughter-in-law is the sixth person to appear in court in connection with his son’s murder. Mulalo Unity Sivhidzo (28) appeared in the Krugersdorp magistrate’s court on Tuesday in connection with the murder of her husband, Avhatakali Netshisaulu, Tsedu’s son.
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/ 29 December 2006
The police are searching for a security guard who shot dead a Pick ‘n Pay manager and a taxi driver at the Workshop shopping centre in Durban on Thursday night. Captain Gugu Sabela said the guard from Siza Security was on duty at the Pick ‘n Pay store in central Durban when he demanded money from a manager at about 7.30pm.
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/ 20 December 2006
The Botswana pilot who was killed when his light aircraft crashed into a block of flats in Yeoville was training to be a commercial pilot, said a flight instructor on Tuesday. Anastasios Vouros, who runs a flight school at the Rand Airport and owned the wrecked Piper Cherokee 140, said the pilot was qualified to fly the plane.
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/ 19 December 2006
Pharmacists filed an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court on Monday challenging the new medicine-price regulations, said three pharmacist organisations. The pharmacists are challenging both the recommendation on medicine-dispensing fees made by the medicine-pricing committee to the minister of health and the regulations in terms of which it was made.
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/ 29 November 2006
The attack on the Highgate Hotel in East London 13 years ago was not carried out by the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, but by a ”third force”, a former police investigator said. Captain Daryl Els, now of the Scorpions, said he was ”99%” sure the apartheid-era security forces were involved in the Highgate attack on May 1 1993.
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/ 27 October 2006
Renaming South Africa’s main airport after a liberator like late African National Congress president OR Tambo keeps the country’s memories alive, said President Thabo Mbeki on Friday. ”This renaming ceremony is about our memory of ourselves,” said Mbeki. ”If we do not know who we have been, we will not know who we will be.”
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/ 26 October 2006
OR Tambo International airport is one of hundreds of South African place names that have been officially changed since 2000. The airport’s new name and a bust of Tambo are due to be unveiled on Friday by President Thabo Mbeki. The South African Geographical Names Council lists 833 new names approved since 2000, including at least 145 names that were completely changed.
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/ 26 October 2006
Two Nigerian stowaways who survived an eight-day voyage from the Côte d’Ivoire on the outside of a car-carrier ship arrived in Port Elizabeth with about a cupful of water left. The National Sea Rescue Institute said on Thursday one was clutching a bottle with about 300ml of water left in it, which had to be prised from his hand.