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The Gauteng Aids Conference concluded on Friday in Boksburg on the East Rand with delegates affirming the need to stop talking and take action. ”I have come to this conference for the last four years and heard the same thing; it’s time to take some action,” declared one delegate. The three-day conference was aimed at further developing a multi-sectoral response to HIV/Aids in the province.
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/ 13 October 2006
Liberia’s defence minister said on Friday an exiled confidant of former president and warlord Charles Taylor was plotting to assassinate top government officials and called for international help tracking him down. Benjamin Yeaten, Taylor’s former chief of staff and one of his most feared fighters, is believed to be armed, somewhere in West Africa, Defence Minister Brownie Samukai said.
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/ 13 October 2006
More South Africans than ever before have electricity, water and sanitation — but local government is failing to run these services properly, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) said on Friday. ”Local government has proved to be a most unreliable custodian of existing infrastructure,” said the IJR’s 2006 transformation audit, Money and Morality, released in Johannesburg.
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/ 13 October 2006
A strike by cash-in-transit security guards has been put on hold for now, as unions await assurances from government that their demands will be met, a union representative said on Friday. Senior members of the Motor Transport Workers’ Union and the major cash-in-transit companies had a ”productive” meeting on Friday afternoon.
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/ 13 October 2006
Two former Scorpions bosses appeared in the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court on Friday on charges of theft, fraud and corruption, a police spokesperson said. Captain Dennis Adriao said the two handed themselves over to police and were arrested on Friday on charges relating to corruption, theft and fraud amounting collectively to over R1,5-million.
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/ 13 October 2006
Trade conditions in the South African business environment deteriorated slightly in September, the latest Absa/South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) Trade Conditions Survey has found. ”Even though the trade conditions are still in positive territory, the lower September trade activity index endorses the less vibrant trade conditions that are setting in,” said Sacob economist Richard Downing.
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/ 13 October 2006
The baby girl who was shot dead during a cash heist in central Johannesburg this week was laid to rest at the Avalon Cemetery in Soweto on Friday. The funeral service of Nkhensani Mtileni, which started at 10am, was attended by the family, members of the public, the Pan Africanist Congress and the African National Congress Women’s League at the family’s home.
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/ 13 October 2006
There will not be fuel shortages this coming festive season, according to the South African Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia). "The industry assured the minister [of minerals and energy] that the plans put in place would ensure that there would be no supply shortages this festive season," read a joint statement from Sapia and the Department of Minerals and Energy on Friday.
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/ 13 October 2006
Title-holder Retief Goosen turned on the style at the Volkswagen Masters-China on Friday, rattling in a clutch of birdies and eagling the last to take a three-shot halfway lead. The world number seven, who has had a modest year by his standards, fired seven-under-par 65 for a two-day total of 129 at the Yalong Bay Golf Club.
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/ 13 October 2006
Female deaths due to HIV/Aids quadrupled from 1997 to 2004, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Friday. Speaking at the Gauteng Aids summit in Boksburg, Dr Hester Phillips of Stats SA said the very sharp increase in death rate due to HIV and related diseases is of great concern. ”There is also a huge increase in mortality in women in prime ages of reproduction,” she said.