Staff Reporter
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/ 13 October 2006

Former president PW Botha admitted to hospital

Former president PW Botha was admitted to the George Medi-Clinic on Friday, hospital manager George Schutte has confirmed. He is to be discharged from the George Medi-Clinic on Saturday morning after undergoing what the hospital says are routine checks. ”Mr Botha will be kept overnight for routine tests to be run and will be discharged tomorrow morning,” a statement said.

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/ 13 October 2006

Monitors: Uganda rebels have violated truce

Ugandan rebels have violated a truce with the government by leaving an agreed assembly point, the head of an independent monitoring team said on Friday, in a blow to efforts to end one of Africa’s longest conflicts. ”We did not find them there … Because they were supposed to be there, it is automatically a violation,” Major General Wilson Deng Kuoirot told the media.