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With 1,5 tonnes of meat and 3Â 500 litres of ice cream consumed daily at the African National Congress’s conference in Limpopo, it came as no surprise that provisions had to be ”imported”. There was not enough meat in Polokwane, so it had to be shipped in from Johannesburg and kept in cold storage near the venue.
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/ 18 December 2007
More than 1 400 would-be migrants, mostly Somalis and Ethiopians, have drowned off Yemen this year trying to cross the Gulf of Aden on rickety boats run by brutal smugglers. About 28 300 people leaving northern Somalia, mainly Somalis and Ethiopians, have made it to Yemen’s shores on 300 boats this year.
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/ 18 December 2007
The doctor who is alleged to have falsified a medical certificate for Ekurhuleni police chief Robert McBride was granted bail on Tuesday, after handing himself over to the investigating officer in the case, police said. Dr Joseph Moratioa gave himself up and appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court.
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/ 18 December 2007
Witwatersrand University has recently been accredited as a Fifa Centre of Medical Excellence to cater for soccer players in need of medical care, the university said on Tuesday. The Centre for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the university would ensure that players received expert medical care and advice.
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/ 18 December 2007
Eastern Cape authorities were still searching for 29 tuberculosis (TB) patients who escaped from the Jose Pearson Hospital in the Nelson Mandela municipality, after twenty returned on Tuesday. The patients escaped through holes they had cut through the hospital’s perimeter fences.
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/ 18 December 2007
Spain’s government estimated on Tuesday that joint business between Spanish and Libyan firms should amount to more than -billion. Gadaffi’s visit focused on ”the interest of both countries to promote economic cooperation, telecommunications, tourism and even water management,” said the government.
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/ 18 December 2007
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday accused Zambia’s government of failing to stop escalating violence against women and prevention of access to antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV/Aids. HRW said 17% of Zambia’s adult population is living with HIV and 57% of them are women.
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The two co-accused of former bouncer Gary Beuthin were denied bail in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Magistrate Fatima Khan found they had not satisfied the court that there were exceptional circumstances for them to be granted bail.
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Charges of cruelty to animals and of being in possession of dagga were on Tuesday withdrawn in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court against a teenager who earlier this year cut off a dog’s head. The court heard that Jacques Wensel (18) of Pretoria West, had successfully completed a diversion programme.
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/ 18 December 2007
More than 560 people have died on South African roads since the beginning of December, the Department of Transport said on Tuesday. At least 119 people were killed in accidents in Gauteng, 86 in KwaZulu-Natal, 58 in the Western Cape, 70 in the Eastern Cape, 52 in the Free State, 74 in Mpumalanga, 51 in Limpopo and seven in the Northern Cape.