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/ 14 March 2007

Let the festival begin

The success of the National Arts Festival is yet another demonstration of how we as South Africans can reach into the diversity of a past division and conflict, and transform it into a celebration of our richness and our unity within that diversity." It was with these words that Nelson Mandela officially opened the 25th Grahamstown festival around lunchtime today.

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/ 14 March 2007

HIV/Aids barometer – March 2007

Tuberculosis cases are rising rapidly in the Mozambican coastal town of Beira, according to local doctors. The city of half a million, which is the capital of the country’s most HIV/Aids-affected province, logged 2 736 new TB cases last year, a 5% increase from 2005. ”.

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/ 13 March 2007

Confusion over ‘hostage’ drama

A misunderstanding led to media reports that five professors from the University of Pretoria were being held hostage at a bio-diesel plant in a village outside Mafikeng, police said on Tuesday. The professors had apparently gone to the plant in Tontonyane village to fetch trees for their research project when confusion ensued.