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/ 12 September 2006
South Africa’s Department of Health has promised to start distribution as early as next week of a drug to help fight an extremely virulent strain of tuberculosis (TB) that has killed 52 people in the country. However, the government warned on Tuesday there was no guarantee the drug will save lives as it may prove ineffective against the new superbug.
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/ 12 September 2006
Five villagers were killed and numerous others wounded when soldiers attacked their homes in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), United Nations-sponsored radio said on Tuesday. The attack took place on September 5 at Monoli II, a small village in Isangi district, about 250km west of Kisangani, capital of Orientale province.
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/ 12 September 2006
Cracks in the ranks of the 22 in the dock in the Boeremag treason trial became obvious this week when most of them failed to support an application by two of their number for the recusal of Judge Eben Jordaan. On Tuesday counsel for brothers Wilhelm and Johan Pretorius asked Jordaan to withdraw because of his clients’ ”reasonable apprehension” that the judge was biased.
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/ 12 September 2006
Stumps were drawn early on Tuesday afternoon in the fraud trial of former national cricketer Garth le Roux and his accountant following legal argument over the testimony of the state’s first witness. The dispute arose as the prosecution was handing in a series of documents from South African Revenue Service files.
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/ 12 September 2006
One in five pregnant women are testing HIV positive in the Western Cape’s public health antenatal clinics, according to a survey released by the department provincial health on Tuesday. The HIV prevalence is highest in women aged 25 to 29 years, with an infection rate of 20,1% of the 8 656 people examined at 400 facilities in the province’s 25 health districts.
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/ 12 September 2006
Mining firms in South Africa, the world’s biggest producer of precious metals, must make greater efforts to share proceeds from a commodities boom with workers and those who live near mines, the government said on Tuesday. South Africa’s mining charter, which seeks to spur more ownership by the black majority, also demands that companies help develop workers and communities.
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/ 12 September 2006
Andrew Flintoff will lead England’s Ashes defence in Australia later this year after being named as captain when the 16-man squad was announced by the England and Wales Cricket Board on Tuesday. The all-rounder was given the nod ahead of opening batsman Andrew Strauss, who has captained the side in the absence of the injured Flintoff.
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/ 12 September 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair slapped down jeering trade union critics of his leadership and free-market policies on Tuesday, saying the reality of globalisation had to be dealt with. In his last-ever speech as British leader to an annual union conference, he highlighted links between globalisation, immigration and the threat from terrorism.
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/ 12 September 2006
The auditor general’s (AG) performance audit on the approval and allocation of housing subsidies to municipal employees by the Mpumalanga department of local government and housing has highlighted discrepancies of more R4-million in subsidy allocation.
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/ 12 September 2006
A senior Zimbabwe labour official dismissed on Tuesday government threats to crush street marches planned for Wednesday by the main trade union, saying the authorities were panicking. President Robert Mugabe’s government has been shaken by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) plans to hold the processions, said ZCTU secretary general Wellington Chibebe.