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Israel lifted its eight-week sea blockade of Lebanon on Friday after an interim maritime task force, led by an Italian admiral, deployed off the Lebanese coast, the commander of the United Nations peacekeepers said.
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The Department of Correctional Services filed an affidavit in the Durban High Court on Friday, detailing how it plans to speed up providing anti-retroviral treatment at Durban’s Westville prison. The department was criticised in August 31 Judge Chris Nicholson, who said the government’s failure to abide by court orders posed a ”grave constitutional crisis”.
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At least 95% of police stations around the country refuse to release crime statistics to the public, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Friday. A DA survey conducted in six major centres around the country on Thursday found that 39 out of 41 stations visited (95%) refused to release crime statistics, citing the moratorium imposed on the release of such information.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will demand an intensification of the government’s national mobilisation plan against HIV/Aids at its coming national congress. ”Cosatu has over and over again expressed concern at the lack of clear leadership,” spokesperson Patrick Craven said in a statement issued on Friday.
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South Africa’s controversial minister of health hit back on Friday at criticism of her unorthodox views on Aids and stuck to views that traditional medicine can treat Aids. More than 80 international scientists joined a campaign this week by a leading South African Aids lobby group urging President Thabo Mbeki to fire Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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A new website, <i>Iwant2gohome.org</i>, has been launched by First People of the Kalahari, an NGO. Its aim is to draw attention to Botswana’s San/Basarwa people’s struggle to regain entry to their ancestral home. "[The website] is the way we want to campaign our cause globally," said a spokesperson for the NGO.
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South Africa’s largest privately owned independent call-centre operator, Dialogue Group, expects to raise R51-million via a pre-listing private placement of 51-million shares at R1 a share, the group said on Friday. The JSE has granted Dialogue Holdings a listing for a maximum of 210-million ordinary shares on the Alternative Exchange (AltX).
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/ 8 September 2006
Following a turbulent first eight months of the year, Investec Asset Management (IAM) remains cautiously optimistic on equities. Investec Asset Management director Jeremy Gardiner said in commentary on Friday that the JSE’s all-share index was up 23% this year, exceeding all expectations.
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The Cats will no longer be. The much-maligned Super 14 franchise will now only be know as the Lions. In a statement issued on Friday, the Golden Lions Rugby Union said that after ”in-depth market research” they decided that their international brand (read Super 14 brand), which used to be known as Cats, will in future be called Lions.
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Gauteng detectives have confiscated R2-million-worth of perlemoen (abalone) in sting operations around the province, police said on Friday. ”The abalone was seized at Mondeor, Crystal Park and Lyttelton,” said Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini of the national police commissioner’s office.