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South Africa’s smaller cities are growing rapidly while the population growth of the nine major cities is slowing down. These trends were shown in the State of Cities Report 2006 released in Pretoria on Wednesday. Over the last five years the entire urban population has increased faster than the national population.
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/ 6 September 2006
Israel said on Wednesday it would lift an eight-week-old air and sea blockade of Lebanon on Thursday, handing over control to international forces. It said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had been told by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan that ”international forces are ready to take over control posts”.
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Jacob Zuma’s lawyer on Wednesday rejected the state’s invitation to allow the Pietermaritzburg High Court to decide whether documents taken in search-and-seizure raids were admissible as evidence. Advocate Kemp J Kemp told Judge Herbert Msimang that he would not be ”accepting my learned friend’s offer”.
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A move by the Department of Health to gag its top provincial officials from commenting on HIV/Aids is an unreasonable limitation on their right to freedom of expression, two rights-monitoring groups said on Wednesday. ”If allowed to go unchallenged, the move will set an extremely negative precedent,” the Freedom of Expression Institute and Open Democracy Advice Centre said.
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/ 6 September 2006
Retailers and South Africa’s largest union federations on Wednesday took directly opposing views on moves to limit Chinese clothing and textile imports. Edcon, Truworths, Foschini, Pepkor, Mr Price and Woolworths said the agreement will impact badly on consumers and lead to corruption and loss of income for retailers.
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/ 6 September 2006
Traditional healers in Zimbabwe have been given the authority to issue their patients with sick notes allowing them time off work, it was reported on Wednesday. A senior official in the ministry of health also said that conventional doctors should be allowed to refer problem cases to traditional healers.
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The Boeremag treason trial may, after more than three years and millions of rands of taxpayers’ money, have to start afresh if two of the accused have their way. Two of the 22 accused, brothers Wilhelm and Johan Pretorius, on Wednesday gave notice that they intended applying for trial Judge Eben Jordaan’s recusal because of alleged bias.
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/ 6 September 2006
Prop Benn Robinson will make his debut and wing Cameron Shepherd his first start in two changes Australian coach John Connolly has made to his team for Saturday’s Tri-Nations Test against South Africa. Shepherd replaces Lote Tuqiri, who was suspended for a dangerous tackle in Australia’s 34-27 defeat by New Zealand in Auckland on August 19.
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The black economic empowerment (BEE) partner in a R65-million deal with clothing and retail giant Woolworths said on Wednesday the company will seek to use local suppliers ahead of controversial Chinese imports. ”Our standpoint is that we are a South African company,” said chairperson of the Makhubu Group and former secretary to Parliament Zingile Dingani.
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/ 6 September 2006
South Africa has slipped one place in the World Bank and International Finance Corporation’s <i>Doing Business 2007</i> report to 29th overall from 28th last year, with co-author of the report, Caralee McLiesh, saying one of the key areas for reform needed in South Africa is the complex tax system. "There are not level taxes and there is a lot of administration involved in the tax system."