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/ 5 September 2006
Last week highlighted the powerful value of small justice. Adriaan Vlok, it was revealed, had apologised to the Reverend Frank Chikane by symbolically washing his feet. And in a less high-profile case, the acclaimed struggle lawyer Shun Chetty was posthumously reinstated as an attorney. He had been struck off the roll in 1980.
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/ 5 September 2006
The ceasefire ending the 20-year insurrection by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda appears to be holding, with the rebel leader, Joseph Kony, making plans to go home. Some of his LRA fighters have started moving into cantonment areas in the north of the country, after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ordered his forces not to fire on the insurgents.
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/ 5 September 2006
At least two people died on Monday after inhaling toxic fumes from waste dumped three weeks ago in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, reportedly by a foreign-registered vessel, a medical source said on Tuesday. ”There were two deaths, a four-year-old girl and another aged nine years,” said an official at Abidjan’s teaching university hospital of Cocody.
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/ 4 September 2006
Film and Publications Board CE Shokie Bopape-Dlomo says the ”media frenzy” over proposed amendments to the Film and Publications Act took her by surprise. Reports that newspapers would have to forward articles for pre-publication classification were based on a misunderstanding, she said in an interview this week.
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/ 4 September 2006
The government has moved to limit the fallout from a warning by Kwazulu-Natal Judge Chris Nicholson that a ”grave constitutional crisis” could occur if it defied court orders. ”Government wishes to reassure all South Africans in general, and the judiciary in particular, that court judgements are binding on the state and that all state institutions will abide by court decisions.
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/ 4 September 2006
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Monday Lebanon and Israel have accepted his offer to mediate the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in July. ”The two sides have accepted the effort of the secretary general to help solve this problem,” Annan told a news conference in Saudi Arabia.
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/ 4 September 2006
Free State provincial minister for safety and security Playfair Morule is facing a charge of culpable homicide after a man was killed in a hit-and-run accident, Free State police confirmed on Monday. ”An incident of culpable homicide is being investigated,” said Superintendent Annelie Wrench.
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/ 4 September 2006
Democratic Alliance chief whip Douglas Gibson should apologise for invading First Lady Zanele Mbeki’s privacy, said Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Monday. Mlambo-Ngcuka called Gibson’s behaviour ”an invasion of Mrs Mbeki’s privacy and injurious to her dignity as a citizen”, said her spokesperson Thabang Chiloane in a statement.
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/ 4 September 2006
Four armed men robbed three foreigners on their way to a World Health Summit on the R21, Pretoria police said on Monday. Inspector Paul Ramaloko said the three delegates, two men and a woman from France, Germany and Nigeria, were on their way to Pretoria north to attend the summit on Sunday when a Hyundai bumped their Microbus from behind.