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/ 9 February 2006
Campaigners on Thursday charged that the global tobacco industry is trying to water down an international treaty which aims to cut deaths and illness caused by smoking. A coalition of activists said they were particularly worried by industry lobbying activities in developing countries.
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/ 9 February 2006
Influential figures from the world of politics and the arts added their voices to the protests by Muslims worldwide over the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that were published in the European media as the holiest day for Shi’ites, Ashura, was observed in various countries.
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Five KwaZulu-Natal municipal managers have been asked to repay more than R7-million embezzled during their terms of office. Local government department head Zandile Nyandu said on Thursday they would have to recover the money or face court applications for recovery.
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/ 9 February 2006
Africa’s first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu has spread to at least four farms, Nigerian officials said on Thursday, as the continent braced itself for a possible epidemic. Nigerian agriculture ministry spokesperson Tope Ajakaiye said tests on chicken carcasses had identified the H5N1 type of avian influenza.
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Judge Phineas Mojapelo may preside over the rape trial of Jacob Zuma next week, but the final announcement will only be made on Friday. An official in the Johannesburg High Court registrar’s office said on Thursday that Mojapelo would preside over the trial, but an official in Mojapelo’s chambers said he could not confirm this.
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South Africa’s fish stocks are a focal point of the World Wide Fund for Nature in SA’s (WWF SA) agenda for this year. Rob Little, head of conservation, told a press conference the WWF SA believed it would get the government to declare Prince Edward Island a protected area.
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South Africa on Thursday said it would reopen a probe into the death of Mozambique’s first president Samora Machel, who was killed in mysterious circumstances in a plane crash during the apartheid era. ”We will deploy some of the best resources we have, human and material, to get to the bottom of that matter,” said Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
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A probe into alleged hoax e-mails aimed at discrediting senior ruling party figures could be completed by the end of the month, Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils said on Thursday. ”That is the hope and the expectation,” he told reporters at Parliament.
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Rebecca Webb Carranza, who is credited with playing an important role in popularising the tortilla chip, has died at age 98. In the late 1940s, the Carranza family’s Los Angeles-based El Zarape Tortilla Factory began making tortillas by machine, but at first many of the corn and flour disks were misshapen and had to be thrown away.