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South Africa has a new ”super trade-union federation”, but the country will have to wait until July to know what it will be called. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) warned the super-federation not to take the short-sighted position of becoming ”a significant rival to Cosatu”.
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Controversial Christian evangelist Peter Hammond confirmed on Wednesday that he has been charged with assault following what he said was a Halloween ”accident” with a paintball gun. ”It was meant to be a joke: nobody was meant to get hurt,” he said. ”I laid down a few ground rules: we were just going for teenagers, no kids.”
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/ 1 December 2005
A group of 40 German travel agents were robbed of their handbags at gunpoint in their bus at Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township on Wednesday, SA Tourism said on Thursday. Two armed men stormed into the group’s stationary tour bus and demanded that passengers hand over their valuables and money, SA Tourism said.
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Shimon Peres resigned from Israel’s Labour party, his political home for most of the past 60 years, on Wednesday to support the re-election of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whom he described as providing the best opportunity for peace with the Palestinians. Peres said the decision to leave Labour was ”neither simple nor mundane”.
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De Beers, the world’s largest producer of diamonds, on Wednesday said it has agreed to pay -million to settle four United States class-action lawsuits that accused it of overcharging. The settlement ends 11 years of litigation and ”the majority of civil class actions filed against De Beers in the US,” the company said.
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday blamed former colonial ruler Britain for ”compromising” his country’s battle against HIV/Aids by trying to block anti-Aids funds from global organisations. ”We have suffered further setbacks through the unjustified British-led international demonisation of our country,” he said.
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Europe, led by the United Kingdom, on Wednesday night signalled a major split with the United States over curbing the Aids pandemic in a statement that tacitly urged African governments not to heed the abstinence-focused agenda of the Bush administration.
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<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/257998/special_rep_icon_template.jpg" align=left>With only a quarter of Kenyans who need anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) receiving them from the government, the race is on to ensure that many more people get treatment to fend off Aids-related diseases. But ARV recipients also need enough, good food, without which ARVs cannot work properly.
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Jean Benjamin, Ntombazana Botha, Thoko Didiza, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Nomatyala Hangana, Lindiwe Hendricks, Loretta Jacobus, Brigitte Mabandla, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Naledi Pandor, Susan Shabangu, Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu, Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Elizabeth Thabethe, Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, Susan van der Merwe, Lulama Xingwana.
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