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/ 30 September 2005
The Constitutional Court on Friday ordered that the controversial medicine-dispensing fee be reviewed within 60 days. In what it called a ”partial victory for both sides” it set aside a Supreme Court of Appeal judgement declaring the new medicine-pricing regulations invalid. It said there is no need to scrap the law, but that changes within the law are needed.
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/ 30 September 2005
Japanese carmaker Nissan on Friday unveiled a car of the future which only goes forward — with a cabin able to revolve 360°, eliminating the need to reverse. The three-seater electric concept car, nicknamed Pivo, will be put on display at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show to be held in Chiba, outside Tokyo, from October 22 to November 6, Nissan Motor Company said in a statement.
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/ 30 September 2005
Convicted killer Mark Scott-Crossley was married in the Phalaborwa Magistrate’s Court on Friday ahead of his sentencing for the murder of farmworker Nelson Chisale. Meanwhile, the community of Phalaborwa wants for life sentences for Chisale’s killers, people said as they crowded the doors of the circuit court.
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/ 30 September 2005
Former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni’s appeal against a fraud conviction and four-year sentence is to be heard in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. Yengeni is to contest the verdict on the grounds that he was deceived into pleading guilty by former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka.
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/ 30 September 2005
The JSE reached yet another record high on Friday, peeping above the 16 800 level for the first time. Strength in heavyweight dual-listed stocks offshore and a higher gold price contributed to the JSE’s strength. The rand was bid at 6,35 per dollar from 6,38 when the JSE closed on Thursday, while gold was quoted at $473,55 a troy ounce from $471,85/oz at the JSE’s last close.
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/ 30 September 2005
South Africa’s retail petrol price for all grades of petrol will increase by 12 cents a litre (c/l) from October 5 after a 29c/l rise on September 7, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel 0,3% sulphur will rise by five c/l after September’s two c/l increase, while diesel 0,05% sulphur will cost six c/l more after a three c/l addition in September.
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/ 30 September 2005
The lack of depth in Australian tennis will be put to the test in the opening round of next year’s Davis Cup teams competition in Switzerland. The Australians, 28-time winners of the tournament, have fallen on hard times with only journeyman Wayne Arthurs (97) ranked inside the top-100 to support world number five Lleyton Hewitt.
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/ 30 September 2005
Democrats in Congress, who have steadily lost ground against governing Republicans in recent voting, are hoping that mounting ethics scandals will prompt voters to defect from United States President George Bush’s Republican party, with the 2006 election looming.
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/ 30 September 2005
The Russian Federation’s weak and poorly enforced laws against child pornography have turned the country into a haven for paedophiles, participants at a conference in Moscow devoted to the problem said this week. The confenrence heard that child pornography can be distrubuted through the internet with relative impunity because of weaknesses in the criminal code.
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/ 30 September 2005
The governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has called for a halt to farm invasions, describing those who try to seize land as ”criminals”, a newspaper reported on Friday. ”The invasions are totally unacceptable and should be stopped forthwith by whoever is doing it,” Governor Gideon Gono said.