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/ 10 October 2005
Health officials are monitoring 151 people for symptoms of the deadly Congo fever virus, which claimed the life of an unnamed farm labourer at Groote Schuur hospital on Monday. Confident the disease will not spread, officials on Monday discharged seven people, including the dead man’s wife and son, from the Riversdale hospital.
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/ 10 October 2005
Contrasting arguments on the future of the Scorpions were submitted by a police union and the Democratic Alliance at the Khampepe commission in Pretoria on Monday. The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union told the commission: ”The need for the Scorpions no longer exists.”
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/ 10 October 2005
The leading sponsors of South African rugby announced on Monday the appointment of former cricket supremo Dr Ali Bacher to represent their joint interests on the board of SA Rugby. The president of SA Rugby, Brian van Rooyen, welcomed Bacher.
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/ 10 October 2005
Workers marching for an end to unemployment and job losses warned the ruling African National Congress on Monday to ignore them at its peril. ”We cannot simply be election fodder,” Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha told protesters who converged at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
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/ 10 October 2005
A court in Zimbabwe on Monday provisionally barred the eviction of about 400 squatters from a suburb in the capital, Harare, a human rights lawyer said. Zvikomborero Chadambuka, of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, said the High Court in Harare ordered that his clients should not be evicted from Mbare suburb.
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A major security operation comes into effect at the Durban Magistrate’s Court at 4pm on Monday ahead of the appearance of former deputy president Jacob Zuma. Zuma will appear in court on Tuesday on two charges of corruption following the conviction and sentencing of his former financial adviser, Schabir Shaik.
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/ 10 October 2005
Johannesburg’s Metropolitan Trading Company (MTC) has dismissed allegations of billing chaos and looting levelled at it by stall holders of the Bree Street Market on Monday. This follows the protest closure of stalls at the market in the morning in a demand to see the MTC CEO to discuss a list of stall holders’ grievances.
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/ 10 October 2005
”The first thought that came to my mind was that someone is bulldozing our house,” wrote a blogger from Islamabad, Pakistan, close to the epicentre of Saturday’s massive South Asian earthquake that killed up to 40 000 people. Read what other bloggers from Pakistan experienced in the disaster.
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/ 10 October 2005
A Malawian woman dies every hour during childbirth or complications during the process, the country’s health minister said on Monday, adding that the situation is ”tragic and obscene”. ”There must be something we are doing wrong,” Minister of Health Hetherwick Ntaba said.
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/ 10 October 2005
Police responding to an alarm at a cash-advance business in Darlington, South Carolina, say they found a naked man hanging from the ceiling. An officer answering the alarm noticed tiles, insulation, wires and metal braces hanging from the roof and on the floor of the Check ‘n Go, Police Lieutenant Danny Watson said.