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/ 6 September 2005
The Democratic Alliance has proposed six measures the government should take to reduce the ever increasing fuel price. ”Government can and should take proactive steps to decrease the price of petrol,” DA MP and minerals and energy spokesperson Hendrik Schmidt told a media briefing at Parliament on Tuesday.
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/ 6 September 2005
Successfully applying for a postponement on Tuesday, arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne suggested in an application before the Cape High Court that Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s sequestration action was ”malicious”. Crawford-Browne said it was ”unreasonable” for an individual, who acted in the public interest, to be punished or sequestrated for legal costs.
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/ 6 September 2005
Talks between the government and business on ways to boost economic growth and reduce unemployment and poverty continued on Tuesday with a presidential Business Unity South Africa (Busa) working group meeting at Tuynhuys in Cape Town.
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/ 6 September 2005
The Medicines Control Council of South Africa has been ordered to probe claims that the industrial solvent, Virodene, is being openly peddled on the internet as a cure for HIV/Aids, the office of Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Tuesday.
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/ 6 September 2005
A charming and ruthless British conman who posed as a spy to extort huge sums from a string of victims was jailed for life on Tuesday. He had persuaded his victims to think they were on the run from terrorists. Robert Hendy-Freegard was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court in central London after being found guilty of a string of crimes related to deception.
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/ 6 September 2005
Glamorgan seamer Simon Jones has been left rueing an injured right ankle which, after a fitness test, ruled him out of selection for England’s deciding Ashes Test at The Oval on Thursday. Jones was put through his paces at Lord’s on Tuesday morning but his ankle was still painful and he was ruled out immediately.
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/ 6 September 2005
Mobile ”chop shops” may be one of the best ways to curb South Africa’s HIV/Aids epidemic, according to a major study carried out in Orange Farm, near Johannesburg. Not an outfit that dismembers cars, but one offering a more intimate service — circumcision.
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/ 6 September 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) hopes that the long-awaited second national operator (SNO) will be licenced as speedily as possible, Icasa councillor Lumko Mtimde said on Tuesday. Mtimde said the authority was now conducting the regulatory analysis ahead of the issuing of the licence.
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/ 6 September 2005
A Catholic religion teacher claims her good looks have cost her her job at a primary school in central Italy. Caterina Bonci, described in the local media as a sexy 38-year-old blonde who likes to wear miniskirts, was fired after 14 years spent teaching religion at a state-run school in Fano.
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/ 6 September 2005
Indonesian police raiding the house of a man suspected of fraud discovered the mummified body of an infant girl hidden inside an unused aquarium, a report said on Tuesday. The dried-up body was found covered in lime powder inside a glass box hidden at the bottom of the empty aquarium in the house in Bandung.