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/ 1 February 2005
The reason the sex-crimes trial of Pretoria advocates Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo is in the high court rather than the regional court is for sensation, the defence argued on Tuesday. ”The sole purpose for the trial being heard in the high court is for sensation’s sake and to make an example of the accused,” Piet Coetzee argued for Prinsloo.
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/ 1 February 2005
China issued emergency regulations on Tuesday to counter an outbreak of the deadly spinal disease meningitis that has killed at least 16 people among 258 cases this month. The whole country has been affected with the exception of Fujian province in the south-east, Hainan in the south and the Tibet region.
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/ 1 February 2005
A Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) group will be kicked out of Zimbabwe if it went ahead with a planned visit to that country, the Zimbabwean labour minister said on Tuesday. The 20-strong Cosatu delegation people was to leave for Harare from Johannesburg International airport at 10.50am on Wednesday morning.
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/ 1 February 2005
King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal’s coalition government on Tuesday and took charge of administering the country, which is battling a Maoist revolt, as political leaders accused him of staging a coup. Gyanendra promised to ”restore democracy and law and order in the country in the next three years”.
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/ 1 February 2005
The National Union of Mineworkers and trade union Solidarity on Tuesday welcomed the appointment of Lazarus Zim as chief executive officer of global resources group Anglo American’s South African operations.
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/ 1 February 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) raced to a record high of 12Â 904,090 on Tuesday morning when a weaker rand fuelled a rally in heavyweight resources stocks. The currency had the opposite effect on banks, which led the market’s downside. At 11.59am, the all-share index was up 0,52% at 12,865,220.
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/ 1 February 2005
A pathologist could not tell from Nelson Chisale’s broken bones whether he was dead or alive when thrown into a lions’ den in January 2004, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Tuesday. ”There was no flesh on the bones at all,” Dr Donald Mabunda told the court.
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/ 1 February 2005
The purchase of AT&T by SBC Communications saves AT&T from a nosedive into irrelevance in the industry it created more than a century ago. It also gives SBC the name and the network to fulfill its goal of being viewed as a truly national player rather than just a local telephone company.
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/ 1 February 2005
Right-arm swing bowler Charl Langeveldt has been released from the South African squad for the next three matches in the Standard Bank one-day international series against England. Langeveldt broke a bone in his left hand during the third Test at Newlands on January 3.