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/ 26 January 2005
The Gauteng health department has identified four hospitals with management problems and poor patient care. ”We are reluctant to name them. We don’t want to inform them through the press. We want to inform them in our own way,” department spokesperson Popo Maja said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2005
Iran will carry out an ”astonishing” retaliation to any attack against the Islamic republic by Israel or the United States, a top Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying on Wednesday. In recent days United States officials have hardened their tone against the Islamic republic, which US President George Bush has already lumped into an ”axis of evil”.
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/ 26 January 2005
Zimbabwe’s traditional stone sculptors, who once earned huge sums from Western tourists, museums and galleries, are now struggling to survive due to their country’s isolation. Many sculptors are now forced to sell their works at a fraction of the price in a country labouring under a slew of economic woes.
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/ 26 January 2005
World number six gold miner Harmony Gold on Wednesday fell to a fresh three-year of R50 a share on the JSE Securities Exchange. This was attributable to the fall in the price of group’s American Depository Receipt (ADR) in the United States due to the lower gold price, brokers said.
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/ 26 January 2005
The two-one win over South Africa in the five Test series was the most satisfying win he had experienced since taking over as captain of the England cricket team was how England captain Michael Vaughan described his team’s historic victory on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2005
The son of former president PW Botha, Piet, has denied saying he would leave South Africa as a result of the new Firearms Control Act. ”What I did say was that I would consider leaving South Africa if I am forced to give up my means to personal self-defence,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2005
Almost half of all African-Americans believe that HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is man-made, more than a quarter believe it was produced in a government laboratory and one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA, according to a study released by the Rand Corporation and the University of Oregon.
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/ 26 January 2005
Insurgents in Iraq released video footage on Tuesday showing a contractor from the United States held hostage at gunpoint in an apparent attempt to put pressure on US authorities before the Iraqi elections at the weekend. The film showed a man identified as Roy Hallums sitting cross-legged on the floor with an assault rifle pointed at his head.
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/ 26 January 2005
For the year ahead expect negligible rate increase, continued dominance by TV and more declines in daily newspapers. Between it all Harry Herber has his money on outdoor. The contractors are more flexible and creative, innovation is matched by good availability, and new impactful, tactical, and less expensive opportunities are presenting themselves continually.
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/ 26 January 2005
Everybody thinks that success in the case will make them rich, compensating for their reputation and dignity being in tatters after the publication of a defamatory or injurious story. Suing for defamation however, might end up costing the plaintiff a whole lot more than its worth. Mark Rosin looks at one of the highest awards ever for damages, and it doesn’t come to all that much.