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/ 18 January 2005
The new loveLife campaign for 2005 was launched last week. It is again a message that is hard to understand.
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/ 18 January 2005
Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary says he has met the ghost of eminent British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who died during an expedition to Antarctica in 1916. In a video promoting conservation work on Shackleton’s hut in Antarctica, New Zealand’s greatest explorer describes how he saw the apparition when he first visited the hut at Ross Island.
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/ 18 January 2005
Cambodian authorities said on Tuesday that they have acted to combat a growing mouse plague by offering a government bounty of about two cents for every mouse tail farmers can muster. The offer of a bounty on only the severed tails of the mice is meant to encourage people not to waste the rest of the mouse after they receive their reward.
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/ 18 January 2005
Chief land-claims commissioner Tozi Gwanya says he believes that all 22 447 unresolved land-restitution claims will be settled by the end of this year. ”We are confident,” he said on Monday in Cape Town, where he and provincial commissioners are holding their regular quarterly meeting.
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/ 18 January 2005
Pharmacists will not be breaking the law should they not abide by the government’s dispensing-fee rule for medication, and have nothing to fear from threats by the Department of Health to prosecute those who do not adhere to the government’s regulations, says Anthony Norton, attorney for the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=178127">Pharmacies charge ‘whatever they want'</a>
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/ 18 January 2005
Cosatu has accused ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe of attacking the movement’s integrity by suggesting that its plans to revisit Zimbabwe was motivated by a desire to attract media attention. During their last visit, Cosatu delegates were deported back to South Africa for involving themselves in Zimbabwean activities.
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/ 18 January 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was in the red at midday on Tuesday on the back of weaker world markets and a rotation out of banking and cyclical industrial stocks. Resources posted gains, however, helped by a weaker rand. At 12.05pm, the all-share and all-share industrial indices were 0,39% and 0,85% weaker respectively.
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/ 18 January 2005
An apparent about-turn by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on the burning Zimbabwe issue comes in the wake of the detention of an alleged South African spymaster by that country.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=178144">Zim ministers tumble</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=178123">The terror and abuse goes on</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=178104">Fraud, violence in election</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=178117">No word from SA govt on Zim ‘spy'</a>
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/ 18 January 2005
SA Rugby on Monday confirmed the preliminary South African squads to participate in the 2005 Vodacom Rugby Super 12 competition. Three of the four South African squads — the Cats, Sharks and Stormers — must still add players, while the Bulls have confirmed a full squad of 30 players.