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/ 2 December 2004
Kanartel, the consortium led by the UAE’s Etisalat, will soon begin work on Sudan’s second fixed-line telephone network and plans to provide 500 000 lines in the first year of its operation, Etisalat CEO Mohammed Omran said in a statement Wednesday.
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/ 2 December 2004
South Africa’s long-awaited Convergence Bill will be put to Cabinet in January once issues affecting internet broadcasting have been sorted out in the drafting process of the legislation, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe Casaburri said on Thursday. She said her director general was still "not very happy" that the issue of internet broadcasting had not been fully addressed.
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/ 2 December 2004
With the election of former environmental minister Valli Moosa – aka "action man" – as president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), important environmental issues are likely to be pushed on to the international agenda. For the next four years Moosa will be the "global voice of conservation", as he told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> last week after his election at the IUCN conference in Bangkok.
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/ 2 December 2004
A movie is to be made about the life of deceased former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje. Frans Cronje, the older brother of Hansie Cronje who died in a plane crash in George, 500km east of Cape Town two years ago, announced on Wednesday that the Cronje family had authorised a full-length feature film on the life of the late cricketer.
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/ 2 December 2004
The South African Cabinet on Wednesday approved a charter outlining seven guaranteed rights for victims of crime. These included the right to information, to assistance and ”where applicable and possible” to restitution and compensation, government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe told reporters.
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/ 2 December 2004
A toxicologist will study the medical records of 23 current and former Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa employees to determine their state of health, Earthlife Africa said on Wednesday. The organisation has expressed concern there was ”irregularities” in the way in which workers’ medical files had been handled. This comes after a former Koeberg worker, Ron Lockwood, contracted leukaemia.
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/ 2 December 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/142915/aids_icon.gif" align=left>Zibango Hlabe sits watching his family building their new home. He is too weak to help. He has come back to his family in Nqabeni village, near Port Shepstone, after contracting HIV on the mines and growing too ill to work. The impact of his death will psychologically, emotionally and financially affect the lives of his nine children, and brand them as "Aids orphans".
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/ 2 December 2004
An African National Congress campaign of violence is to blame for the assassination of an Inkatha Freedom Party councillor, IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Wednesday. He was reacting to the death of Langa Ntshangase (35) who was shot twice in the head as he entered the front gate of his house in Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal at 9.15pm on Tuesday.
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/ 2 December 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange bounded to an all-time high in opening trade on Thursday, again defying the rand, which was trading at its best levels since January 7, 1999. The bourse continued to be driven by positive sentiment and was further helped by a strong close on United States markets overnight.
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/ 2 December 2004
The two sides in the 11-day crisis in Ukraine showed the first signs of compromise on Wednesday night when they released a joint statement promising an end to opposition blockades of government buildings and to respect the decision of the supreme court which has yet to rule on the validity of the disputed presidential elections.