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/ 1 February 2005
South Africans have already topped the R10-million target the Red Cross set for aid to tsunami-ravaged Indian Ocean countries, the charity said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, an aircraft on a South African mercy flight to tsunami victims in Somalia landed in that country on Tuesday morning after being delayed in Uganda.
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/ 1 February 2005
On the same day that the International Rugby Board confirmed the three host contestants for the 2011 Rugby World Cup — South Africa, New Zealand and Japan — the South African Football Rugby Union was warned that full and final government support for the event is not yet guaranteed.
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/ 1 February 2005
Microsoft chief Bill Gates visits the headquarters of the European Union on Tuesday, at a time when there is still a disagreement with the EU head office over how the software giant should adapt to the landmark ruling against it. Microsoft said it will respect last March’s ruling while its appeal is pending before EU courts.
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/ 1 February 2005
Four hospitals and 60 pharmacies in the north-eastern Spanish region of Catalonia will distribute cannabis to patients suffering from Aids, cancer, multiple sclerosis or chronic pain of nervous origin, local media reported on Tuesday. Patients not responding to conventional treatments will be prescribed capsules containing cannabis powder.
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/ 1 February 2005
Nadia Neophytou takes a look at <i>Sophiatown</i>, a movie that focuses on the musical aspect of a repressed era.
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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”.