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Charges of crimen injuria and intimidation were laid on Tuesday against fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik. A police officer stationed at the Durban High Court claimed he was ”verbally and racially assaulted” before the resumption of Shaik’s trial on Tuesday morning.
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Democratic Alliance chief whip Douglas Gibson called on Tuesday for the immediate release of Zimbabwean opposition MP Roy Bennett and the suspension of links with Zimbabwe while Bennett is in prison. The DA also called on the world’s democratic Parliaments to refuse to have links with Zimbabwe while Bennett is held in prison.
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A pharmaceutical company producing Aids drugs in Zambia is ready to start clinical trials on 28 HIV-positive volunteers, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. Zambia is the first country in the Southern African region to produce anti-retroviral drugs outside South Africa.
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Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour and MPs experienced the toxic smoke and flammability of mattresses at Pollsmoor prison on Wednesday, where three inmates died in a fire last week. ”Honestly, we must check to change this,” said Dennis Bloem, chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on correctional services.
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The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) was to meet later on Tuesday to pass a resolution that backtracks on one passed by the chamber last week — "which regrets the refusal of the president to address the serious crime of rape in our country and to acknowledge the suffering of women and children who are attacked on a daily basis".
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Privatisation came under fire on Tuesday afternoon in a debate in the National Assembly on the planned retrenchment of 7 600 workers at South Africa’s semi-privatised fixed-line telephone monopoly Telkom. Leading the debate was Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder.
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Aids lobby group the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is to take the Department of Health to court on Thursday for allegedly obstructing its attempts to obtain information on government targets for the roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs. It says the department compiled a document setting out targets and timetables for the roll-out.
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Friday November 5 marks the last day of trading of shares in Metro Cash & Carry (Metcash) as such on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE), following the buyout of the company’s African and South African operations by a consortium of Metcash management, a black empowerment consortium and associates.
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A British acupuncturist in Tokyo has promised to treat everyone who walks into his clinic for free the day after Tuesday’s United States election, if George Bush loses — even the would-be ex-president himself. Edward Obaidey, who treats about 20 people a day, said he stands to lose about 120 000 yen if Senator John Kerry wins.