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/ 13 October 2004
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Tuesday told Parliament that authorities have reduced the number of registered voters in urban centres, the party’s traditional stronghold, ahead of next year’s parliamentary polls. The party believes the number of voters in Bulawayo has been cut by 15% since elections in 2002.
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/ 13 October 2004
The South African National Treasury is currently dealing with 150 cases of unauthorised, irregular or fruitless and wasteful spending across the various government departments, involving amounts totalling approximately R1-billion, it emerged at Parliament on Wednesday.
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/ 13 October 2004
The Israeli army expanded its massive operation in northern Gaza, which has already left 112 Palestinians dead in the last two weeks, by moving into the town of Beit Lahiya overnight on Monday. Colonel Eyal Eizenberg said that his troops had met significant resistance as they moved into the town to the north of the Jabaliya refugee camp.
Is it the end of the road for Arafat?
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/ 13 October 2004
The South African Broadcasting Corporation was found guilty of contravening the broadcasting code for airing footage of the beheading of a hostage in Iraq, SABC news said on Tuesday. The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA fined the SABC R15 000 for broadcasting the beheading on its Nguni television news.
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/ 13 October 2004
Two districts in the Western Cape, Khayelitsha and Gugulethu/Nyanga, have HIV rates touching 30%. This translates into at least one in four people being HIV-positive. A disrict survey done at 374 facilities, involving the testing of 5 964 people, revealed that Gugulethu/Nyanga had a prevalence rate of 28,1%, Khayelitsha 27,2%, Helderberg 19,1%, Oostenberg 16,1%, Knysna/Plettenberg Bay 15,6% and Caledon/Hermanus 14,2%.
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/ 13 October 2004
South African journalists may have forgotten the name of Andrew Gilligan, but he’s alive and well, visiting the country this week as a guest of the Rhodes journalism school. He’s the former BBC journalist who reported last year that the British government, led by Alistair Campbell — spokesperson for Prime Minister Tony Blair — had ”sexed up” its Iraq intelligence dossier to bend public opinion to attacking Baghdad.
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/ 13 October 2004
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete has warned two MPs they will need Parliament’s permission to give evidence in the Schabir Shaik trial, currently under way in Durban. Former public accounts committee chairperson Gavin Woods of the Inkatha Freedom Party and Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille might be called as state witnesses in Shaik’s trial.
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/ 13 October 2004
The lawyer for eight South Africans implicated in a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea died in Malabo on Tuesday of malaria, his family said. Fernando Mico Nsue, who also suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure, died on the way to hospital at the age of 62, said his eldest son, Alberto Nguema.
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/ 13 October 2004
If ever you want to makes lots of new friends, just drive around in a Mercedes-Benz SLK 200 K. There are faster sports cars around, but there aren’t many prettier. Gavin Foster lets his hair down in a ride that’s SLKy smooth.
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/ 13 October 2004
The new Mercedes-Benz C55 AMG is quite simply the most uncompromising sports saloon available. From the outside it advertises its attitude with the longer nose of the CLK55, 18” AMG alloy rims, a snazzy exhaust that ends up in aggressive twin tail pipes. It’s loaded to the gunwales with trickery in the suspension and brake department too, in case you think the styling is just fancy-dress.