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The jury was out on the effectiveness of Thursday’s public-service strike in the Western Cape as unions claimed a massive turnout while the provincial government sought to downplay its impact. In Cape Town, police estimated about 17 000 strikers snaked their way through the city.
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/ 16 September 2004
More than 700Â 000 public service workers were on strike on Thursday, making this the biggest strike in South Africa’s history, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union claimed. Schools appeared to have been the hardest hit. Health services were mostly functioning without disruptions.
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/ 16 September 2004
It is illegal to caricature the Carling Black Label trademark for commercial gain, the Supreme Court of Appeal found on Thursday. Laugh It Off had been selling T-shirts emblazoned with the trademark but substituting the words ”Black Labour, White Guilt” for ”Black Label, Carling”. This was detrimental to the value of the trademark, the court held.
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/ 16 September 2004
Mount Asama erupted for the third straight day on Thursday, throwing gray smoke and red-hot rocks into the air and setting off more than 1 000 tiny earthquakes. One of Japan’s largest and most active volcanoes, Mount Asama repeatedly rumbled with small eruptions throughout the day.
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/ 16 September 2004
The Angolan government is going ahead with its plan to hold elections in 2006, the country’s first ballot since 1992, despite opposition party calls for the vote to be held next year. A Cabinet meeting has agreed on administrative measures to prepare for the general and presidential elections.
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/ 16 September 2004
About 50 women from the pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) demonstrated outside the South African embassy in Harare on Thursday, calling for an end to human rights abuses in the country. They were singing protest songs and carrying banners calling for an end to harsh press and public-order laws.
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/ 16 September 2004
Egyptian Mohammed Hussein Heikal has three feet — considering that each of his feet is a foot and a half (45,5cm) long — and is about to get his first pair of shoes at the age of 51. At a towering 7,5 feet (2,3m) in height, Mohammed is reputedly Egypt’s tallest man, and his gargantuan proportions have been a life-long source of grief.
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/ 16 September 2004
Briefing the media at Parliament on Thursday, the Democratic Alliance accused the African National Congress of using opportunistic enticements to lure municipal councillors during the 15-day floor crossing period, and vowed to look into the possibility of amending the relevant legislation.
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/ 16 September 2004
Africans look to the Pan African Parliament (PAP) to help them escape from poverty and underdevelopment, South African President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday told the opening of the PAP’s second sitting at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. Earlier,
about 300 protesters arrived to press for democratic reform in Zimbabwe.
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/ 16 September 2004
With HIV-infected children dying much faster than adults, doctors are scrambling to design new treatment protocols that work even in the most resource-poor settings. In Romania, which two years ago had more than half of all pediatric HIV/Aids cases in Europe, a new initiative has seen mortality rates reduced from 15% to 3%.