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/ 22 January 2004
Salome Isaacs, the woman who accused prominent South African judge Siraj Desai of raping her, has unconditionally withdrawn the charges. In a statement on Thursday signed by Isaacs and her husband Mark, she said: ”I hereby wish unconditionally to withdraw the allegation of rape against Mr Siraj Desai.”
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/ 22 January 2004
National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka will not sue those who accused him of having been an apartheid spy, nor resign his post, he said in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”There is a bigger battle to be fought and won in courts. That is the battle against crime,” he said.
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/ 22 January 2004
A strategy by HIV-negative gay men in the UK to avoid infection appears to be to trust that prospective partners with HIV will disclose their status.
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/ 22 January 2004
Evita Bezuidenhout handed out koeksisters and campaign donations to political parties on Thursday at a ”fun raiser” to encourage South Africans to register to vote. ”If you want this to become a dictatorship, don’t do anything this weekend,” said Bezuidenhout.
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/ 22 January 2004
The Inkatha Freedom Party on Thursday asked whether South African Broadcasting Corporation spokesperson Paul Setsetse had received intensive training from Zimbabwe’s Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo. The SABC refused, on Wednesday, to meet with the Democratic Alliance about its election coverage policy.
SABC gives DA cold shoulder
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/ 22 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s <i>Daily News</i> published its first edition on Thursday since being forced to stop printing in September last year. The editor of the newspaper, Nqobile Nyathi, spoke to the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> this morning about what it’s like to be an editor in Zimbabwe.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=29985&t=1">Back on the streets</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=29980">Tsvangirai ‘uneasy’ about murder talk</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=29979">Elderly farmer killed and dumped in a hole</a>
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/ 22 January 2004
Lesetja Kganyago has been appointed the new Director General of the South African National Treasury. Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel made the announcement at a press conference in Pretoria on Thursday. The announcement came as no surprise to capital market participants.
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/ 22 January 2004
General Motors, the world’s largest carmaker, said it hopes to receive final approval by month’s end to buy the remaining stake in South African automotive company Delta.
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/ 22 January 2004
The African National Congress is targeting white, coloured and Indian voters in Gauteng and the Western Cape to break what the party sees as the opposition’s stranglehold on minorities. Support of minorities for the ANC in the past two elections has been negligible, prompting the new strategy.