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/ 12 February 2004
Italian prosecutors have formally notified 14 officials of eight international and local banks that they are under investigation in the €14,3-billion collapse of the dairy group Parmalat, the daily La Repubblica reported on Tuesday. Formal notification is the first step in a judicial process leading to charges being laid.
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/ 12 February 2004
The Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) condemnation of President Thabo Mbeki’s stance on HIV/Aids death figures stemmed from a misunderstanding, the government said on Thursday. The TAC claimed on Wednesday Mbeki had ”misrepresented facts” when he spoke on SABC television on Sunday.
Mbeki ‘misrepresented’ Aids facts
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/ 12 February 2004
Zimbabwe’s rural health delivery system, once regarded as one of the best in Africa, is now in a state of distress. The biggest problem facing the rural health system is the shortage of doctors and nurses, who mostly prefer to work in towns where facilities are better.
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/ 12 February 2004
There was laughter in the public gallery on Thursday as a prisoner questioned the man who accused him of fabricating evidence for submission to the Jali commission probing prison maladministration. The commission chairperson had to stop a heated exchange between the two convicted murderers to ask the audience to behave.
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/ 12 February 2004
All eyes in South Africa are on Hollywood’s Oscar favourite Charlize Theron — even in Parliament, it was reported on Thursday. Parliament’s National Council of Provinces adopted a motion asking that Theron, who stars as a serial killer in the film Monster, to speak ”a little Afrikaans” should she collect an Oscar award this year for her role.
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/ 12 February 2004
About five thousand workers, covering seven shafts, at world number five gold miner Harmony’s mines in the Free State and Klerksdorp went on strike on Wednesday over wage increases. The National Union of Mineworkers said the strike began with the late night shift at 9pm.
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/ 12 February 2004
About 5 000 workers, covering seven shafts, at world number-five gold miner Harmony’s mines in the Free State and Klerksdorp went on strike on Wednesday over wage increases. The National Union of Mineworkers said the strike follows a lengthy process of wage negotiations that began as far back as October 23.
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/ 12 February 2004
More than 600 civil society activists from around the world will meet in Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, next month to exchange information and ideas about development in Africa and elsewhere. The gathering, under the theme Acting Together for a Just World, is the biennial World Assembly of the World Alliance for Citizen Participation.
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/ 12 February 2004
Former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings was to testify on Thursday before a national reconciliation commission investigating human rights abuses during his 19-year regime in the west African state.
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/ 12 February 2004
Nearly 200 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in a remote part of southwestern Ethiopia. A government statement said 196 people were killed and 25 injured in clashes between the Anuaks and other ethnic groups in the Dima district of Gambella state.