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Zimbabwe will support China as an alternative world power, President Robert Mugabe declared on Tuesday as his country faced an uncertain future within the Commonwealth. Mugabe, who was delivering a state-of-the-nation address to Parliament, said China is increasingly becoming "an alternative global power point".
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=24345">Tsvangirai treason trial resumes</a>
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/ 2 December 2003
Stigma and gender inequality are helping to drive HIV/Aids in South Africa’s traditionally conservative Indian communities. The stigma regarding HIV/Aids — that infection stems mainly from promiscuous sexual behaviour — has stopped many people in the Indian community from acknowledging their status.
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/ 2 December 2003
The treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, accused of plotting to ”eliminate” President Robert Mugabe, resumed on Tuesday after a four-month recess, with state lawyers applying to tighten the charges against him. Tsvangirai is on trial for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe and arrange a military coup.
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/ 2 December 2003
Waving knives and machetes, pro-government mobs extended their siege of France’s main military base in Côte d’Ivoire for a second day on Tuesday — demanding that French peacekeepers withdraw from the former French colony to allow government forces to resume attacks on rebels.
French base under siege
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/ 2 December 2003
Two members of Burundi’s largest former rebel movement, who were recently appointed ministers, arrived on Sunday in the capital, Bujumbura, after several years in exile. ”This is an indication that peace is coming in Burundi,” they told reporters in Bujumbura.
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/ 2 December 2003
The Constitutional Court has rejected businessman Schabir Shaik’s application to strike down parts of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Act that he believed violated his right to silence — apparently after his lawyers appealed the constitutionality of the wrong sub-section of a law.
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/ 2 December 2003
South African telecommunications group Telkom has reportedly been granted leave to appeal the ruling made last year that least cost routing systems and equipment are not, as Telkom contested, illegal and do not infringe the national carrier’s rights under the relevant legislation.
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/ 2 December 2003
One of the so-called Eikenhof Three, Siphiwe James Bholo, has been remanded in custody after a brief appearance in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on attempted murder and armed robbery charges. Bholo was allegedly involved in an attempted cash-in-transit heist outside Duduza in the East Rand on July 11 this year.
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/ 2 December 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was flat in noon trade on Tuesday, with continued strength in the rand offsetting the positive effect of firmer world markets and the gold price sustaining its break above the $400-an-ounce level. At 11.59am, the all-share index was flat (-0,05%).
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/ 2 December 2003
The Aids pressure group Treatment Action Campaign and its chairperson, Zackie Achmat, have been nominated for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination from the American Friends Service Committee says Achmat and the TAC have made ”a significant contribution to the global struggle against Aids”.