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/ 3 February 2004
South Africa is to get an initial -million (R275,86-million) from a sum of ,4-billion approved by the US Congress to fight HIV/Aids in 14 countries. The money forms part of an emergency plan for Aids relief for African and Caribbean countries announced by US President George Bush last year.
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/ 3 February 2004
A new, verbal way to send messages via the GSM network that does not require users to type in a SMS is here, Swedish-based telecommunications giant Ericsson has announced. And, like current text-based SMSs, it costs less than a cellphone call.
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/ 3 February 2004
Pretoria treason trial Judge Eben Jordaan’s patience has been tried with yet more complaints from the 22 Boeremag trialists accused of plotting to overthrow the African National Congress government. ”I’m sick and tired. This trial must go on and finish. It cannot be railroaded by these small upsets,” he said on Tuesday.
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/ 3 February 2004
About 40 people were feared dead on Tuesday after a ferry sank on stormy Lake Albert near Uganda’s border with Congo, a senior police officer said on Tuesday. A boat crammed with about 80 passengers and piles of goods capsized on Monday just south of Panyimur landing site, about 280km northwest of Kampala.
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/ 3 February 2004
Many people were feared killed in fresh violence near Port Harcourt, the oil-rich southern Nigerian city, at the weekend, police and press reports said on Tuesday. Fighting broke out when one street gang launched a reprisal attack on suspected members of another gang.
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/ 3 February 2004
The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) intends recommending the minister of justice closes a loophole used to contest legislation that the AFU uses to assist other countries by freezing proceeds of crime hidden in South Africa. ”In many cases the international cooperation in criminal matters law is fairly ineffective,” said AFU head Willie Hofmeyr.
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/ 3 February 2004
South African impressionist and black comic Billy Prince has died after being injured in a car accident in November last year, Parker Leisure Management announced on Tuesday. Owner Joe Parker said Prince (42) was the first black comedian to appear on a white comedy programme in South Africa.
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/ 3 February 2004
Tension between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress had not been the cause of the IFP’s losing one of its three Cabinet posts, the presidency said on Tuesday. Former arts, culture, science and technology minister Ben Ngubane took up, from Monday, an ambassadorship to Japan.
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/ 3 February 2004
The British government will hold an inquiry into the intelligence used in deciding to go to war with Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday. The announcement comes a day after United States President George Bush announced he would name an independent, bipartisan inquiry into faulty intelligence in Iraq.