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/ 11 February 2004
Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour will meet the senior officials of 12 sports federations on Thursday afternoon to discuss their restructuring. This is an attempt to end the bickering and infighting that has reduced many national teams to embarrassment.
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/ 10 February 2004
In a landmark decision with far-reaching constitutional implications businessmen Brett and Roger Kebble and Hennie Buitendag have been granted leave to appeal against an earlier High Court decision saying they had to stand trial on charges relating to a hostile takeover bid of one of their companies.
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/ 10 February 2004
An Iranian plane crashed on Tuesday near an upper-class residential neighbourhood as the Kish Air Fokker 50 prepared to land at Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates, killing 43 people aboard, Emirates officials said. Three survivors were being treated at a local hospital.
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/ 10 February 2004
Consumers are likely to pay less for doctors’ services and come away from hospitals without paying an arm or a leg after the Competition Commission ruled that doctors and hospitals should set their own prices. The commission said on Tuesday an investigation of the health-care sector has found massive price rigging.
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/ 10 February 2004
Malawi’s President Bakili Muluzi on Tuesday said his own brother Dickson died of Aids three years ago, as he launched the country’s first and long-awaited policy on fighting Aids. ”My own brother, third born in our family, died of Aids three years ago,” said Muluzi, who is a strong advocate in the battle against the pandemic.
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/ 10 February 2004
The passing of Namibia’s new Inheritance and Maintenance Law at the end of last year has proved an enormous shot in the arm for illegitimate children battling for their inheritance. The new law has been hailed as long overdue by legal experts and will also put defaulting fathers under closer scrutiny.
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/ 10 February 2004
In the strongest challenge yet to embattled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, rebels in nearly a dozen towns on Tuesday pressed ahead with a bloody uprising that has killed at least 42 people and prompted fears of a coup d’état. Government supporters in Cap-Haitien on Tuesday built barricades to keep rebels out.
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/ 10 February 2004
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe was due to swear in his newly reshuffled Cabinet — including a new finance minister and an anti-corruption minister — on Tuesday as the government attempts to pull the economy out of a nosedive. Mugabe also announced two new ministries.