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/ 26 January 2004
Millions of South Africans stand to gain from proposals aimed at extending the benefits of medical aid schemes, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday. ”What we seek to do is ensure that there is equity and fairness in the health care system in South Africa,” Tshabalala-Msimang said.
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/ 26 January 2004
But to resume. Yes, Harare has become a shadow of its former self. I don’t know how important this is to our leadership, who enjoyed some of its splendours in exiled times gone by, and now seem to find nothing wrong with the desolation that it has become. But this is an election year — just as it is in the United States. Grand gestures must be made. Flesh must not just be pressed, but be seen to be pressed.
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/ 26 January 2004
Police spy Johan Smit revealed for the first time on Monday that police had made secret tape recordings of several Boeremag meetings at which an alleged coup plot were discussed. Prosecutor Paul Fick, however, said the state could not use the tapes as evidence as they were not audible.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30163">Boeremag back in court</a>
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/ 26 January 2004
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Monday the world had the capability but ”lacked the will” to prevent the mass slaughters of the 1990s, in opening remarks in Stockholm to the first international genocide conference in more than 50 years.
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/ 26 January 2004
The man at the steering wheel of the National Electricity Regulator, Dr Xolani Mkhwanazi, has asked not to have his contract renewed. The nuclear physicist, who has also spent time at the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research, has not explained his decision to leave the company he has headed since 1999.
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/ 26 January 2004
The Boeremag treason trial resumed on Monday on a lighter note after a delay of more than two months when one of the accused asked for his discharge because of an administrative bungle about his identity. The cross-examination of a state witness, police spy Johannes Conrad Smit, resumed on Monday.
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/ 26 January 2004
Election violence broke out in Gamalakhe township near Port Shepstone on Sunday evening with shots being fired and three people injured, police said on Monday. The Inkatha Freedom Party sent a statement to the media on Monday saying its members had been attacked in Gamalakhe.
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/ 26 January 2004
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, gives notice on Monday of the existence of a nuclear black market of ”fantastic cleverness” supplying countries illicitly seeking to develop a nuclear bomb.
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/ 26 January 2004
President Robert Mugabe did travel to South Africa last week, but the 79-year-old leader did not go there for emergency medical treatment, and was on holiday. ”The president is as fit as none of his detractors can ever hope to be in their lifetime,” said the the state-controlled daily Herald newspaper.
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/ 26 January 2004
Bafana Bafana players have gone and done it again — just as the Ephraim ”Shakes” Mashaba saga came to a close last week. The players in Tunisia started a mini revolt, demanding that their contracts be revisited before their kick-off against Benin on Tuesday. It is not the first time the payment issue has come up for discussion at a crucial tournament.