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/ 27 October 2003
The leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party youth brigade have had themselves tested for HIV/Aids at the party’s headquarters in Durban. The group said it had taken "the bold step of having ourselves tested" in line with a resolution taken by the IFP youth brigade conference held in Ulundi at the end of August.
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/ 27 October 2003
Judge Joos Hefer should subpoena members of the intelligence agencies to testify before him, Hefer commission evidence leader Kessie Naidu argued on Monday. ”We should leave the ball fairly and squarely in the agencies’ court,” Naidu said.
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/ 27 October 2003
The South African government’s silence on the persecution of the owners and staff of the Zimbabwean newspaper The Daily News by the authorities in that country, is scandalous, Democratic Alliance spokesperson Graham McIntosh said on Monday.
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/ 27 October 2003
Wildfires fed by hot Santa Ana winds have flared into gigantic waves of flame that devoured entire neighbourhoods, choked skies over southern California with ash and killed 13 people in the state’s deadliest wildfire tragedy in a half-century.
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/ 27 October 2003
Swarms of grasshoppers are attacking farm-rich central Sudan, with the worst plague there in three decades also triggering an asthma epidemic that has killed five people, a newspaper said. Five people have died among 600 reported cases of asthma in Wad Medani, about 180km southeast of Khartoum.
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/ 27 October 2003
Eight of the Boeremag treason trialists refused to attend their trial in Pretoria on Monday because of the alleged inhumane conditions at Pretoria’s local prison. Their counsel, Piet Pistorius, told the court he had instructions to launch an urgent application about the jail conditions, which he said prevented them from preparing properly for the trial.
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/ 27 October 2003
The Hefer commission postponed its public hearings on Monday so that intelligence documents could be obtained to aid its investigation into spying allegations. Judge Joos Hefer said the postponement to November 12 was unavoidable.
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/ 27 October 2003
When the alleged Boeremag members return to the dock in the Pretoria High Court on Monday they will have with them an unseen and uncharged co-accused — the right to be presumed innocent and to have a fair trial.
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/ 27 October 2003
South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Monday that the bank has to be wary of changing its policy goals in response to changed circumstances. He once again emphasised that the overriding objective of the central bank is to achieve its CPIX inflation targets.