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/ 25 September 2003
United States President George Bush’s administration’s ban on funds to clinics that offer abortion counselling is adversely affecting the supply of condoms to countries hit by HIV/Aids. Clinics have closed in African countries because those running them refused to sign a declaration that they will not offer abortions.
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/ 25 September 2003
The sixth successive students’ representative council (SRC) victory for the Freedom Front at Tuks, the University of Pretoria (UP), calls into question the extent of transformation at the institution.
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/ 25 September 2003
The prospects for agricultural revival in Zimbabwe in the new farming season have been thrown into doubt following reports that a parastatal charged with implementing the tillage programme among resettled subsistence farmers is facing serious problems.
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/ 25 September 2003
An intensive six-month search of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction has failed to find a single trace of an illegal arsenal, according to accounts of a report circulated in Washington and London. The timing of this disclosure could not be worse for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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/ 25 September 2003
The South African rand kept its recent strength against the dollar on Thursday morning on the back of the weaker dollar. Dealers said the April 30 best level of R7,05 per dollar was a key technical level and if that broke then the rand could quickly run to R6,80.
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/ 25 September 2003
The Gauteng health department has issued an emergency measles alert to the passengers and crew of a flight that landed in Johannesburg after a passenger contracted measles. Twenty-four cases of measles have been confirmed in Gauteng since the start of the year, compared with five cases for the whole of 2002.
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/ 25 September 2003
Ten of the 12 officials implicated in the draft forensic audit reports on alleged irregularities in the Mpumalanga health department are expected to appear before a tribunal on Thursday. Some of those implicated included former head of the health department Riena Charles and the chief financial officer, Richard Mnisi.
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/ 25 September 2003
Three years after the arrival of the New Beetle in South Africa, Volkswagen has announced that they’ll be bringing the cabriolet version to this country in time for summer. The open top Beetle will come with an 85 kW two-litre engine – good enough for a claimed 185 km/hr and a 0-100 sprint in a shade under 12 seconds.
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/ 25 September 2003
Giniel de Villiers has been confirmed as one of the four works drivers who will compete for Team Nissan in the 2004 Dakar Rally in France, Spain and North Africa next January. The 31-year-old South African, who finished fifth in his debut on the 2003 Dakar Rally this January, will compete in an evolutionary version […]
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/ 25 September 2003
Audi this week launched the current generation S4 in South Africa. This sporty flagship in the A4 range utilises Audi’s powerful 4.2 litre V8 engine which develops an eye watering 253kW of power at 7 000 rpm and 410 Newton metres of torque.