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/ 23 September 2003
An Aids wave is washing over Southern and East Africa, devastating families and communities, says a UNAids report released at the 13th international conference on Aids in Africa. ”HIV is the first wave of the epidemic, entering silently and virtually unnoticed,” says the report.
Anti-HIV gel still a distant goal
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/ 23 September 2003
The South African National Editors’ Forum has expressed its concern about the clampdown on media freedom in Zimbabwe as well as the South African government’s ”lack of firm response” to the matter, in a letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
Zim police to charge journalists
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/ 23 September 2003
Johnnic Communications, publishers of Elle magazine in South Africa, has suspended the magazine’s editor, Cynthia Vongai, pending the outcome of a disciplinary inquiry. The suspension follows allegations Vongai had plagiarised an article from a website called Askmen.com.
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/ 23 September 2003
As Belize began its long weekend of partying on the night of September 10, the Imperial power of this age, the United States, began a different form of commemoration. The second anniversary of 9/11 appears to herald a new period of, perhaps, a deeper self-reflection. At least that’s the hope.
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/ 23 September 2003
Zimbabwe police are preparing to charge all journalists at the country’s only private daily paper for working without accreditation, a day after the paper’s owners were charged for not having an operating permit. The paper was forcibly shut down 11 days ago for operating illegally under a strict media law.
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/ 23 September 2003
Given that an HIV vaccine ”is certainly many years away”, the quest is on to find a microbicide to provide protection during intercourse. An HIV-killing barrier cream, used like a contraceptive gel, is one of the most important yet also most elusive goals in the fight against Aids, a top scientist has said in Nairobi.
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/ 23 September 2003
Draft legislation paving the way for more effective investigation and prosecution of child pornography offenders has been tabled in Parliament. The Films and Publications Amendment Bill seeks, among other things, to provide a new definition of child pornography in the principle Act.
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/ 23 September 2003
Dollar-selling kept the South African rand firm against major currencies in late morning trade on Tuesday after the local unit shrugged off in-line-with-expectations consumer inflation data released on Tuesday morning. The rand could test the long-term best levels of about R7,05 seen in late April.
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/ 23 September 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was a sea of red in noon trade on Tuesday on the back of a stronger rand and weaker world markets. Shares at the top end of the market, as expected, were hardest hit and only eight shares on the Top 40 index were in the black.
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/ 23 September 2003
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Koehler, has backed the call by the Group of Seven of leading industrialised economies for more flexibility in exchange rates. ”Allowing greater exchange-rate flexibility would be helpful both domestically and globally,” he said.