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/ 20 September 2003

Gay man scores victory in Appeal Court

A gay man claiming compensation from the Road Accident Fund scored a legal victory for homosexuals on Friday in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. Appeal Judge Tom Cloete found in favour of Antonie Michael du Plessis, whose long-term partner, Albert Ernest Clack, died in 1999 in a vehicle collision.

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/ 20 September 2003

Mbeki silences alliance doubters

President Thabo Mbeki has dismissed suggestions the ANC and Cosatu were at loggerheads. He said it had become clear during the trade union federation’s national congress this week that some people were interested in seeing the ANC and Cosatu ”fighting against each other as opponents, or even enemies”.

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/ 20 September 2003

Bizarre BOE name change case dismissed

The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein dismissed on Friday a businessman’s attempt to evade debt repayment through claiming an illegal name change by his bank. The Appeal judge found the argument ‘superficially attractive’, but not surviving ‘the test of the facts or the law’.

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/ 20 September 2003

UN surges to Arafat’s defence

The UN demanded that Israel drop its threat to remove the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, by an overwhelmingly majority yesterday, thus isolating Israel and the US. The general assembly voted 133-4 the day after President Bush blamed Arafat for undermining the current round of peace negotiations.