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The long-awaited report on a probe into the motives for incidents in which the occupants of farms were murdered, assaulted and robbed was handed to National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi on Thursday.
As the deadline looms for Deputy President Jacob Zuma to respond to a series of question from the Scorpions, there was no indication by late on Thursday on whether the elite investigating unit had actually received a reply.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Thursday offered to suspend its challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s 2001 election victory if the ruling party commits itself to resolving the political crisis in the southern African country.
The Israeli Parliament voted on Thursday for a bill which prevents Palestinians married to Arab-Israelis from obtaining Israeli citizenship despite accusations that the measure was racist and discriminatory.
Global spending on HIV prevention programmes will have to increase three-fold to ,7-billion by 2005 to help reverse the global Aids epidemic, the latest report by the International HIV/Aids Working Group says.
The Stellenbosch-based Lawyers for Human Rights was closely monitoring a case in which a Kraaifontein farmer allegedly beat his employee, put a gun to his head, and subsequently evicted him.
A lawyer for the San Council of South Africa is confident that obesity drug trials based on a Kalahari cactus will continue despite pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s withdrawal from the project.