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/ 11 October 2002
The Mpumalanga Department of Health announced last week that it has begun a programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV, days after the Mail & Guardian exposed provincial inaction in complying with a court order to provide anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women.
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/ 11 October 2002
Donkeys with soft hooves caused Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa to intervene when he learned that his department’s conservation policy prevented communities in the Baviaans Valley conservation area in the Eastern Cape from going to church.
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/ 11 October 2002
The visdorpie awoke to the thundering sound of tons of prime bull on the hoof on Tuesday, as dozens of NNP politicians stampeded across the floor to join the ANC. The massive defections tilted the balance of power away from the DA and left Tony Leon as a notch in Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s bedpost.
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/ 11 October 2002
Banyana Banyana take on Zambia in an African Women’s Nations Cup qualifier at the Seisa Ramabodu stadium, in Bloemfontein on Saturday. The South Africans are just one game away from qualification after thrashing Zambia 4-1 in the first leg in Zambia a few weeks ago — their sole competitive match so far this year.
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/ 11 October 2002
A Medecins sans Frontieres pilot project operating in southern Malawi to promote Aids awareness and HIV testing has had an almost 100% success rate in its mother-to-child transmission prevention programme.
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/ 11 October 2002
The former head of Israel’s intelligence service held secret talks with a senior Palestinian official six weeks ago in an attempt to curb the violence of the past two years. Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed that the meeting took place in Qatar, but each side saw it differently.
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/ 11 October 2002
The ANC is in a tight spot over its pledge to give the NNP seats in ANC-controlled provincial cabinets. After delivering Cape Town to the ANC in the first week of floor crossing, the NNP clearly expects the provincial rewards pledged in last November’s pact between the parties.
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/ 11 October 2002
Nearly 13 years after the Berlin wall came down, the former communist countries of Eastern Europe, plus Cyprus and Malta, were told this week that they were sufficiently democratic and free-market orientated to join the European Union. Their date with destiny is 2004.
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/ 11 October 2002
On Tuesday, the game of musical chairs known as floor crossing began at last. Not a pretty sight; but nothing constitutionally offensive with it either, said the Constitutional Court a week ago. When the music stops, in 10 days’ time, what will be longer-term legacy of this judgement?
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/ 11 October 2002
There have been strong winds this month in the Hauraki Gulf, off Auckland’s Waitemata harbour, sufficiently biffing to postpone two days of the first stage of the interminable Louis Vuitton Cup which, by the end of January, will provide a challenger to Team New Zealand for the America’s Cup. But the Kiwis — or rather […]