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/ 17 April 2002

Judge doubts rugby player’s evidence

GIVING judgment in the murder trial of five Pietersburg rugby players, Pretoria High Court Judge President Bernard Ngoepe said he had his reservations about testimony of an apparent attempt by some of them to throw the victim, Tshepo Matloha, over a fence, which caused his death.
Ngoepe had not given his verdict by lunchtime and was still summarising evidence.

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/ 17 April 2002

Rugby trial verdict expected later in week

Pretoria | Tuesday THE courtroom in the Pretoria High Court was packed on Tuesday where judgement commenced in the trial of five Pietersburg rugby players accused of murdering 19-year-old Tshepo Matloha. The final verdict, however, will only be known later in the week. Some people were standing in the aisles because they could not find […]

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/ 17 April 2002

Mr President: how many more must die?

Johannesburg | Sunday THE most fundamental crisis in the Aids epidemic was South Africa’s struggle to identify, confront and act on the truth about Aids, said Justice Edwin Cameron of the Supreme Court of Appeal recently. Speaking at the launch of ”A Broken Landscape”, a new book of photographs on HIV/Aids in South Africa by […]

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/ 17 April 2002

Gold Fields counts the cost of Aids

Melbourne | Tuesday HIV/Aids among its workers is projected to cost South African miner Gold Fields between $$4 and $10 for each ounce of gold it mines in added production costs, chairman and chief executive Chris Thompson said on Tuesday. Thompson said more than a quarter of its 50 000 employees were HIV positive and […]