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/ 23 November 2006
Computers stolen from the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) have all been replaced, said a PAP official on Thursday. ”The computers have been replaced,” said PAP media liaison officer Matome Sebelebele. Earlier in the day, PAP finance committee chairperson Wycliffe Oparanya accused South Africa of not living up to its responsibility as the host country, by failing to replace the computers.
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/ 23 November 2006
A disciplinary hearing into allegations of unprofessional conduct by the former chief state pathologist of the Free State, Dr Leon Wagner, has started in Bloemfontein without him entering any plea. It is alleged that Wagner recorded ”Aids” as the cause of death without the proper evidence and or examining the body.
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/ 23 November 2006
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Thursday rejected any notion that China has ”sinister motives” in Africa. Briefing journalists in Pretoria and Cape Town, he said China’s involvement in Africa was relatively new. ”I want to believe that the Chinese government realises that the relationship cannot just consist of receiving our raw materials,” he said.
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/ 23 November 2006
Six car bombs killed at least 133 people in a Shi’ite stronghold in Baghdad on Thursday, one of the bloodiest attacks since the United States invasion and likely to inflame sectarian passions in a nation sliding towards civil war. A further 201 people were wounded, police said.
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/ 23 November 2006
A total of 303 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have been confirmed across the country, the Department of Health said on Thursday. ”They are in the hospitals, they are on treatment. Some of them have died,” said the department’s head of TB, Dr Lindiwe Mvusi. Mvusi did not have details at hand of how many had died.
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/ 23 November 2006
Springbok prop Cobus Visagie has been named in both squads for next week’s match between South Africa and a World XV. Visagie, who plays for Saracens in the English Premiership, had been overlooked by South Africa coach Jake White for his team’s European tour, but the coach said he had been added to the squad for the December 3 game against the invitational side in Leicester.
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/ 23 November 2006
While employment is still growing in South Africa, it is not as strong as the 30Â 000 jobs being created per month last year. ”No matter which data set you look at, the fact that is that employment is still growing in South Africa … but we are off target for government’s goal of halving unemployment by 2014,” said economist Mike Schussler.
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/ 23 November 2006
More than 25 000 angry Rwandans protested in the capital of Rwanda, Kigali, on Thursday over France’s alleged complicity in the 1994 genocide after a French judge called for the prosecution of President Paul Kagame and associates. Led by genocide survivors and community leaders, thousands paraded through the streets.
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/ 23 November 2006
Security steps have been taken at the Kruger National Park in the wake of attacks at four entrance gates and camps of the park between August and October, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has said. Armed Kruger National Park security and ranger personnel have been deployed at all entrance gates.
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/ 23 November 2006
A leading Zimbabwean rights group on Thursday slammed President Robert Mugabe’s government for failing to ratify a United Nations convention against torture. ”We don’t understand why Zimbabwe is not yet a party to the UN Convention Against Torture,” deputy director for the Southern African Human Rights Trust said.