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/ 8 December 2006
A recent judgement on the pricing of antiretroviral drugs will not affect an agreement between the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and two major drug companies, the Aids Law Project said on Friday. The judgement is limited to an agreement between the commission and GlaxoSmithKline, the project said.
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/ 8 December 2006
An official of a European swimming team attending the International Paralympic Committee’s Swimming World Championships in Durban was gang-raped on the city’s beachfront, the Daily News reported on Friday. Sources said the woman had decided to go for a walk with a swimming official from another country on Tuesday night.
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/ 8 December 2006
The art of Conrad Botes and Anton Kannemeyer is as at home in decent SA living rooms as an AK-47, writes Danie Marais.
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/ 8 December 2006
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha is to be added as an accused in the so-called hoax e-mail court case in the Pretoria Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria. Software salesperson Muziwendoda Kunene and National Intelligence Agency manager for electronic surveillance Funokwakhe Madladla have already been charged with fraud.
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/ 8 December 2006
Up-market coastal resorts and developments may soon be compelled to provide public access to the coastline they encompass should draft legislation become law. One of the main aims of the new Integrated Coastal Management Bill is to make South Africa’s seashores public property, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in a statement on Friday.
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/ 8 December 2006
Outgoing United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan will ask on Friday how the international community can allow the ”horror” in Sudan’s Darfur region to continue and say there is more than enough blame to shared all around. In a speech to be given in New York, Annan says blame can be shared by those valuing abstract notions of sovereignty over human lives.
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/ 8 December 2006
<b>CHRISTMAS MOVIES OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews two movies that are very much Christmas movies — but very different kinds of Christmas movies.
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/ 8 December 2006
A Nigerian militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), has claimed responsibility for a raid on an oil-export terminal on Thursday in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped. Mend, which staged a series of attacks on the oil industry in February, threatened to launch more attacks within days.
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/ 8 December 2006
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewer William Pretorius singles out the best titles 2006 had to offer.
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/ 8 December 2006
Latin America’s female literary giants have come to the rescue of two women who have been reviled as collaborators in Spanish conquests of the new world that verged on genocide, writes Rory Carroll.