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/ 5 December 2006
Diabetes is striking growing numbers of children around the world as parents and doctors fail to diagnose a disease that until recently was associated mostly with middle-aged and elderly people, experts said on Tuesday. ”Diabetes has become a chronic and common disease among children,” Francine Kaufman, a professor of paediatrics, told a news conference.
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/ 5 December 2006
The South African Chamber of Business on Tuesday announced that the figure recorded for its Business Confidence Index (BCI) in November represented an all-time high. The figure recorded was 103,2, the highest since a previous level of 103,1 was registered in April 2006.
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/ 5 December 2006
The United Nation’s top human rights forum will hold a special session on violations in Sudan’s strife-torn region of Darfur on December 12, the world body announced on Tuesday. European and African states in the UN Human Rights Council last week joined forces to call the urgent session, but a date for the session had yet to be set.
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/ 5 December 2006
When the Premier Soccer League (PSL) and sponsors Telkom came up with the slogan ”It’s a whole new ball game” for South Africa’s richest soccer tournament, it could hardly have been on the premise that the final of the Telkom Knockout would emerge as a crowd-pulling white elephant.
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/ 5 December 2006
Pakistan fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif on Tuesday had their bans for doping overturned by an appeals committee. The pair was cleared because neither was advised on taking vitamin supplements that may have led to them testing positive for the banned steroid nandrolone, chairperson Fakhruddin Ibrahim told reporters in Karachi.
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/ 5 December 2006
Zimbabwe, reeling under an economic meltdown, has frozen fees charged by private schools and will impose jail terms on offenders, Education Minister Aeneas Chigwedere was quoted as saying on Tuesday. He said many schools had hiked ”their fees and levies excessively, placing themselves beyond the reach of many schoolchildren”.
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/ 5 December 2006
Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe has announced a road-safety initiative that will be piloted this festive season, his office said on Tuesday. ”Road accidents are the work of man. We create them ourselves and we must therefore also solve the problem,” said Radebe in a speech.
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/ 5 December 2006
A United States marine was sentenced on Monday to 40 years in prison for raping a Filipino woman. The keenly watched trial had sparked widespread anger at the United States’s military presence in the Philippines. In the nationally televised ruling, the judge, Benjamin Pozon, acquitted three other marines and their Filipino driver of complicity, but found Lance Corporal Daniel Smith guilty
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/ 5 December 2006
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has formally asked President Thabo Mbeki to appoint a tribunal in terms of the Police Act to investigate the allegations made against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. ”At worst, the commissioner is possibly guilty of wrongdoing,” Leon said.
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/ 5 December 2006
The Gauteng legislature ordered provincial education minister Angie Motshekga to apologise for infringing its code of conduct by not disclosing her husband’s financial interests in dormant companies. The ethics and privileges committee also warned speaker Richard Mdakane not to declare certain interests in the confidential section of the register of members’ interests instead of the public section.