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/ 27 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has appealed to all parties to ensure their candidates for the upcoming municipal elections have the interests of their communities at heart and not self-interest. Replying to questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, he said there appeared to be intense competition among people wanting to be elected by their parties as candidates for the elections.
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/ 27 October 2005
Aids activists on Thursday challenged Western Cape health MEC Pierre Uys to seek a court interdict against vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath, or even have him arrested. The call was made in a memorandum handed over at a demonstration by about 200 Treatment Action Campaign members outside Uys’s office in Cape Town.
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/ 27 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has dismissed speculation South Africa might follow Zimbabwe’s example in dealing with land reform. Replying to questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, he said the government was committed to respect the Constitution regarding its approach to land reform, restitution and redistribution.
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/ 27 October 2005
United States President George Bush announced on Thursday that his choice to fill a US Supreme Court vacancy, Harriet Miers, had withdrawn her nomination. The surprise withdrawal of Miers’s nomination comes just over three weeks after she was recommended for the high-profile legal post by Bush on October 3.
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/ 27 October 2005
About R67,2-million not spent on HIV/Aids projects may be given to international organisations, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said at Parliament on Thursday. ”As a minister of health I wouldn’t be proud of that statement,” she told reporters at a pre-Aids Day briefing.
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/ 27 October 2005
Dozens of people were wounded, one of them seriously, on Thursday in clashes between rival factions in the bitter campaign for next month’s referendum on Kenya’s draft Constitution, police and witnesses said. In addition to the injuries, many caused by machete-wielding rioters, a car belonging to a Kenyan lawmaker was set ablaze when then two camps attacked each other in the west of the country.
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/ 27 October 2005
Tour de France organisers unveiled the 20-stage 2006 edition in Paris on Thursday which will be held next July 1-23 and totalling around 3 600km. It will be the first not to feature seven-time winner Lance Armstrong, who is now retired, but the American was a hot topic despite the presence of several of his potential successors.
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/ 27 October 2005
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, on Thursday promised a wide-ranging retaliation against Palestinian militants following Wednesday’s suicide bombing that killed five people. The bomber struck near a falafel stand in Hadera, a busy coastal market town, scattering metal shrapnel that shattered windows and destroyed cars.
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/ 27 October 2005
Protests continued at the University of Zululand on Thursday, with an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) student wing saying political tensions between itself and an African National Congress-aligned student movement had reached ”terrible” proportions.
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/ 27 October 2005
The United Nations has urged India and Jordan, the top contributors to the UN peacekeeping force in Ethiopia and Eritrea, not to withdraw their troops over restrictions imposed by Asmara. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the two countries to delay any decisions about staffing the UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea in the hope that a stalemate over the Eritrean restrictions can be resolved.