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/ 30 November 2005
Treating bilharzia can benefit people with HIV/Aids, according to researchers.
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/ 30 November 2005
Four peace activists, including a Briton, taken hostage in Iraq were accused of being spies in a video released on Tuesday night by a previously unknown group of insurgents. The kidnappers said Norman Kember and the three other men held with him had been masquerading as Christian peace activists in the country to work as spies.
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/ 30 November 2005
National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha has bemoaned the effects of his suspension on his family, colleagues and the public. ”My family, including my aged mother and many other relatives, are deeply distressed by my purported suspension,” he said in a sworn affidavit before the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.
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/ 30 November 2005
The Federation of Unions of South Africa, the National Council of Trade Unions and the Confederation of South African Workers’ Unions are to merge, they revealed on Tuesday. The move will create a politically independent, non-aligned federation with 1,1-million members.
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/ 30 November 2005
Electricity prices are set for an above-inflation increase from April next year to fund power utility Eskom’s expansion programme, News24 reported on Tuesday. This was revealed by Eskom MD of resources and strategy Steve Lennon at a Metal Events conference at Sun City.
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/ 30 November 2005
Deon van der Walt, a well-known South African opera singer, and his father were found shot dead at the family’s Veenwouden farm in northern Paarl on Tuesday, Western Cape police said. Van der Walt was counted among the leading tenors and has performed at all the world’s major opera houses.
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has filed an urgent application in the Cape High Court for an interdict against the activities of controversial vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath. It has also asked the court to find that Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and her department have a duty to stop Rath.
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/ 30 November 2005
Cell C, South Africa’s unlisted third cellphone operator, has posted a 54% rise in its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to R134,5-million in the third quarter of its financial year to the end of September 2005 versus R87,7-million in the second quarter of the year, the group said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 November 2005
There’s an old mantra in the humanitarian aid world — and many still live by it: Whatever you do, don’t let the aid get near the men with guns. Humanitarian assistance, they say, should never be entrusted to armies. Well, a few days ago I was flying low over the crushed ruins of Balakot, a thriving market town and tourist centre that was reduced to rubble in only a few seconds by the earthquake on October 8.
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/ 30 November 2005
Cartoons and animation in the West are predominantly seen as being "you know … for kids", to steal from <i>Hudsucker Proxy</i>. In reality, they are just another vehicle for writers and filmmakers to get their story across. But there’s this constant, almost sneering attitude at the animated and "graphic" genres, as if they automatically have less depth or content than the written word.