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/ 2 November 2004
Aids lobby group the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is to take the Department of Health to court on Thursday for allegedly obstructing its attempts to obtain information on government targets for the roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs. It says the department compiled a document setting out targets and timetables for the roll-out.
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/ 2 November 2004
Friday November 5 marks the last day of trading of shares in Metro Cash & Carry (Metcash) as such on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE), following the buyout of the company’s African and South African operations by a consortium of Metcash management, a black empowerment consortium and associates.
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/ 2 November 2004
A British acupuncturist in Tokyo has promised to treat everyone who walks into his clinic for free the day after Tuesday’s United States election, if George Bush loses — even the would-be ex-president himself. Edward Obaidey, who treats about 20 people a day, said he stands to lose about 120 000 yen if Senator John Kerry wins.
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/ 2 November 2004
Another day of unrest and violent clashes resulting in deaths and injuries were reported on Tuesday by local residents in China’s south-western province of Sichuan after more than 20 000 farmers protested against a dam project. Officials are putting ”the money into their own bag” said a farmer.
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/ 2 November 2004
French environmentalists reacted with fury on Tuesday after hunters shot dead one of the last remaining bears in the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain. The 15-year-old female was killed on Monday in the Aspe valley when she and her cub were surprised by a group of hunters taking part in a wild-boar shoot.
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/ 2 November 2004
Chad’s security forces have arrested 15 people and recovered assault rifles, knives and machetes they suspect were used in fighting in which 12 people were killed and 15 others wounded. A dispute between a local resident and a trader from a neighbouring community sparked off widespread fighting on Saturday.
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/ 2 November 2004
Foreigners are regularly detained at the Lindela Detention Centre outside Krugersdorp for longer than the permitted 30 days, the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on xenophobia heard on Tuesday. The hearing’s findings will guide what action Parliament will take on the problem of xenophobia.
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/ 2 November 2004
White-collar crime is currently costing the South African economy upward of R40-billion a year, Stallion Security and its division Stallion Investigations said in a statement on Tuesday. A recent KPMG fraud survey detected a massive 13% leap in employee fraud reported since the last survey in 1999.
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/ 2 November 2004
The former police officer who broke down at the Vito Palazzolo inquiry on Monday has been admitted to a clinic, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday. Abraham Smith was to have testified at the inquiry, in which questions from Italian prosecutors are being put to a series of South African witnesses.