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/ 26 October 2004
Media and entertainment group Johnnic Holdings said on Tuesday that it is still considering certain proposals with regards to eliminating the pyramid structure between it and Johnnic Communications (Johncom) and strengthening its black economic empowerment profile.
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/ 26 October 2004
A second day of peace talks on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region broke off early on Tuesday, with rebels refusing face-to-face talks with the government until the African Union meets separately with both sides to draft an agenda. Delegates said the AU-brokered talks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, will resume on Wednesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=124429">UN Security Council to meet in Africa</a>
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/ 26 October 2004
The South African Police Service (SAPS) may be disarmed of its service pistols if no police officer is killed over a two-year period, said National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi on Tuesday. Selebi also said he will shortly turn schools into gun-free zones where not even police officers will be allowed to enter with their weapons.
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/ 26 October 2004
Four car bombs exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, without causing any injuries, but two people were wounded by gunfire, the United States army and local medics said. Car bombs are a favourite tool in a bloody insurgency that has ravaged the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein last year.
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/ 26 October 2004
Self-confessed coup plotter Deon Crous testified on Tuesday in the Boeremag treason trial in the Pretoria High Court that he and five of the Boeremag accused had decided to assassinate Mandela with a home-made bomb after reading in a newspaper that he would open a school near Tzaneen in Limpopo.
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/ 26 October 2004
Armed combatants have brutally raped tens of thousands of women, girls and babies in the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and many are dying "needlessly" because the country’s health care system is incapable of dealing with the crisis, rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 October 2004
Politicians and economists have reacted to Tuesday’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, tabled by Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel in Parliament on Tuesday. George Glynos, market analyst at Econometrix Treasury Management, said: "One has to say that it was a relatively optimistic and fair speech."
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/ 26 October 2004
The attorney general of Equatorial Guinea lied when he applied to the South African government for Mark Thatcher to undergo questioning, the Cape High Court heard on Tuesday. Advocate Peter Hodes was arguing Thatcher’s bid for the overturn of a subpoena ordering him to answer questions on an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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/ 26 October 2004
Medicine pricing was thrown into further confusion on Tuesday when the Pharmacy Council confirmed it is scrapping its guidelines for fees charges on top of legislated dispensing fees. The fees were introduced on October 15 in a bid to cover operating costs not covered by the maximum R26 dispensing fee.
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/ 26 October 2004
The Gauteng province will consider increasing taxes to raise extra funds if research shows this to be justified, the provincial treasury said in Pretoria on Tuesday. Addressing the Gauteng legislature’s finance portfolio committee, Nomfundo Tshabalala, acting deputy director general, said greater revenue raising powers were needed in the province.