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/ 19 November 2007
While he might have been part of the apartheid government’s secret chemical and biological warfare programme, he did not act unprofessionally, Wouter Basson said on Monday. Basson pleaded not guilty to six charges brought against him at the Health Professions Council of South Africa. The charges relate to his time as head of the apartheid government’s chemical and biological warfare project.
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/ 19 November 2007
Three robbers were killed and five others were arrested after they tried to rob a Coin Security van in Pretoria on Monday. National police spokesperson Sally de Beer said the Coin Security guards noticed they were being followed at about 9am on Monday morning by a black Nissan Navara on Christina De Wit Drive in Pretoria.
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/ 19 November 2007
Apartheid-era germ warfare expert Wouter Basson on Monday pleaded not guilty to six charges of unethical conduct. A hearing of the Health Professions Council of South Africa into Basson’s activities during his time as head of the apartheid government’s chemical and biological warfare programme started on Monday.
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/ 19 November 2007
The man at the centre of the African National Congress hoax email saga, Muziwendoda Kunene, had his case postponed for trial next year in the Pretoria magistrate’s court on Monday. Kunene, who had his left hand bandaged after he was shot last week, is charged with contravening the Intelligence Services Oversight Act.
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/ 17 November 2007
The opening day of the second Castle Lager Test between South Africa and New Zealand at Supersport Park on Friday is one the Black Caps will probably prefer to forget. After a good start, the visitors collapsed to 187 for eight after tea, and also received the news that opener Craig Cumming will be unable to resume batting.
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/ 16 November 2007
The opening day of the second Castle Lager Test between South Africa and New Zealand at SuperSport Park on Friday is one the Black Caps would probably prefer to forget. After a good start, the visitors collapsed to 187 for eight after tea, and received the news that injured opener Craig Cumming will be unable to resume batting.
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/ 16 November 2007
A Pretoria High Court judge has reserved judgement in the Mail & Guardian‘s legal challenge of a controversial 2005 report by Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana about his investigation into the Oilgate scandal. The M&G wants to have the report overturned and rewritten.
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/ 15 November 2007
A South African lottery player is sitting with a R10,9-million winning ticket that has not yet been claimed, National Lottery operator Gidani said on Thursday. The ticket was bought in the Eastern Cape and notched up five winning numbers plus the bonus number in the November 3 draw, Gidani’s spokesperson Themi Tulwana said.
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/ 14 November 2007
All HIV vaccine trials in South Africa have been put on hold following the failure of the Phambili trial. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Wednesday invited researchers who worked on the Phambili study to her office in Pretoria to explain the reasons why the vaccine trial was stopped.
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/ 12 November 2007
About three million South African have diabetes and an estimated three million people living with diabetes remain undiagnosed, the International Diabetes Foundation said on Monday. Recently released figures also show that diabetes currently affects 246-million people globally and is expected to affect 380-million people by 2025.
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/ 10 November 2007
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha had no political ambitions and would have retired as National Intelligence Agency director general had he not been fired, the Hatfield Community Court heard on Friday. He is charged with allegedly withholding information from Inspector General of Intelligence Zolile Ngcakani.
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/ 9 November 2007
The fatal shooting at the South African Air Force College in Thaba Tshwane outside Pretoria on Thursday is an indication of the ”outstanding transformation” work still needed in the defence force, the South African Security Forces Union said on Friday. An air-force candidate officer allegedly shot two of his instructors, killing one.
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/ 8 November 2007
Like the Mona Lisa, she has a strange allure; the almost sad eyes looking at you across 2,15-million years. A lifelike bust shows what one of South Africa’s most famous fossils, Mrs Ples, probably looked like. The bust, reconstructed by French artist Elisabeth Daynes, goes on display for the first time in Pretoria from Friday.
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/ 8 November 2007
More than R500 000-worth of damage was caused to underground electricity cables when two men hacked into a live cable in an alleged attempt to steal the copper cable in Kensington, Cape Town, the chairperson of the metal-theft task team said on Thursday.
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/ 6 November 2007
Inequality in South Africa has increased since 1996, the South African Institute of Race Relations said on Tuesday. Figures from the institute’s latest South Africa Survey indicate that the country’s inequality has increased in all the country’s race groups with the exception of whites.
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/ 6 November 2007
An application for the mayor of the Lekwa municipality to repair a Great Trek memorial that had allegedly been damaged by the municipality was postponed in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. The hearing, due to start on Tuesday, was set down to begin on May 22 and 23 next year.
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/ 6 November 2007
The South African Reserve Bank said on Tuesday in its latest <i>Monetary Policy Review</i> that the breach of the 3%-to-6% inflation target is of "significant concern" to the monetary policy committee. The bank added that some of the key inflation risks have proved "persistent" since the previous review was published in May.
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/ 6 November 2007
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Tuesday in its latest <i>Monetary Policy Review</i> that in light of the risks around the subprime crisis in global markets, it is important to maintain a stable and transparent monetary policy regime. Authorities in some emerging markets have been advised to strengthen surveillance.
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/ 5 November 2007
Olievenhoutbosch serial killer Richard Jabulani Nyauza smiled and said he ”felt nothing” after being given 16 life terms in the Pretoria High Court on Monday for a series of gruesome murders. ”I feel nothing. They’re doing too little. It changes nothing,” the HIV-positive Nyauza told reporters before being led down to the court cells.
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/ 5 November 2007
Tighter monetary policy in South Africa and other emerging-market economies is ”very appropriate” given the upside risks to inflation, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said on Monday. Charles Collyns, deputy director for research at the IMF, said emerging markets face different problems to advanced economies.
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/ 5 November 2007
International nuclear-power technology company Westinghouse Electric on Monday announced that it had acquired South African company IST Nuclear for an undisclosed amount. Westinghouse launched its newly acquired South African operation under the name Westinghouse Electric South Africa.
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/ 5 November 2007
Former Tshwane mayor Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was admitted to hospital on Monday after the vehicle in which he was travelling collided head-on with a Toyota Tazz in Pretoria, Tshwane metro police said. Spokesperson William Baloyi said the accident occurred at about 9am at the corner of Pretorius and Church streets.
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/ 2 November 2007
One of the witnesses recalled in the case of former spy boss Billy Masetlha on Friday corroborated evidence that the inspector general of intelligence was sent a report — which he had asked for — on September 30 2005. Although Masetlha’s former personal assistant Nokuthula Motshwane could not be in court, she gave evidence through an affidavit.
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/ 1 November 2007
The inspector general of intelligence will take the witness stand in the Hatfield Community Court on Friday after former spy boss Billy Masetlha’s defence was granted an application to recall witnesses. Zolile Ngcakani is to be asked whether he received a report that Masetlha said he sent to him on September 30 2005.
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/ 31 October 2007
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha was on Wednesday accused of not being consistent in testifying in the Hatfield Community Court. Prosecutor Matric Luphondo said Masetlha gave different versions of when a report requested by Inspector General of Intelligence Zolile Ngcakani was compiled. Masetlha is charged with contravening the Intelligence Services Oversight Act.
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/ 31 October 2007
The restructuring of the police service was causing a drop in morale, South African Police Union spokesperson Barries Machakela told a seminar in Pretoria on Wednesday. ”We support restructuring, but the way it is done is not proper. Morale is low, members are disillusioned,” he said.
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/ 30 October 2007
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha on Tuesday told the Hatfield Community Court how he went though a period of humiliation and victimisation while trying to get access to the premises of the National Intelligence Agency in order to get the information needed by the inspector general of intelligence.
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/ 30 October 2007
He loved women, which is why he paid such a lot of them for sex, alleged Olievenhoutbosch serial killer Richard Jabulani Nyauza told the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. Nyauza said he had sex with a multitude of women but did not know anything about the serial killings in which 16 women died in 2002 and 2006.
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/ 29 October 2007
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha said he found it amusing that the inspector general of intelligence kept asking for a report that had been sent to him several times, the Hatfield Community Court heard on Monday. Testifying under cross-examination, Masetlha said repeated requests from the inspector general for information ”took him aback”.
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/ 29 October 2007
The scourge of armed gangs who attacked and robbed innocent citizens in their own homes caused profound social demoralisation and impeded the transformation of society, a Pretoria High Court judge said on Monday. Judge John Murphy effectively sent a 55-year-old man to jail for 27 years for his role in torturing and robbing an elderly Laudium man and his son.
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/ 26 October 2007
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Thousands of people in Pretoria turned up in rainy weather on Friday for a parade to celebrate the Springboks’ victory in the Rugby World Cup a week ago. They were due in Johannesburg later in the day — and in Soweto on Saturday, after a public outcry over the initial cancellation of that leg of the victory tour.
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/ 26 October 2007
South African rugby chiefs said on Friday that the Springboks would tour Soweto on their nationwide World Cup victory parade after an outcry over a decision to bypass the country’s biggest township. ”Tomorrow morning [Saturday] our team, the coach, the manager, the captain, early in the morning, are going to Soweto,” said SA Rugby president Oregan Hoskins.