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The United Nations food agency is setting up ”pit stops” providing lifesaving information about Aids to food-aid truck drivers and the communities they pass through in some of the world’s most infected countries. The first centre opened its doors at Malawi’s Mwanza border crossing in October.
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The electricity supply to consumers in the Western Cape was interrupted twice in November — but the Koeberg nuclear power station was not the cause of the supply interruptions, the Department of Public Enterprises said on Wednesday. ”On both occasions, Koeberg reacted exactly as it was designed to do,” the department said.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs has been in talks with Equatorial Guinea’s representative in Pretoria in an effort to secure the release of two air-crew members stranded there as pawns in a dispute between aviation companies. Spokesperson Nomafela Kota confirmed this on Wednesday.
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South African athletes won four gold medals on the second day of the 2005 Pacific School Games in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday. Jan (JP) Hoffman, world youth shot-put champion and one of the top athletes at the meeting, won the discus for boys in the 17-to-19 category with a good distance of 48,43m.
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The Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee have ruled he is no angel and fined Mamelodi Sundowns’ Argentinian coach, Angel Cappa, a whopping R50 000 for his role in a fracas with Supersport United coach Pitso Mosimane during the red-hot recent Pretoria PSL derby at Loftus Versfeld.
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Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has clarified events surrounding the runway closure at Cape Town International airport at the weekend that left passengers stranded, saying the closure of the runway was a precautionary measure to prevent any potential safety risks to flight safety.
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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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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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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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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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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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/ 29 November 2005
The Proteas captain, Graeme Smith, and teammate Justin Ontong on Tuesday had X-rays to injuries on their left hands, in Cape Town and Johannesburg respectively. Both players were examined by orthopaedic surgeons soon after their arrival from Mumbai, where South Africa concluded its five-match one-day international series against India.
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HIV/Aids has become the leading cause of deaths in South Africa of children under the age of five years, according to the University of Cape Town’s Children’s Institute. The pandemic is first among a number of factors standing in the way of realising child rights in South Africa, the institute’s director said on Tuesday.
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The police investigation into rape allegations against Jacob Zuma is incomplete, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Mike Hulley said the former deputy president, out of respect for due process, will reserve further comment on the matter until the police have completed their probe.
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If the government bought up just more than half of the farms that came on the market each year, it would easily achieve its target of redistributing 30% of agricultural land to the previously disadvantaged by 2014, says the Democratic Alliance. ”Government must become a far more active participant in the land market,” the DA says.
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Jomo Sono might have been expected to hit the ceiling when the Premier Soccer League on Monday announced the rain-postponed league game between his Jomo Cosmos team and Golden Arrows had been rescheduled for Tuesday — a mere 96 hours before the Coca-Cola Cup final against Supersport United in Polokwane on Saturday.
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On Tuesday, South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack announced that Bafana Bafana caretaker coach Ted Dumitru will put his cards on the table and disclose preliminary details of his plans for the African Nations Cup finals in Egypt at a press conference on Friday.
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Seven years ago, passers-by barely glanced at a handful of protesters on the steps of a Cape Town cathedral, unaware that they were witnessing the birth of Africa’s most powerful Aids lobby group. They were the first members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an NGO led by activist Zackie Achmat.
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Aids activists said on Monday that mismanagement, bureaucracy and inadequate funding have kept the world from meeting the goal of providing treatment to three million people infected by HIV/Aids by the end of the year. The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition said the goal fell short by at least a million people.
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The Inkatha Freedom Party must choose whether to serve in an African National Congress-led KwaZulu-Natal provincial government or pull out, said ANC chief whip in the province Mtholephi Mthikhulu on Monday. Tensions flared over a motion from the ANC’s Cyril Xaba to oust the IFP’s caucus leader, Lionel Mtshali.
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The National Prosecuting Authority on Monday exhumed the remains of two Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres who were ambushed and killed by the apartheid security police on May 4 1983. The NPA said in a statement that the two men were buried at the Tlhabane cemetery on May 10 1983 as unidentified paupers.
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A Swiss ”sex tourist” who was caught a month ago allegedly sodomising a South African boy has cut a deal with the state to pay a fine, The Star newspaper reported on Tuesday. Child-rights organisations have reacted with outrage at what they described as slap on wrist for Peter Zimmerman.
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/ 28 November 2005
Suspended National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha filed an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court on Monday in a bid to secure his legal rights in a running probe into misconduct. Masetlha was told on Thursday that the inspector general of intelligence wanted to interview him on Tuesday.
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NGOs, activists and other interest groups opposing elephant culling in the Kruger National Park met Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Monday. A report from the South African National Parks board in July proposed culling between 5Â 000 and 7Â 000 elephants.
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A little girl strokes the beard of an enormous Father Christmas at Johannesburg’s Rosebank Mall, while her mother croons gentle descriptions of his velvety coat and big girth. It’s Monday morning, which many security analysts warn is a danger time for robbers who know that coffers are swollen from the weekend’s pre-Christmas takings.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs has appealed to the government of Equatorial Guinea to either charge or release two South African air-crew members being refused exit from the oil-rich West African state. Sechan Pillay and Ruwaide Kalbine have been unable to leave since November 17.
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Jacob Zuma should still become president of the African National Congress, the ANC Youth League said on Monday. This follows statements by the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions that they had never said they wanted Zuma to be the president of the ANC.
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Health officials in the Eastern Cape are still searching for 19 boys believed to be at an illegal initiation school in the bush near Flagstaff, said a spokesperson for the provincial department of health on Monday. Also, one boy died after falling ill at another circumcision school in the area.
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The arms deal between South Africa — through Denel — and India should be rescued by the intervention of Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin, says the official South African opposition Democratic Alliance. The DA said Erwin should put pressure on the Denel board to save the deal.
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The Springboks arrived back in South Africa on Monday morning after a weekend that promised much but delivered little — except, perhaps, for a large dose of reality for the men in green and gold. The depleted squad slipped into the country under the radar before 7am on Monday.
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North West police exhumed a grave on Monday morning believed to be that of missing Constable Francis Rasuge and have confirmed that it is not hers. The man who claimed it was Rasuge’s grave will now face fierce interrogation, Senior Superintendent Pieter du Plessis said on Monday.