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/ 24 January 2002
The minister of health was sruprised by KZN Premier Lionel Mtshali’s announcement that ARV nevirapine would be administered as an emergency measure.
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/ 10 January 2002
SA will not meet the targeted 80% to 85% TB cure rate set by the World Health Organisation because of Aids.
A United States government aid agency has given South Africa a R200-million grant for building 100 000 low-cost homes, says Housing Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele.
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/ 13 December 2001
Western Cape Premier Peter Marais confirmed that the province will continue to provide ARVs, including nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant women.
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/ 6 December 2001
The Medical Research Council said South Africa’s first HIV/Aids vaccine trials may start as early as February next year.
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/ 15 November 2001
Badges costing R5 will be sold at Absa branches to raise money for children affected by HIV/Aids.
Excluding HIV-positive pupils from school is unlawful and unconstitutional, Minister of Education Kader Asmal has said.
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/ 27 September 2001
Hundreds of Capetonians last Saturday bade farewell to five-year-old Sibongile Mazeka.
Irvin Khoza’s troubles extend beyond the R66-million tax probe directed at him.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela (83) has prostate cancer and will receive radio therapy for seven weeks.
Bryan Rostron The devil continues to have a fine run in South Africa. Hansie Cronje, by his own admission, accepted Satan’s silver. When that cheesy old horror film The Exorcist was recently rereleased, earnest churchmen begged us not to watch in case we were lured by the celluloid wiles of Beelzebub. Two weeks ago in […]
Belinda Anderson Investec research has shown that the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) all share index has outperformed most major global indices when measured over two years in US dollar terms. The JSE has grown by 10,5% over the past 24 months this considering the 22% depreciation in the rand during that time. Its closest competitor […]
Belinda Anderson In his spare time, charismatic fund manager Peter Major dons his hang-glider and jumps off mountains in Cape Town. Now he’s taking another leap away from the world of big institutional fund management, to team up with South Africa entrepreneur-turned information technology billionaire Mark Shuttleworth. Major joins Shuttleworth’s newly formed company HBD (Here […]
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/ 15 September 2000
Former employees of the Mobil refinery in south Durban claim to have been poisoned by the company that employed them
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/ 8 September 2000
William Cooper, the author of <i>Behold a Pale Horse</i>, is closely connected to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Indications that the African National Congress is intent on having the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report rewritten is one aspect of last week’s parliamentary debate on the report which the media appears to have overlooked. A clear hint of this was the repeated reference made in President Nelson Mandela’s speech to the […]
The convicted Mafia money-man at the centre of an alleged Cape Town crime ring has again evaded the Italian police.
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/ 24 January 1997
Gold smuggling suspect Paul Ekon has asked the ANC for the contents of a report allegedly warning party leaders to steer clear of him.
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/ 18 October 1996
Once quite long ago, in a land not so far away, there lived a young woman called Gcina Mhlophe.
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/ 6 September 1996
Flamboyant multi-millionaire Paul Ekon has denied involvement in drug dealing and hit squads, reports Stefaans Brümmer.
The Mail & Guardian report claiming links between National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi and associates of slain mining magnate Brett Kebble are an attempt to tarnish his image by people opposed to police restructuring, the South African Police Union (Sapu) said on Saturday.
It was started by a group of journalists put on the streets by the closures of the <em>Rand Daily Mail</em> and the <em>Sunday Express</em>.