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Hitting the road with Dad is the only way 14-year-old Albertina Bloem gets to see her ANC MP father during the school holidays. "It's irritating," she admits with a giggle, but her father, Dennis Bloem, has promised she will be in time for her appointment at the hair salon. Then it's back to dealing with abuses of Free State farm workers.
This weekend's final list meeting in Cape Town’s largest township, Khayelitsha, will test provincial African National Congress leaders' claim that tensions in the party are caused by a "small number" of disgruntled members who lost out during the nomination process. Khayelitsha has been at the centre of the upheavals.
The Cape Town council has started transferring deeds to the first group of 24 land claimants almost two years after they returned to District Six. But the city's move has come too late for one of the District Six elders who signed the agreement for the return of the land before President Thabo Mbeki at the emotional "Homecoming" ceremony in November 2000.
With the rand seemingly determined to break through the R7 to the dollar limit, some South Africans may smile at the prospect of overseas travel again becoming affordable. Three economists give their perspectives on the fall and rise of the rand.
Hitting the road with Dad is the only way 14-year-old Albertina Bloem gets to see her ANC MP father during the school holidays. "It's irritating," she admits with a giggle, but her father, Dennis Bloem, has promised she will be in time for her appointment at the hair salon. Then it's back to dealing with abuses of Free State farm workers.
This weekend's final list meeting in Cape Town’s largest township, Khayelitsha, will test provincial African National Congress leaders' claim that tensions in the party are caused by a "small number" of disgruntled members who lost out during the nomination process. Khayelitsha has been at the centre of the upheavals.
The Cape Town council has started transferring deeds to the first group of 24 land claimants almost two years after they returned to District Six. But the city's move has come too late for one of the District Six elders who signed the agreement for the return of the land before President Thabo Mbeki at the emotional "Homecoming" ceremony in November 2000.
With the rand seemingly determined to break through the R7 to the dollar limit, some South Africans may smile at the prospect of overseas travel again becoming affordable. Three economists give their perspectives on the fall and rise of the rand.
