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/ 24 October 2003
I must admit feeling a touch nervous as I dare to question the analytical powerhouse that is Essop Pahad, minister of no defined portfolio in the Presidency. I hope, nonetheless, he will forgive me my audacity in telling him that in the matter of the bitchy little spat that, for the last few weeks, has been going on between him and the serried ranks of Pieter-Dirk Uys, he’s been hopelessly wide of the mark.
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/ 24 October 2003
Nasdaq and London-listed Randgold Resources is set to announce early on Friday afternoon that it is increasing its offer for Ghana’s Ashanti Goldfields, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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/ 24 October 2003
Friday’s public hearings of the Hefer Commission are expected to provide greater clarity on the availability of apartheid-era intelligence files to aid its investigation. Advocate George Bizos SC is scheduled to make a submission during the day on behalf of the country’s intelligence agencies.
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/ 24 October 2003
Western Cape Premier and NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk remains unconcerned about calls for his resignation by the DA, which has asked the Scorpions to probe his role in the Count Agusta bribery saga. Marianne Merten spoke to Marthinus van Schalkwyk about scandal, the ANC, the future of the NNP and those posters.
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/ 24 October 2003
State-owned PetroSA has suffered an estimated R1,5-billion loss, allegedly caused by a technical foul-up that shut down the company’s Mossel Bay oil-from-gas plant on July 3 this year. Thus far PetroSA has refused to quantify publicly the cost of the breakdown, caused by the failure of all three steam-generating units.
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/ 24 October 2003
A week of intensive spin-doctoring has failed to settle critical questions facing the biggest and most complex of the tertiary education mergers taking place in South Africa — between the University of South Africa (Unisa), Technikon South Africa (TSA) and Vista University Distance Education Centre.
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/ 24 October 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma is well on his way to getting the all-clear from the state’s ethics watchdogs, even though interest declarations he has made are beset with controversy. Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana’s report on Zuma’s interests, released by Parliament last Friday, substantially clears him, but only on allegations Mushwana chose to investigate.
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/ 24 October 2003
The Executive Members Ethics Act and the provisions of the Code of Ethics are not being implemented consistently by Members of Provincial Executive Councils (MECs) and the Presidency, says a new report by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa).
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/ 24 October 2003
A grassroots news agency, Simbani, will begin providing community radio stations next week with information produced by Africans about Africa. Launched late last week, Simbani African News Agency — meaning talk in ChiChewa, which is spoken in Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique — is an Amarc Africa initiative, says Gilles Foadey, the agency’s editor-in-chief.
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/ 24 October 2003
Listed South African pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare has entered into an agreement with the US-based Clinton Foundation for the manufacture of anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines. Clinton announced in New York that his foundation has reached an agreement with Aspen on a major reduction in the price of HIV/Aids medicine.