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/ 21 October 2003
A former comrade-in-arms of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka became the Hefer commission’s first witness to testify publicly. Ngcuka reportedly spent many years in prison for refusing to testify against fellow African National Congress member Patrick Ntobeko ("Ntobs") Maqubela, nowadays a lawyer.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22307">’Enough lies and deceit, I’m the spy'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=22267">Sources won’t be compromised</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=29920">Arms deal focus</a>
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/ 21 October 2003
Zimbabwe’s opposition on Tuesday defended its ”peaceful” legal challenge to the legitimacy of the government of longtime leader Robert Mugabe, re-elected last year in controversial polls. ”This case is our peaceful weapon,” David Coltart, an MP and legal adviser of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said during a visit to South Africa.
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/ 21 October 2003
The controversial Postal Services Amendment Bill has got the nod from the African National Congress-dominated public enterprises and labour select committee of South Africa’s National Council of Provinces — despite an eleventh-hour attempt to halt the legislation in its present form.
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/ 21 October 2003
SA Airways has invited the South African public to help name 61 of the national carrier’s new aircraft. South Africans have until the end of this month to come up with names for the 40 Airbuses, the first of which has been named after the former president Nelson Mandela, and 21 Boeings.
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/ 21 October 2003
A consortium led by Accenture has been awarded the tender to set up the information and communication technology systems, valued at R3,7-million, of the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) in Port Elizabeth, the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) said on Tuesday.
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/ 21 October 2003
The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights in the Western Cape is to compensate families and former tenants in Paarl on Saturday for tenancy rights lost in terms of the Group Areas Act of the apartheid era.
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/ 21 October 2003
Zimbabwe’s annual auction of tobacco, once the motor of one of Africa’s most vigorous economies, closed on Monday at its lowest volume in nearly 50 years, with even an even gloomier future for the next season’s crop. Sales on all three auction floors ended with 80,2-million kilogrammes of smoking leaf — less than half last year’s 166-million kilogrammes.
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/ 21 October 2003
The personal computer market in sub-Saharan Africa region totalled 1,247-million units in 2002, with a value of $1,4-billion, and by 2006 unit shipments will top 2,29-million, a report by ICT market analysts BMI-TechKnowledge shows.
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/ 21 October 2003
Some 25 000 slot machines located in 31 casinos across South Africa contribute some R1,7-billion in annual revenue to the national government via taxes, having replaced 150 000 illegal slot machines in operation in 1996, according to National Gambling Board chairperson Chris Fismer.
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/ 21 October 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was slightly weaker just before noon on Tuesday, with a stronger rand offsetting the positive effect of firmer world markets. Dealers said that, as was the case on Monday, there was a general lack of interest in the market and volumes remained fairly light.