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/ 3 September 2004
An interdict to prevent the Mail & Guardian from publishing was dismissed with costs in the High Court at 3am on Friday morning, after the attempt to gag the newspaper was launched at midnight by lawyers acting for the National Council of Provinces and its chairperson, Joyce Kgoali.
MPs who tried to cover their assets
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/ 3 September 2004
Two popular SABC personalities got the chop on Wednesday and insiders at the public broadcaster fear more axing will follow. Arts reporter Alan Swerdlow, who also produces Fiona Ramsay’s show <i>Art of the Matter</i> for SAfm, confirmed that his contract had been terminated. And presenter Tony Lankester’s <i>SAfm Weekend</i> show has also been axed.
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/ 3 September 2004
A number of senior MPs, including Joyce Kgoali, chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), and African National Congress chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, have business interests they have not declared to Parliament, as required by law. In some instances, the companies in question are doing business with the government or are planning to do so.
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/ 3 September 2004
The Zimbabwean government wants to keep the plane that flew the suspected mercenaries into Harare and the 000 the men had on them when they were arrested. It is also after their boots. The plane is valued at between -million and -million, but no valuation was immediately available for the mercenaries’ boots.
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/ 3 September 2004
The Attorney General of Equatorial Guinea, José Olo Obono, was hoping that a free lunch for the international press would help deflect some of the negative coverage that the trial of 18 alleged coup plotters has so far attracted. Unfortunately, two British journalists were jailed for daring to leave the capital without a permit, and so this Wednesday the attorney general and Minister of Security and State Manuel Nguema feasted on the lavish display of prawns and papaya without their guests.
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/ 3 September 2004
Following the axing of Alan Swerdlow’s Art of the Matter, Mike van Graan asks, what will the two-hour guillotined arts programme be replaced by? And it leaves big airwaves to fill.
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/ 3 September 2004
Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri on Thursday announced a number of policy interventions to speed up growth in the information communications technology (ICT) sector, remove constraints, and reduce costs. Briefing the media at Parliament, she said from February 1 next year cellphone operators would be able to use any fixed lines they might need to provide services.
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/ 3 September 2004
A South African citizen will appear before a Vanderbijlpark magistrate on Friday in connection with the contravention of laws on weapons of mass destruction and on nuclear energy, Scorpions spokesperson Sipho Ngwema said on Thursday. The man was arrested on Thursday by investigators led by the National Prosecuting Authority.
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/ 3 September 2004
The Kenyan attorney general has issued a warrant for the arrest of a British-based evangelical pastor who claims to have helped infertile women in his congregation deliver ”miracle babies”. Gilbert Deya, the leader of the Gilbert Deya Ministries, who styles himself archbishop, was named by Kenyan authorities who are investigating the theft and trafficking of children.
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/ 3 September 2004
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, moved on Thursday to calm escalating tension in the hostage crisis in the North Ossetian town of Beslan as sporadic gunfire and explosions threatened to rupture delicate negotiations with Chechen gunmen. Two loud explosions rang out early on Friday near the school where militants were holding hundreds of captives for a second night.
Anger mounts in hostage crisis