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The Democratic Alliance has accused the Eastern Cape African National Congress of ”high decibel” intimidation after a bid on Tuesday to disrupt a DA meeting with a massive sound truck. The truck parked outside a Port Elizabeth hall where a DA lunch-time meeting was in progress.
Special Report: Elections 2004
The widows of three of the men killed in the 1989 Motherwell car bombing have rejected Tuesday’s apology by former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt. Nieuwoudt, who triggered the bomb, tendered the apology in the rehearing in Port Elizabeth of his application for amnesty for the deed.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=33382">Nieuwoudt to face Hefer interrogator</a>
Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt said on Monday he did not remember how he persuaded a trained freedom fighter to cooperate with him after being arrested. Nieuwoudt is applying for amnesty for the 1989 car bomb murders of three black colleagues and an informer at Motherwell.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=33337">Nieuwoudt sorry for saying ‘terrorist'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=33325">Motherwell bombing hearings resume</a>
Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (Ecaar) says it intends to challenge Thursday’s Cape High Court dismissal with costs of its bid to have South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms deal scrapped. ”Obviously we’re disappointed,” said Ecaar spokesperson Terry Crawford-Browne.
Manuel hails failure of application
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>The Western Cape leader of the Freedom Front Plus, Dr Corne Mulder, faces a criminal investigation after he was allegedly seen removing Democratic Alliance posters at the weekend. However, Mulder, who is also the brother of FF+ leader Pieter Mulder, on Tuesday angrily denied a DA claim that he broke the law.
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/ 12 February 2004
In a windswept but joyous ceremony, former South African president Nelson Mandela on Wednesday handed over symbolic keys to the first two homeowners to resettle in Cape Town’s District Six. Ebrahim Murat (87) and Dan Ndzabela (82) will be the first of an estimated 4 000 homeowners to resettle in the area over the next 36 months.
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/ 11 December 2003
The Cape Town man whose complaint led to the banning of a Post Office ad inviting children to write to Father Christmas says he was acting in the true spirit of Christmas. ”I’m trying to keep alive the sentiment and spirit of Christmas,” freelance journalist Andrew October said on Thursday.
Santa letters ad ‘exploits’ SA children
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/ 9 December 2003
An amateur botanist has discovered a new flower, a member of the iris family, near Kleinmond on the southern Cape coast. The plant, a species of ixia, was found by Louis Mostert on an area of private land that had been cleared of alien vegetation for the first time in about 40 years.
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/ 27 November 2003
After two weeks of testimony and 10 witnesses, the Roodefontein corruption trial was on Thursday adjourned to June 21 next year. Bail of R10 000 each was extended for former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and his provincial environment minister, David Malatsi.
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/ 27 November 2003
Former Western Cape provincial minister of environment David Malatsi told developers he was prepared to approve their projects without seeing the environmental impact assessments required by law, the George Regional Court heard on Thursday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=24134">Roodefontein trial postponed</a>