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/ 13 December 2005
Parliament will have an attentive audience on Wednesday when residents of Merafong municipality gather to hear the result of their demand to remain part of Gauteng province. On Monday, a protest march ended in the handing over of a memorandum calling for the proposal that Merafong be incorporated into North West to be withdrawn.
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/ 30 November 2005
The Department of Foreign Affairs has been in talks with Equatorial Guinea’s representative in Pretoria in an effort to secure the release of two air-crew members stranded there as pawns in a dispute between aviation companies. Spokesperson Nomafela Kota confirmed this on Wednesday.
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/ 28 November 2005
The Department of Foreign Affairs has appealed to the government of Equatorial Guinea to either charge or release two South African air-crew members being refused exit from the oil-rich West African state. Sechan Pillay and Ruwaide Kalbine have been unable to leave since November 17.
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/ 25 November 2005
Residents of Merafong who want their municipality to remain a part of Gauteng shouted down speakers who wanted incorporation into the North West province at a public hearing in Carletonville on Friday, convened to hear views on a demarcation crisis in the area.
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/ 8 November 2005
”An awful lot” needs to be done before mid-December when financial closure is expected to be reached between stakeholders of the Gautrain project, local construction partner Murray & Roberts said on Tuesday. The executive director of the company, Arnold Miller, said there was nonetheless no reason to suppose that financial closure could not be reached.
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/ 3 November 2005
Taxi drivers slowly edged their minibuses around boulders placed in the roads of Khutsong, in the Carletonville area, after a day of protests on Wednesday over a proposal that the Merafong municipality be incorporated into the North West province. It is in Gauteng at present.
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/ 12 October 2005
Ten-year-old Liam Aspeling, who was kidnapped on Tuesday morning, arrived home to a hero’s welcome in a police car at his Ennerdale, Johannesburg, home on Wednesday evening. Still in his school uniform, he was lifted on to the shoulders of an adult and waved at well-wishers in the street.
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/ 12 October 2005
Anastasia Aspeling, mother of 10-year-old Liam who was found on Wednesday after his kidnapping in Ennerdale south of Johannesburg on Tuesday, said she is not someone who seeks revenge. ”I just want my son back. The law can deal with the people who took him [if they are arrested] as it sees fit,” she said.
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/ 22 September 2005
Social crimes, which are on the increase, are often committed behind closed doors and difficult to police, according to Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula. Addressing a Business against Crime dinner, he said combined efforts by government ministries have increased the number of arrests and improved investigations.
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/ 3 September 2005
Floor-crossing, dubbed ”crosstitution”, will lead to the rapid consolidation of a one-party state in South Africa, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi told the party’s 30th annual conference on Saturday. ”Our democracy is crumbling because those in power do not care,” he said.