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/ 20 February 2003
The primary contractor in South Africa’s acquisition of four new corvette warships for the navy will be held responsible for ensuring the vessels are up to standard, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Thursday.
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi says he cannot allow the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to go ahead without it providing evidence of its allegations against him and his party.
NO single factor can be said to have been decisive in the Ellis
Park Stadium soccer stampede tragedy on April 11 last year, said
Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe, who headed the commission
of inquiry into the disaster.
The much-delayed and controversial Immigration Bill was finally approved in the National Assembly on Friday, albeit with Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi severely criticising certain last-minute amendments brought by the ANC.
Supposedly ”laid back” Capetonians appear to be leading the way in fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while working at the same time.
About 6 000 of the 10 000 prisoners released monthly from South African jails are HIV-positive.
Farmers in areas bordering Lesotho lost almost 50 000 animals to stock thieves in the year up to September 30, 2001.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Thursday discounted any possibility of South Africa having supplied uranium to Iraq.
The publication of the final report of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission has been put on hold pending further litigation by the Inkatha Freedom Party and its leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.