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/ 5 February 2004
Although South Africa has scaled up social spending over the past decade, considerable additional funding is needed to improve delivery to the country’s rural poor, a new study has found. One of the key challenges is beefing up service delivery in rural communities such as providing water and electricity.
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/ 11 January 2004
President Thabo Mbeki would resume his normal schedule on Monday after receiving medical attention on Sunday for an allergic reaction to food. Presidential spokesperwson Bheki Khumalo said Mbeki collapsed while addressing an ANC rally at the Harry Gwala stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday.
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/ 5 November 2003
Former apartheid spy Vanessa Brereton has apologised to the anti-apartheid activists she betrayed during her time as agent RS452, saying she does not deserve or expect forgiveness. The former Eastern Cape human rights lawyer said she was ”spellbound” by her lover — senior security policeman Carl Edwards — who recruited her into the secret police in the 1980s.
”Girls my age are doing it, for sure. It’s not a big deal anymore. I know it’s not a good idea, but if you’re getting everything you want from him, you don’t think about other things.”
Angola’s National Measles Campaign looks set to reach record numbers of children, the UN Children’s Fund Unicef reports.
Jack Milne, the managing director of PSC Guaranteed Growth, was on Thursday arrested by the South African Police Service Serious Economic Offences unit in connection with fraud totalling about R250-million.
Over 330 000 employers of domestic workers have registered with the Unemployment Insurance Fund, the Unemployment Insurance Commissioner announced in Pretoria on Monday.
THE 2002 Super 12 rugby season will best be remembered for two chief reasons; the first being the incredible run of 11 successive wins by the all-conquering Crusaders and, secondly, for the absolutely shocking display by the South African sides.
There weren?t any old South African flags flying when the Springboks beat the All Blacks in ?95. Since then our teams have lost some of their shine, and the flags have been creeping back like some kind of cancer
ARTS, Culture, Science and Technology Minister Ben Ngubane on Friday commended and offered his support to the efforts of Mark Shuttleworth who is to take a journey to the International Space Station.