The South African Police Service (SAPS) is to submit a list of issues that it would prefer to be discussed behind closed doors at the Khampepe commission into the future of the Scorpions. Judge Sisi Khampepe requested the list after hearing submissions on Monday on whether the commission’s proceedings should be held in camera.
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/ 30 September 2005
Within the next three years, motorists travelling alone should expect to pay a fee for doing so, the Department of Transport said on Thursday. The measure, called ”congestion pricing”, will be implemented to encourage the use of public transport, the deputy director general of transport said in Mabatu at the launch of National Transport Month.
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/ 28 September 2005
South Africa must handle its self-assessment in terms of the African Peer Review Mechanism in a way that will benefit the rest of the continent, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. ”It is natural that the rest of the continent will watch this process very carefully,” Mbeki said in Midrand.
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/ 5 September 2005
Medical-aid scheme payments to brokers increased by 21% last year to R704-million without any perceptible increase in the number of new members joining, the Medical Schemes Council said on Monday. Council head Patrick Masobe was speaking at the release of an annual report into medical-aid schemes.
Construction will start in October on the main feature of Pretoria’s Freedom Park, project manager Hendrik Prinsloo said on Wednesday. The structure will include indoor exhibition and discussion areas, a memorial for ”the unknown soldier” and interactive touch screens providing information.
A woman died and a man survived in a nine-hour hostage drama at George Mukhari hospital in Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, on Tuesday, police said. The siege began when the two were held by a third man who had arrived at the hospital’s nurses’ residence at 6.30am, said police spokesperson Inspector Anton Breedt.
Municipalities are to take control of taxi ranks and their management, as some taxi associations have taken to charging operators for using them, Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe said on Monday, adding that the government has committed R2,5-billion to increase its capacity to enforce public-transport laws.
The names of Department of Home Affairs officials found to have been corrupt or to have committed serious acts of misconduct were released by the department on Monday. Sixty-six officials were dismissed between April last year and June this year for serious acts of misconduct, Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said.
Former president Nelson Mandela is an inspiration to the youth to strive for greatness rather than material success.
South Africa backs Iran’s stance on the right of a country to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Monday in Pretoria on the first day of the second session of the South Africa-Iran Deputy Ministerial Working Group’s meeting.