Media reports that underfunding of the South African Air Force (SAAF) has caused the service to run down are correct, SAAF chief Lieutenant General Carlo Gagiano said on Friday.
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/ 28 January 2005
South Africa’s Jewish community joined in the worldwide commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camps in a ceremony at a Johannesburg synagogue on Thursday. Rabbi Yossy Goldman thanked the Allies and the Russian army in particular for freeing Europe’s Jews from the Nazis.
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/ 26 January 2005
The world is expected to pause on Thursday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camps, but the event will largely pass unmarked in South Africa. While not an official event, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies is hosting a function to commemorate the day in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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/ 18 January 2005
”Matrics, join the military!” was the call Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota made on Tuesday to last year’s matric class. Lekota told journalists that he wants more matrics to consider the military as a career, saying defence is about more than warfare, it is also about developing a skilled and disciplined citizenry.
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/ 8 December 2004
Have you ever wondered what it takes to start up a World War II museum-piece tank? Surprisingly little, in many instances. Curators at the SA National Museum of Military History regularly start up a selection of their restored fleet of armoured and other vehicles to keep them in running order. Recently, it was the turn of a Soviet T34/85 medium tank of World War II vintage.
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/ 3 December 2004
The profiling of donors by the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) smacked of racism, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Thursday. She was referring to an admission by the SANBS that it racially profiled blood donations and that the Health Department was aware of this. Tshabalala-Msimang said she should have been consulted.
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/ 28 October 2004
This week’s short-lived fact-finding mission by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) to Zimbabwe proved things are not well in Zimbabwe, Cosatu deputy secretary general Bheki Ntshalintshali said on Thursday. The 13-member Cosatu mission was deported from Zimbabwe on Tuesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124509">Govt regrets outcome of Cosatu visit</a>
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/ 28 October 2004
Gold Fields is questioning details of a hostile takeover bid by rival mining group Harmony, the company’s management said on Thursday. Harmony’s hostile offer was received on October 20, Gold Fields chief executive Ian Cockerill told reporters in Johannesburg. On Tuesday, Gold Fields asked the Competition Tribunal to interdict the offer because it questioned the two-stage process proposed by Harmony.
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/ 14 October 2004
Themba Luke Radebe, one of four men accused of murdering members of two Benoni families in February, on Thursday accused the police of assaulting and torturing him to extract a confession. Radebe (44) told Judge Nico Coetzee in the Secunda High Court that a plastic bag was put over his head and kept there until he fainted.
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/ 7 September 2004
Three Telkom unions accused the telephone monopoly on Tuesday of undermining the government’s mandate to create jobs and fight poverty by threatening to retrench workers and charging excessive call rates. The unions refuse to believe that the company is following ”the mandate of government” as claimed by Telkom’s management.