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/ 13 December 2004
Citizens who received social grants to which they are not entitled have until the end of March to apply for indemnity. Those who fail to do so will face ”drastic measures”, Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya said in Pretoria on Monday. He said about 37Â 000 people are apparently illegally enjoying benefits.
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/ 1 December 2004
Budget reform as a means of improving public service delivery comes under the spotlight on Wednesday as officials from 18 African countries meet in Pretoria to discuss improving public finance management. Jointly hosted by South Africa, Uganda and Mozambique, the three-day Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Seminar is to canvass such issues as budget credibility and improving expenditure quality.
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/ 22 November 2004
Police investigations were continuing on Monday after the discovery of the plastic-wrapped bodies of two adults and two children in a drainpipe in Centurion in recent days. Investigators were on Monday trying to trace the families of the deceased, who had earlier been reported missing in Pretoria, said police spokesperson Captain Piletji Sebola.
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/ 21 November 2004
President Thabo Mbeki hopes to travel to Côte d’Ivoire ”as quickly as possible” to meet all parties to the ongoing conflict in that country and discuss a solution. ”I want to go back very, very quickly,” Mbeki told reporters in Pretoria at the start of discussions with the leader of the rebel-held north.
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/ 16 November 2004
The Public Investment Commissioners have acquired a 15,1% stake in Telkom, which it is to warehouse for the Elephant Consortium, a black economic empowerment firm, for up to six months. The consortium’s bid for Telkom shares has been criticised by opposition parties, the media and trade unions.
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/ 15 November 2004
”Which country in South Africa?” asked the American, upon learning the home country of the visitor with the strange accent. ”Oh, yes,” he said, as a light of recognition flickered in his elderly eyes. ”Isn’t that the home base of that delightful Negro person who spent all those years in jail?”
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/ 8 November 2004
A thwarted escape attempt by three inmates appears to have been behind the deaths of two officials and two prisoners at Pretoria’s C-Max jail on Sunday, the Department of Correctional Services said on Monday. ”It appears that they shot themselves when they realised their plan was not going to work,” said a spokesperson.
C-Max killings a ‘wake-up call’
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/ 22 September 2004
South Africa recorded its first trade account deficit in 22 years during the second quarter of this year, according to the South African Reserve Bank’s quarterly bulletin released on Wednesday. It also recorded a current account deficit of nearly 4% of gross domestic product.
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/ 22 September 2004
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has ordered a forensic audit into an auditor-general finding that unknown net debit entries totalling R10-million in the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF) 2003/04 annual report were incorrectly accounted for as bank charges.
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/ 21 September 2004
Aggravated robbery was the only violent crime to show an increase over the past two financial years, national police commissioner Jackie Selebi announced on Monday. Murders dropped by 9,9%, attempted murder by 17,8%, serious assault by 4,3%, common assault by 2,6% and common robbery by 7,8%, he told reporters in
Pretoria.