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/ 9 September 2008
A special Bafana Bafana team, selected to take on England in a friendly match on Thursday, was named on Sunday apparently with the support of national soccer team coach Shakes Mashaba.
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/ 7 September 2006
The Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs has formed a national steering committee (NSC) to consider the recommendations of last year’s land summit, Minister Lulu Xingwana said on Thursday. ”The NSC has to date developed and adopted terms of reference to guide its operations,” the minister said at a press briefing in Pretoria on her first 100 days in office.
Protesting security guards have threatened to disrupt next week’s Freedom Day celebrations at Pretoria’s Union Buildings if their 11% wage demand is not met. ”We are saying there can be no Freedom Day celebrations while there are people who are oppressed,” said Jackson Simon, security coordinator at the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu).
Forcing the Department of Correctional Services to provide anti-retrovirals to Aids-infected inmates was highly opportunistic, Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour’s office said on Wednesday. Fifteen prisoners have lodged an urgent court application to compel the government to provide them with anti-retrovirals.
Solidarity and the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) have given Telkom a 4pm (Wednesday) ultimatum to withdraw a plan to give improved profit-sharing only to workers who did not participate in this week’s two-day strike. ”If Telkom fails to heed this notice, court documents will be served on Telkom at 4pm and the trade unions will go to court.”
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/ 14 February 2006
South Africa’s relationship with Britain is strong, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in Soweto on Monday. ”I want to see it even stronger still,” said Blair, who came to South Africa to attend last weekend’s Progressive Governance Summit. Blair paid a courtesy call on former president Nelson Mandela and visited the Apartheid Museum.
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/ 28 October 2005
The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has appointed a eight technical experts to probe the crash between the Blue Train and the Shosholoza Meyl in the Northern Cape on Wednesday night. Herman Bruwer, the regulatory body’s general manager for safety assurance, said on Friday the RSR was finalising the terms of reference of an independent board of inquiry.
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/ 17 October 2005
The five Sedibeng district municipality residents who were earlier reported to have typhoid are not critically ill, the council’s executive mayor Mlungisi Hlongwane said on Sunday after a meeting with President Thabo Mbeki, who visited the area on Sunday and spoke to officials about problems such as corruption and housing.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation apologised on Thursday for not showing Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka being booed at a rally in Utrecht in KwaZulu-Natal on Women’s Day. ”The SABC apologises unreservedly to the public for not airing the footage,” the public broadcaster said.
Fifteen companies have cost the Department of Public Works R441,1-million in the past two years by fronting as black economic empowerment (BEE) entities, Minister of Public Works Stella Sigcau said on Tuesday. A further 18 companies refused to have their compliance with the department’s BEE requirements checked, she said in Johannesburg.