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/ 20 November 2003
Mo Shaik on Thursday told the Hefer Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating spy claims involving National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, that he would be happy to concede he had been wrong about Ngcuka, as long as he could be shown to be wrong.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23847">Shaik in possession of spy database</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23779">Ex-cop added to list of accusers</a>
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/ 19 November 2003
A comprehensive HIV and Aids treatment plan was approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday. It seeks to provide at least one anti-retroviral service point in every health district within a year. A long-term aim is to give all South Africans requiring treatment access to the programme in their local municipal area within five years.
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/ 19 November 2003
Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt was added on Thursday to the list of accusers of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka. Ngcuka’s spokesperson, Sipho Ngwema, confirmed that the national prosecuting authority, headed by Ngcuka, was investigating Nieuwoudt, whom the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had refused amnesty.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=23770">Maharaj ‘not sure’ about spy claim</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23757">Mo Shaik’s report ‘factually flawed'</a>
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/ 17 November 2003
A Japanese magnetically levitated train broke its own world speed record on Monday when engineers sent it hurtling at 560kph down a test track west of Tokyo. At this speed, the train would travel from Johannesburg to Cape Town in just under three hours, and from Johannesburg to Pretoria in about six minutes.
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/ 17 November 2003
A stony-faced Mac Maharaj presented himself as the paragon of virtue when he took the stand at the Hefer Commission of Inquiry this morning and repeated his allegation that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka ”in all probability” had been an apartheid spy.
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/ 9 November 2003
Sunday Times editor Mathatha Tsedu, dismissed on Saturday by publishers Johnnic Communications, said he was caught in a bind between serving the majority of the paper’s readers who are black and producing a paper white advertisers saw as ”upwardly”.
Political reporter Ranjeni Munusamy was taking legal advice on Wednesday about whether to appear before the Hefer Commission of Inquiry, which will on Monday start probing allegations whether the National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was a spy for the apartheid government.
Arms deal focus
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/ 19 September 2003
M&G journalist Wisani wa ka Ngobeni received another top award this week. He was the winner in the print news category of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards 2003 (northern/southern region). The story was ”Shadow falls on Lekota”, detailing Defence Minister Lekota’s hidden business dealings.
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/ 12 September 2003
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota has denied that a blazing row over the restructuring of the Department of Defence has erupted between South African National Defence Force chief General Siphiwe Nyanda, on the one side, and Lekota and his director general January Masilela, on the other.
”I want a martyr’s death,” Amrozi bin Nurhasyim (41) told reporters from his cell a week ago, forecasting that hundreds more militants would take his place. He will face a firing squad for his part in the worst terrorist attack since 9/11.