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/ 26 October 2006
South African Airways (SAA) is to add extra flights to certain of its domestic routes over the holiday season due to huge demand from customers. The airline experienced its busiest month in September, having carried a record total of 704 000 passengers on its domestic, regional and international flights.
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/ 26 October 2006
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The South African government is setting ”an appalling precedent” by paying former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s legal fees, said the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA). DA justice spokesperson Sheila Camerer said on Thursday: ” … the government has finally admitted that the taxpayer will have to fork out R10-million to pay for Zuma’s highly publicised trials.”
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/ 26 October 2006
Cabinet on Thursday expressed its deep concern about the spate of attacks on, and killings of, Somalis in some parts of South Africa, as well as the impressions this creates. Briefing the media at Parliament after Wednesday’s fortnightly Cabinet meeting, government communications head Themba Maseko said these attacks had fuelled impressions that South Africans were xenophobic.
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/ 26 October 2006
The total number of foreign travellers who visited South Africa during May was 641 700 — up 15,1% compared with May 2005, according to data released by Statistics South Africa on Thursday. In addition, the number of foreign travellers who departed the country in May was 582 120 -– 13,5% more than during May 2005.
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/ 26 October 2006
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) rose by 9% year-on-year (y/y) in September from a 9,2% y/y increase in August, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. The PPI declined -0,7%% on a monthly basis after August’s monthly rise of 1,5%.
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/ 26 October 2006
The Dubai World and London & Regional Properties consortium on Thursday announced plans to invest more than $1-billion in the V&A Waterfront over the next four years, following its successful purchase of the development last month. The bulk of the new developments could be completed before 2010, when South Africa hosts the Soccer World Cup.
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/ 26 October 2006
South Africa has toughened its requirements for Zimbabweans wishing to travel to the country, demanding a Z 000 () security deposit, it emerged Thursday. The state-controlled Herald newspaper said the fee was refundable and would be used to cover the costs of repatriation should the need arise.
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/ 26 October 2006
Zimbabwe acting Information Minister Paul Mangwana says he is ready to ask Parliament to repeal parts of the government’s tough media legislation, but only if journalists submitted to him the offending sections of the law they want changed. Zimbabwe’s Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act is among the harshest media laws in the world.
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/ 26 October 2006
Millions of people in Southern Africa face food shortages after rich countries failed to meet money pledges, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The World Food Programme said a -million gap in funds has forced it to cut aid to up to 4,3-million people in Southern Africa. That included aid to mother and child nutrition centres, school feeding projects and schemes targeting HIV/Aids.
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/ 26 October 2006
He has eluded United States special forces, elite French paratroopers and Britain’s finest, the SAS. But Radovan Karadzic, genocide suspect and regarded by Serbs as a Scarlet Pimpernel-style figure, has finally met his match in Richard Gere. In a film being shot on Thursday on the forested hillsides of northern Zagreb, the Hollywood heartthrob succeeds where Nato, the CIA and the SAS have failed.