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/ 18 October 2006
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille and Western Cape provincial minister of local government Richard Dyantyi are to hold further talks with Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi. This follows a 90-minute meeting between the three at Mufamadi’s Cape Town office on Wednesday.
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/ 18 October 2006
State-owned PetroSA has begun attaching the assets of oil trader Imvume to recover debt incurred in the Oilgate affair, the parastatal’s chief executive, Sipho Mkhize, said on Wednesday. He told a media briefing in Cape Town that assets worth an estimated R22Â 000 had already been attached from Imvume Management.
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/ 18 October 2006
Civil society and journalists must unite to reverse the trend of declining media freedom before it becomes difficult to reverse, the Freedom of Expression Institute said on Wednesday. In a National Press Freedom Day statement, the institute said it hoped that trends such as the deteriorating state of media freedom at the South African Broadcasting Corporation would not continue next year.
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/ 18 October 2006
Former LeisureNet joint chief executives Peter Gardener and Rod Mitchell have to wait more than a month to know whether they will be found guilty of the array of charges against them. A marathon session of closing arguments, which lasted more than a week, finished on Wednesday, and acting Judge Dirk Uijs said he would deliver his findings on December 1.
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/ 18 October 2006
The Department of Public Enterprises really knows how to throw an expensive party, figures released by the Democratic Alliance (DA) revealed on Wednesday. The post-Budget bash arranged by the department earlier this year — for 36 guests — cost R136Â 524, DA MP Motlatjo Thetjeng said in a statement. This worked out to R3Â 792 per head.
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/ 18 October 2006
The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) has denied its submission to Parliament on the draft Civil Unions Bill endorses same-sex marriage. Media reports regarding the DRC’s submission to the home affairs portfolio committee were in some cases ”un-nuanced” and did not always fully reflect all the facts, the DRC’s Kobus Gerber said on Wednesday.
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/ 18 October 2006
Former South African rugby stars from the national team on Wednesday offered President Thabo Mbeki a hand to tackle the country’s notoriously high crime rate. An eight-member team of former Springbok players, led by ex-captain Wynand Claasens and wing Jacques Olivier, handed over a letter signed by more than 200 of their colleagues at the president’s office.
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/ 18 October 2006
The United States now has a population of more than 300-million people, the United States Census Bureau said on Tuesday, although it will not designate the person who broke the historic barrier. The Census Bureau keeps count of the estimated number of Americans, based on the birth rate, death rate and immigration rate.
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/ 18 October 2006
Eritrea on Wednesday rejected a United Nations Security Council call to immediately withdraw troops from a demilitarised buffer zone on its arch-foe Ethiopia, criticising the world body for ineffectiveness. Asmara claimed it had a sovereign right to have troops on any portion of its soil.
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/ 18 October 2006
South Africa’s housing backlog has widened due to growing urbanisation and demand despite the building of 1,9-million new homes for the poor since the end of apartheid in 1994, the government said. Of the total figure, 1,6-million houses worth about R37-billion have already been transferred to poor households, according to a review released late on Tuesday.