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/ 29 January 2006
The Democratic Alliance launched its election manifesto on Saturday promising to clean up the African National Congress’ service delivery mess and simplify local municipalities. ”Today local government is in a state of crisis. If we continue this way, South Africa will fail,” DA leader Tony Leon told party leaders and supporters in Johannesburg.
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/ 25 January 2006
Although relatively high growth rates in the past five years have confirmed that African economies are recovering, threats still remain, a United Nations report has found. ”In all, several major threats to African recovery remain,” according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects report released on Wednesday.
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/ 23 January 2006
The health department says inaccurate reporting of new cases of cancer in South Africa was making it difficult to fight the disease.
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/ 14 December 2005
Authorities in Equatorial Guinea plucked two South African air-crew members stranded in that country from the plane that was to return them to Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon, their employer said. The two have been detained in the West African country’s capital, Malabo, since November 10 as pawns in a business dispute.
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/ 10 December 2005
With a guilty verdict in only 7% of rape cases, South Africa’s justice system is facing a crisis, former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka said on Friday. According to a 2002 study, only 5 000 out of 31 000 reported rape cases made it to trial, he told inmates at Leeuwkop prison.
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/ 3 November 2005
Citizens of the Merafong municipality, which includes Carletonville, were not consulted on a decision to incorporate the area into the North West, an South African Communist Party spokesperson said on Thursday. The demarcation has failed the community, said Jomo Mogale, local chairperson of the SACP.
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/ 2 November 2005
A court application by two companies wanting to be declared the black economic empowerment (BEE) partners in the Gautrain project was dismissed with costs in the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday. The application was to decide whether the companies held a 25% stake in the preferred bidder for the Gautrain project.
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/ 29 October 2005
Peering through a microscope, a Durban plastic surgeon worked for seven-and-a-half hours to reattach a severed hand at the city’s St Augustine’s hospital on Friday morning. A 25-year-old employee of a paper company had his left hand severed across the palm by a paper-cutting guillotine on Thursday evening.
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/ 27 October 2005
Collective leadership, humility and unity within the movement are legacies with which former African National Congress president Oliver Tambo left the party, ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Zuma delivered this year’s OR Tambo Memorial Lecture at the University of Johannesburg.
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/ 24 October 2005
South Africa could achieve six percent economic growth before the government’s target date if its policies were rapidly implemented, the International Investment Council said on Sunday. Council members suggested that remaining barriers to growth, such as skills shortages, regulations and infrastructure, should be dealt with more quickly.