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/ 31 October 2003
South Africa’s internationally acclaimed wine industry could undergo significant changes in the future. A two-day black economic empowerment conference, which began in Cape Town on Friday, is expected to thrash out a black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for the sector.
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/ 30 October 2003
On the eve of his retirement, one of the country’s best known prosecutors has released a report calling for the scrapping of the lengthy recesses currently found in South Africa’s high courts.
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/ 17 October 2003
Both the Guinness Book of Records and Interpol say South Africa is the country with the highest rate of rapes, many of them against children, a conference in Cape Town heard on Friday, the final day of the 25th anniversary conference of the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Southern Africa.
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/ 10 October 2003
Big business has both a moral and legal duty to pay reparations for apartheid, advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza said on Friday. Ntsebeza was speaking at the Black Management Forum’s annual conference in Cape Town, while in the United States a Washington court prepares to hear argument next month against calls to dismiss
a South African apartheid litigation case.
Companies that did not comply with the October 1 deadline to submit reports on employment equity can expect no mercy and face a minimum fine of R500 000, the Department of Labour has announced. A spokesperson said an extension of the deadline is not an option and no late submissions would be accepted.
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has had to shut down computers in two of its office buildings in Pretoria in an attempt to contain the MSBlaster worm computer virus. The worm quickly rendered machines unusable, with e-mail and internet access being refused or very slow, and computers crashing.
Like a slumbering giant waking up to its potential, the North West province is aggressively marketing itself as a premier tourist destination for jaded domestic travellers and as a prime location for overseas tourists.
It was highly important that the work of the African Review Panel was independent and it was well resourced, South African president Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday.
South Africa has the second oldest air force in the world, but a lack of finance and space is threatening to scupper efforts to preserve the country’s flight history.
A young man from Mitchells Plain in Cape Town has taken a step closer to his dream of becoming a chess grandmaster, the first in Sub-Saharan Africa.