The concentration of power in South Africa is the biggest threat to its democracy, the front-runner to assume the leadership of the country’s main opposition party said on Monday. The challenge for the Democratic Alliance is to lure more black voters and help break traditional racial voting patterns, Cape Town mayor Helen Zille said.
A shortage of raw materials and procurement issues may delay the construction of stadiums for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, a government official said on Wednesday. Malcolm Simpson, deputy director general at the Treasury’s World Cup unit, said a shortage of skills, a lack of materials and rising costs could jeopardise the increasingly tight schedule.
A South African company said on Thursday that it was bidding to build a Formula One race circuit near Cape Town’s international airport at an estimated cost of R1-billion. David Gant, chief executive of the South African Grand Prix Corporation, told reporters the project could be scuttled by land problems.
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/ 9 February 2007
The world’s top diamond producer, De Beers, and the South African government will form a new black-controlled diamond mining company, they said on Friday. The new company, which might later be listed on the JSE, will combine the assets of state mining group Alexkor and the Namaqualand mine unit owned by the South African unit of De Beers.
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/ 17 January 2007
Africa’s first America’s Cup hopefuls Team Shosholoza started out with the aim of winning a race or two. Now, despite having the oldest boat in the challengers’ series, the South African team have raised their sights and are determined to make this year’s semifinals.
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/ 11 December 2006
Cocooned inside a Cape Town warehouse is South Africa’s bid for power on the seas: a ,5-million Stealth catamaran, the latest offering from a burgeoning boat-building industry. Dubbed the Flying Gurnard, the Stealth 540, sold before tasting salt water, is a hydrofoil-assisted catamaran which its makers say offers greater speed and fuel efficiency than other power boats.
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/ 29 November 2006
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South Africa will unveil a new plan aimed at fighting its HIV/Aids crisis on Friday, seeking to calm bitter debate. South Africa’s Aids battle has been two-fold, with doctors and community groups struggling to help an estimated five million people infected with the virus and government officials fending off critics.
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/ 17 October 2006
South African municipalities will raise up to R20-billion to fund major infrastructure projects over the next three years, a National Treasury official said on Tuesday. South Africa is planning massive capital expenditure to help push economic growth to at least 6% by 2010 in an attempt to cut widespread poverty.
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/ 19 September 2006
Veteran African National Congress (ANC) MP Ben Turok cut a lonely figure outside Parliament on Tuesday as opposition MPs seized on an invitation by HIV/Aids activists to participate in a ”people’s parliament” convened by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). ”I am here because I want to listen to the TAC. They are an international, well-known organisation,” said Turok.
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/ 14 September 2006
Homosexuals are God’s children, Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane said on Thursday, ahead of a conference in Rwanda with the contentious issue of gays in the church on its agenda. ”We should try to find solutions of living with difference and otherness. Diversity is the creation by the Almighty,” Ndungane told reporters.