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Civil society, business, labour and political parties are set to participate in South Africa’s evaluation under the African Peer Review Mechanism. Representatives of various sectors of society met in Pretoria on Tuesday to discuss their role in the review, which is expected to cost the country about R8-million.
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/ 13 September 2005
A Dutch citizen living on a smallholding north of Pretoria and his South African wife were arrested on Tuesday for various charges related to dagga, police said. ”The man from Holland and his South African wife had established a dagga plantation on their Hammanskraal smallholding from dagga seeds smuggled in from Holland,” said Constable Brenda Kgafela.
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/ 13 September 2005
A severe jet fuel shortage has forced the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to cut its deliveries in southern Sudan by half at the height of the hunger season. ”This could not have happened at a worse time for the people of Sudan,” said WFP country director Ramiro Lopes da Silva.
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/ 13 September 2005
”I thought I’m going to Lüderitz. I got to Vioolsdrif,” laments skipper Arthur Vaughan, who, after being abandoned at the Namibian border post, hitchhiked almost 200km back to Port Nolloth on the West Coast. Vaughan was meant to go and work on South Atlantic Fisheries Company ships based in Lüderitz while the company tried to secure a licence for them to operate in South African waters.
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/ 13 September 2005
A core of 30 to 40 taxi warlords hold key positions at ranks, and have sufficient clout among ordinary members to give orders to assassinate rivals and collect money for war chests. The committee of inquiry into taxi violence in Cape Town, headed by advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, heard how this group has turned taxi violence in the region into a reign of terror.
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/ 13 September 2005
Torn by conflicting desires to help and with desperate needs at home, perennial aid recipients in Africa have confronted a blizzard of emotions in their response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the wealthy United States. At least five African nations, three of them in the highly undeveloped and disaster prone sub-Saharan Africa, have contributed money to relief efforts.
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/ 13 September 2005
United Nations staff have returned to their offices in Somalia’s temporary seat of government in Jowhar after Somali authorities locked them out of the UN Children’s Fund compound, a UN official in Nairobi confirmed on Tuesday. This follows the relocation of 13 staff on September 8 owing to security concerns in the area.
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/ 13 September 2005
Last-minute talks to avert a strike at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) are unlikely to succeed, a staff representative said on Tuesday. The Commission Staff Association said about 300 commissioners are ”90% certain” to strike from Wednesday.
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/ 13 September 2005
Efforts are under way to improve the sewage system in Delmas in a bid to prevent a repeat of the recent typhoid outbreak, Mpumalanga authorities said on Tuesday. The Democratic Alliance said a party councillor warned the Delmas municipality a few years ago that the municipality should be connected to Rand Water to allow for safe water.
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/ 13 September 2005
Clarence ”Gatemouth” Brown, the famed Louisiana-based singer and guitarist known for Cajun music, blues and jazz, has died in Texas after leaving New Orleans to avoid the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. The Grammy Award-winner died on Saturday aged 81, according to media reports.