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/ 14 February 2005
The City of Johannesburg is treating complaints about faulty traffic lights, which have caused several accidents, with the ”utmost urgency”, it said on Monday. This follows threats by motorists that they may take the city to court if it does not ensure that Johannesburg’s many defective traffic lights are repaired.
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/ 14 February 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on Monday released a document on draft licence conditions for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in which the regulator stated that it wants SABC stations to increase local programming while promoting indigenous languages.
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/ 14 February 2005
Politician and convicted fraudster Tony Yengeni has accused former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka of reneging on a deal guaranteeing him a maximum R5Â 000 fine in exchange for a guilty plea. Yengeni, who faces a four-year prison term, claims the agreement was struck at a meeting between himself, Ngcuka and then justice minister Penuell Maduna.
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/ 14 February 2005
Aid for Africa’s starving plummeted in the wake of the Asian tsunami which attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in relief, the World Food Programme said on Monday. ”Donations to WFP’s operations in Africa dropped by 21% in January 2005 to -million, compared to -million in the first month of 2004,” the United Nations agency said.
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/ 14 February 2005
Businesses could be denied government contracts if they are known to donate money to opposition parties, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. This was one of several objections the DA made on Monday in response to a Cape High Court application seeking to compel four political parties, including the DA, to disclose the identities of private donors.
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Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was killed in a huge explosion in central Beirut on Monday. The massive bomb targeted Hariri’s motorcade along this city’s famed seafront boulevard, also killing at least nine other people and injuring at least 100. The explosion set ablaze cars and devastated buildings.
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African Union officials will fly into Somalia on Monday to assess security ahead of the deployment of African troops to help restore an administration after 14 years of chaos. The trip had been scheduled to leave on Friday, but was delayed amid security fears after the slaying of a BBC journalist in Mogadishu last Wednesday.
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/ 14 February 2005
Sakhikamva Investments, a broad- based black empowerment (BEE) investment company with shareholders including The Big Issue and the Black Sash Trust, has declared its third dividend of R200 per share to its shareholders. Sakhikamva was established in 2001 to facilitate broad-based, grassroots participation in the empowerment process.
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/ 14 February 2005
Every year, thousands of Africans fleeing war and economic hardship journey towards the tip of the continent — their sights set on a better life in South Africa. Along with hope for the future, many also bring with them the Aids virus, and South Africa is already grappling with the challenge of providing anti-retroviral drugs to its own citizens.
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/ 14 February 2005
A senior South African military law officer is to help the United Nations investigate allegations of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Allegations of sexual exploitation of girls as young as 13 by peacekeepers in the DRC started emerging around the eastern town of Bunia in early 2004.