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Who are South Africa’s leaders of the future? The Mail & Guardian chose 20 hot under-40s, already making waves in a range of fields, to look out for. Our choices range from Tshilidzi Marwala, who was awarded the Bronze Order of Mapungubwe this year by President Thabo Mbeki, to Umgeni Water CEO Gugu Moloi.
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/ 30 December 2004
A senior official in President Robert Mugabe’s party and Zimbabwe’s new ambassador to Mozambique have been arrested on charges of spying, daily papers reported on Thursday.
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/ 30 December 2004
Government claims of an improvement in 2004’s matric mathematics and science performance came under scrutiny on Thursday, with calls for transparent statistics to be released.
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/ 30 December 2004
Exports grew by 17,52% last month from October while imports dropped by nearly four percent — leading to a narrowing of the country’s trade deficit, the SA Revenue Service (Sars) said on Thursday.
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/ 30 December 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki began a three-day visit to Sudan on Thursday, during which initiatives to end the various conflicts in the East African country are to come under discussion.
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/ 30 December 2004
The South African ambassador to Thailand on Thursday confirmed that the official number of missing South Africans in Thailand stands at 14. In India, two South Africans are still missing. Meanwhile, there was a rapid surge in donations worldwide for emergency relief in Asian countries swept by tidal waves that killed at least 119Â 000 people.
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/ 30 December 2004
South Africans are emptying their pockets this festive season to help victims of the devastating tsunami in South East Asia through a number of emergency response funds set up locally to channel money to needy people — and animals.
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/ 30 December 2004
As the official death toll from Sunday’s devastating earthquake in the Indian Ocean climbed to 119 747, panic added to the misery of survivors today with warnings reported of fresh tsunamis in India and Sri Lanka.
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/ 30 December 2004
Tsunami survivors slammed government officials and singled out the South African ambassador in Thailand on radio and the press for their handling of the tsunami crisis. A Pretoria newspaper quoted survivors accusing South African officials in Thailand of incompetence.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=177242">SA rallies to aid of Tsunami victims</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=177241">Tsunami toll nears 120 000</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=177234">SA relief workers to fly out</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=177235">30 000 Somalis in need of Aid</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=177229">SA tsunami survivors return</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=177200">South Africans still missing</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=177227">Aid arrives in tsunami disaster zones</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=177203">Calls for UN to lead relief effort</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=177202">The true horror emerges</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/content/l3_fl2.asp?cg=tsunami%20disaster&o=194303">Tsunami disaster special report</a>
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/ 30 December 2004
Former president Nelson Mandela has paid a visit to ailing former Eastern Cape premier Raymond Mhlaba at his Summerstrand home in Port Elizabeth, SABC news reported on Wednesday. Mandela was accompanied by his wife Graca.