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The three levels of government should work together to ensure better coordination in the formulation and implementation of policies, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. The president was speaking in Empangeni in KwaZulu-Natal at a sitting of the National Council of Provinces .
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/ 5 November 2004
Gauteng’s minister for community safety, Firoz Cachalia, expressed anger and shock at the killing of a police officer at a roadblock in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”It is very saddening to see these kinds of vicious attacks on members who are dedicated to serving their communities,” he said on Friday.
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/ 5 November 2004
There is no need to panic about drought — unless the rain stays away for another two months, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said in Pretoria on Friday. The department is reviewing the state of the Vaal River system to see if water restrictions in Gauteng — now South Africa’s driest province — will be necessary.
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/ 5 November 2004
They are affectionately called the Oscars of the African information and communication technology (ICT) world. On Saturday night at the Dome in Johannesburg, the most outstanding African ICT companies, people and projects will be honoured at the African ICT Achievers Awards 2004.
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/ 5 November 2004
A hasty imposition or deployment of a peacekeeping force to war-ravaged Somalia could ignite renewed conflict, Alejandro Bendana, team leader of the European Union-backed Somalia Strategic Demilitarisation Unit, warned on Thursday. "This is not Iraq," Bendana told journalists at the start of a two-day Somalia planning meeting.
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/ 5 November 2004
"My inspiration for this novel came from reading TRC transcripts — the powerful, shocking, sometimes deeply tragic testimonies of ordinary South Africans." Anthony Egan speaks to Jonty Driver, exiled South African poet and novelist, about his latest book.
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/ 5 November 2004
Double CD <i>The Winds of Change (African Cream)</i> coincides with our celebration of 10 years of democracy. The result is an aural tribute to our history, particularly the dark apartheid years, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 5 November 2004
The chairperson of the African Union, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, is "very concerned" about an outbreak of fighting in Côte d’Ivoire and plans to host a crisis meeting of regional leaders on Saturday, his spokesperson said. "The president is very concerned about the situation," the spokesperson said.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=124978">Warplanes bomb Côte d’Ivoire city</a>
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If 2000 felt like being robbed, this felt like a mugging. Don’t get me wrong, United States George Bush won fair and square, by a greater margin in the popular vote than Ronald Reagan did in 1984. But by mid-afternoon on Tuesday, Democrats up and down the country were suffering from delusions of imminent victory.
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/ 5 November 2004
Thales said on Friday it had won a contract from the British defence ministry for the maritime unmanned air vehicle (UAV), or drone, portion of the ministry’s joint UAV experimentation programme. The French defence electronics group will lead the consortium that won the contract, which also includes Boeing of the United States and QinetiQ of Britain.