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/ 16 January 2004
President Thabo Mbeki on Friday tried to address the negativity expressed by South Africans about South Africa. Writing in his weekly online letter Mbeki said South Africa’s democracy was less than ten years old and confronted by serious poverty that would take a great deal of time and effort to eradicate.
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/ 16 January 2004
A senior official at the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has been suspended on charges of fraud and wasteful expenditure of taxpayers’ money. The CAA is responsible for air safety and reports to Minister of Transport Abdullah Omar. It has had ongoing problems with lapses in corporate governance over the past few years.
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/ 16 January 2004
Mpumalanga minister for public works Steve Mabona’s department is facing another investigation — this time by the provincial auditor general. The auditor general’s probe follows closely another investigation by a task team appointed by Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu.
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/ 16 January 2004
The African National Congress’s choice of KwaZulu-Natal to sell its message of peace, hope for the future and a society that truly cares could not have been delivered to a more understanding audience.
A race too close to call
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/ 16 January 2004
The Inkatha Freedom Party and its leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, enter the coming election fighting to keep control of KwaZulu-Natal, and their future as a national political force.
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/ 16 January 2004
When ruling party militants chased Batty’s owners from their farm in Zimbabwe, they gouged out the puppy’s eyes. Bloodied and wounded, he wandered the bush for days before he was rescued by animal rights activists and airlifted to safety in neighbouring South Africa.
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/ 16 January 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa opened slightly firmer on Friday amid a softer rand. Global markets are also expected to open firmer after a mixed day on
Wall Street on Thursday.
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/ 16 January 2004
Faced with racial enmity among its supporters in the Western Cape, the African National Congress goes into the election trying to bridge the divide between the coloured and African communities in the province. The ANC kicks off its 2004 election campaign in the Western Cape on Sunday.
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/ 16 January 2004
Spotters for abalone poachers in the small tourist town of Hermanus on South Africa’s southernmost coast spot the police from afar and often mock them as they try to clamp down on the burgeoning illegal trade. ”Afternoon inspector — there are perlemoen (abalone) poachers down there inspector, you must go look,” one of the men says mockingly.
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/ 16 January 2004
Polio, which used to kill and disable many thousands of children every year, could be eradicated by the end of 2004 in one final last ambitious push to immunise 250-million children several times each.