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The Democratic Alliance has promised to prove wrong critics who say it is a "white party" by ensuring its 2004 election candidates are selected on basis of their representativeness of South African society, as well as on merit.
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) lamented on Thursday what it described as a grotesque distortion of its programmes by the media, and denied having any violent or lawless intentions. It said it has no plans to ”launch ‘revenge attacks’ or any other ‘vigilante’ action against abusive white farmers or any other landowners”.
The group atop Parmalat’s collapsed dairy empire went bankrupt on Thursday as investigators pursued revelations that are shaking the Italian establishment. Parmalat meanwhile severed all links with international accountants Grant Thornton, for years the auditors of various group divisions.
The North West provincial government said on Thursday that an anti-corruption hotline phone number it had released was incorrect. Premier Popo Molefe said members of the public should use the ”transparency hotline” number to report acts of corruption ”or any deviations from clean and accountable governance”.
A pair of German scientists have become early frontrunners for the 2004 ”Ig Nobels” — the annual awards handed out for eccentric research — thanks to their work in calculating the pooping power of penguins. These flightless birds are known to expel their faeces with great force.
Of an estimated 27-million eligible voters in the country, about 19,4-million have registered to date, the IEC said on Thursday. According to IEC chairperson Brigalia Bam, this is a high rate. If two or three million more people register during the next targeted enrolment weekend, that will amount to a world record, she said.
The only pub in Australia’s hottest Outback town has shut down after its temporary manager quit. The Iron Clad hotel has been serving icy cold beer in Marble Bar, a town of 300 people where the temperature often rises above 40 degrees Celsius, for 111 years.
Rustlers shot and killed 10 people, including five children, in two raids in northern Kenya and set dozens of huts on fire before stealing thousands of goats and hundreds of camels, officials said on Thursday. Security forces were pursuing the two groups of attackers who were attempting to return to their home villages.
An inquiry must be launched into the impact the Zimbabwean banking crisis will have on South African banks that have major equity stakes or subsidiaries active in Zimbabwe, the Democratic Alliance said. ”Minister [Trevor] Manuel must break his silence on the economic consequences of quiet diplomacy,” a DA spokesperson said.