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A SAA aircraft skidded off the runway at the Johannesburg International airport on Thursday night after heavy rain, South African airways spokesperson Rich Mhkondo said on Friday. He said the aircraft, which was on a flight from Port Elizabeth, landed around 7pm after heavy rain in the Kempton Park area.
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/ 27 February 2004
The Scorpions conducted raids at 11 residences and business premises of employees of South African Airways technical services in a bid to root out alleged corruption at the unit on Friday, the airline said. Some of the raids were conducted at the purchasing department of SAA technical services at the request of the SAA, the airline said.
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/ 27 February 2004
Leaders and officials from more than 50 African states convened a summit on Friday aimed to discuss security strategies for a trouble-plagued continent, with Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi urging Africans to unite if they want to be strong and influential in the world.
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/ 27 February 2004
The South African government donated a total of R45-million to the Office of the Facilitator of the inter-Congolese dialogue, Sir Ketumile Masire, says South African President Thabo Mbeki. The presidency said that the Office of the Facilitator received money "from many donors in the international community".
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/ 27 February 2004
Transcripts of the interview of SABC board member Cecil Msomi with Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications contradict his claim that he disclosed his interest in a communications company that did business with the public broadcaster.
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/ 27 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was firmer in noon trade on Friday, helped by strong performances by heavyweight dual-listed stocks offshore and general positive sentiment. However, volumes were very light — just more than R600-million-worth of shares had changed hands.
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A report launched in Kenya this week indicates that levels of bribery in the country decreased last year. The third Kenya Bribery Index was issued on Tuesday this week by the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International, a Berlin-based NGO. It says that monthly expenditure on bribery in 2003 was about ,8 per person, compared to per person in 2002.
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/ 27 February 2004
Researchers probing mountains and ancient seas in Antarctica have discovered two previously unknown types of dinosaurs, the National Science Foundation reported. The fossilised remains, thousands of kilometres from each other, were found less than a week apart on the frozen continent that once had a far warmer climate.
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/ 27 February 2004
A year after the lost music of Gerard Sekoto, perhaps South Africa’s foremost pioneer painter, was discovered in an old suitcase in the storeroom of the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, a CD of his music is to be recorded by BMG Africa featuring the Blue Heads, a progressive Afro-fusion-jazz ensemble led by veteran jazz pianist, Dimpie Tshabalala. Sarah Hudleston reports.
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"We are not having any visual art in the Constitutional Court chamber. Someone said the judges don’t want any competition — they want the public to look at us. But that’s not the reason. The chamber will be more abstract, but everywhere else in the building there will be art and artistic finishes". Amassing the art collection of the new Constitutional Court has been a labour of love for Judge Albie Sachs.