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/ 20 February 2004
A R20-million hospital-sharing partnership between the Eastern Cape health department and the private sector, the first of its kind in South Africa, was launched on Friday.
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/ 20 February 2004
In the gory days of the total onslaught, when the Pan Africanist Congress was still banned and the only PACs active in the country were the performing arts councils with their battle cry of ”one settler, one ballet”, the apartheid regime sought to regiment even the artists in its indirect employ, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 20 February 2004
A second ambulance has been hijacked this week in KwaZulu-Natal after a hoax call, police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said the latest incident happened on Thursday night at approximately 10pm in J-Section, Umlazi, near Durban. This first incident took place on Tuesday.
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/ 20 February 2004
Since its inception in 2000, Zimbabwe’s national youth training programme has been dogged by a welter of criticism and demands for its disbandment. The main complaint is that it is simply a ruse by the ruling Zanu-PF government to brainwash hapless youths, and turn them into a militia for terrorising the opposition.
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/ 20 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was slightly firmer in noon trade on Friday, with a weaker rand and continued demand for heavyweights Anglo American and BHP Billiton giving the market a lift. However, volumes remained fairly light, dealers said.
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/ 20 February 2004
Mozambique will boost the generating capacity of its giant Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam by 70% if the sale of Portugal’s controlling stake in the plant’s holding company goes ahead, an official from the southern African nation said on Thursday.
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/ 20 February 2004
World number four gold miner Gold Fields’ $160-million Tarkwa expansion remains on schedule and within budget, investment bank Merrill Lynch says in a recent note following a visit to Gold Fields’s Ghana gold mines.
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/ 20 February 2004
For all his dynamic onstage performances and rock’n’roll personae, Arno Carstens has always been a somewhat reclusive, reserved individual. Despite life’s contradictions, he’s is still the closest thing we have to a genuine, home-grown rock star, writes David Chislett.
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/ 20 February 2004
”I am told by my sources in the CIA that the real motto of the company is ”And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall piss you off!” For some reason or other, I found myself thinking about this while reading Denis Beckett’s latest book,” writes Anthony Egan of Redeeming Features.