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/ 27 November 2003
Court papers have been served on South Africa’s four largest political parties in an attempt to compel them to reveal the source of all large private donations made into their coffers since January 1 this year. The legal action, launched by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa), is to be heard in court, probably in February.
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/ 27 November 2003
Former South African MPs will get free air tickets according to their years of service in terms of a motion adopted in the National Assembly on Thursday. Former MPs who had served a minimum of five consecutive years in Parliament will receive four single air tickets for every year of service up to a maximum of 15 years.
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/ 27 November 2003
The Cape Town metropolitan municipality and the Overstrand local municipality, both in the Western Cape, have each received a prize of R1-million for being the cleanest towns in South Africa. Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa handed over the prizes to the winners of the cleanest town competition in Cape Town on Thursday.
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/ 27 November 2003
A new fixed-cost wireless broadband internet service will be launched on January next year. In just six weeks, South African internet users will be able to connect at high speed to the internet without a physical telephone-line connection. Sentech on Thursday announced plans to deploy the new services, starting in Gauteng.
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/ 27 November 2003
Those of you with ”Aids fatigue”, brighten up. A pleasant illusion is coming your way. It’s this: now that the battle for the government to provide anti-retrovirals has been won, you can look forward to a decline in the coverage of Aids. The reason is that the politics of the story just got a whole lot softer.
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/ 27 November 2003
The President of Côte d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, flew to Burkina Faso for talks with Burkinese President Blaise Compaore on Wednesday to try to put Côte d’Ivoire’s deadlocked peace process back on track. Gbagbo has accused Campaore of backing rebel forces in the north of Côte d’Ivoire.
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/ 27 November 2003
After two weeks of testimony and 10 witnesses, the Roodefontein corruption trial was on Thursday adjourned to June 21 next year. Bail of R10Â 000 each was extended for former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and his provincial environment minister, David Malatsi.
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/ 27 November 2003
Former <i>City Press</i> editor Vusi Mona refused to tell the Hefer commission on Thursday who the sources were for the story that first raised allegations that Bulelani Ngcuka, the National Director of Public Prosecutions, had been an apartheid spy.
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/ 27 November 2003
India vowed on Thursday to push forward the fragile peace process with Pakistan, as Islamabad hailed a ceasefire between the rival armies across the rugged Kashmiri borders as a ”good beginning”. Officials on both sides said that no violations of the ceasefire have been reported since it started at midnight on Tuesday.
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/ 27 November 2003
About 30% of people living with HIV/Aids worldwide live in Southern Africa, an area that is home to just 2% of the world’s population.