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/ 10 October 2003
Dismissed Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) CEO Trevor Abrahams’s woes may not be over. A battle is raging within the CAA board on whether to bring criminal charges against Abrahams and recoup thousands of rands he allegedly misappropriated.
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/ 10 October 2003
Despite their prevalence we know very little about suckers. All we know is that since one is born every minute, there are 1 440 more suckers in the world than there were yesterday. That is until M-Net started screening <i>Idols</i> last year — which should be watched very carefully by the king-makers of sport.
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/ 10 October 2003
Allegations have emerged that Schabir Shaik facilitated payments to a girl who laid a rape charge against the deputy president’s son.
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/ 10 October 2003
The Scorpions investigative unit is searching for tons of armaments that former Inkatha Freedom Party warlord Phillip Powell smuggled into KwaZulu-Natal in the early 1990s. Advocate Lungisa Dyosi, legal adviser to Scorpion head Bulelani Ngcuka, confirmed that the unit is in search of the arms, ”which we believe are in the KwaZulu-Natal area”.
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/ 10 October 2003
The Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday it welcomed the expansion of the terms of reference of the Hefer Commission to include Justice Minister Penuell Maduna in the probe. ”But we believe there is still more work for the commission,” said Sheila Camerer, DA justice spokesperson.
Another court crisis for Ngcuka
Arms deal focus
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/ 10 October 2003
South Africa’s High Commissioner to Zimbabwe was on Thursday barricaded into a former white-owned farm by angry black settlers, state television reported. The television said the incident occurred when High Commissioner Jeremiah Ndou visited a farm in Mashonaland West, northern Zimbabwe with a television crew from the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).
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/ 10 October 2003
Alarmed by the dwindling numbers of a rare species of fish, locally known as chambo, the Malawi government has formulated a 10-year plan to restore the fish in Lake Malawi, and its largest outlet, Shire River. Lake Malawi is Africa’s third largest fresh water lake.
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/ 10 October 2003
The Broadcasting Electronic Media and Allied Workers’ Union (Bemawu) this week said it would lodge a complaint with the Broadcasting Complaints Commission over what the union calls the SABC’s abuse of power and biased reporting. By the time the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> went to print on Thursday, about 3 000 — about 70% of SABC workers — were ready to down tools on Friday afternoon (October 10).
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/ 10 October 2003
Adding to accolades awarded to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>, environmental writer Fiona Macleod was a finalist and received a merit award in the 15th South African Breweries Environmental Journalists of the Year Awards this week.
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/ 10 October 2003
The African National Congress’s head office put the brakes on the candidate selection process in its provinces after it emerged that its procedures for drawing up the lists were being flouted by its branches. ANC provincial officials this week said that some branches had submitted candidate lists without actually having met.