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/ 12 September 2003
Launching their economic empowerment policy ”Opportunity for All” from a humble fabric-painting workshop housed in a shack in Crossroads, the DA aimed to show that effective empowerment starts at grassroots level, reaching people that the government’s BEE policy should assist and advance, but sadly hasn’t.
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/ 11 September 2003
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has described the corruption allegations against Deputy President Jacob Zuma as "politically most serious" in its congress documents.
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/ 11 September 2003
Minister of Justice Penuell Maduna has announced he will convene the ministerial coordinating committee to investigate allegations that National Director of Public Prosecutions chief Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid spy. Maduna also spoke out on the Zuma debate.
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/ 11 September 2003
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon and his Inkatha Freedom Party counterpart Mangosuthu Buthelezi renewed their call on Thursday to other political parties to join their ”coalition for change”. They were speaking at the first-ever joint DA and IFP caucus meeting in Parliament.
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/ 11 September 2003
The European Union demanded on Thursday that the Palestinian Authority take ”all necessary concrete measures” against the ”enemies of peace” responsible for twin suicide attacks against Israelis this week.
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/ 11 September 2003
Two University of Pretoria students have been arrested on Thursday in connection with the alleged gang rape of an 18-year-old woman in their hostel a week ago. A third man is believed to have handed himself over to police on Thursday.
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/ 11 September 2003
The suicide on Wednesday of a South Korean protester during violent clashes at the barricades protecting the World Trade Organisation meeting in Cancun cast a long shadow over the start of five days of trade talks.
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/ 11 September 2003
Every traveller has a special place, somewhere he or she keeps going back to and can never get enough of. For me that place has always been the Kruger National Park. And although I’ve stayed in a number of camps, and loved most of them, I have finally found my ”home” in the Kruger, where I could happily spend eternity.