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/ 8 September 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has attacked the media, saying the press has been trying to send every black official — including the president — to jail. The premier made headlines this week after reshuffling his cabinet to rectify ”instances of mismanagement” and ”alleged wrongdoing”.
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/ 8 September 2003
Former transport minister Mac Maharaj has backed a newspaper report suggesting Bulelani Ngcuka, the National Director of Public Prosecutions, was a probable informant for the South African government during the apartheid era.
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/ 8 September 2003
Booker T Washington, former slave and role model for other liberated North American slaves in the 19th century, used to admonish his fellow Negroes to "dip your bucket where you are". It’s hard to dip your bucket when you’re standing on stony ground.
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/ 8 September 2003
Two adult male cheetah were released on the Eastern Shores of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park on Sunday 7 September marking the return of the world’s fastest cat to a wilderness where they were last seen about 100 years ago.
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/ 8 September 2003
More than 2 500 dignitaries, government officials, indigenous leaders,
businessmen and conservationists from over 170 countries are converging on
Durban for a once-in-a decade event that will take stock of the world’s protected areas and set priorities to safeguard them.
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/ 8 September 2003
The days of conservation islands, fences and fines are over. Instead, South African National Parks (SANParks) has embarked on a focused, multi-faceted campaign to draw people from all walks of life into conservation. The driving force behind the campaign is a new division at SANParks called the directorate of people and conservation.
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/ 8 September 2003
If I had to choose, I would say my favourite story in this edition of <i>Earthyear</i> is the one about young children and community guides teaming up to help leatherback sea tutles nesting on the beaches of Gabon, in West Africa.
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/ 8 September 2003
"The final piece of the jigsaw has fallen into place," opines Supachai Panitchpakdi, director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "This is a historic agreement," he states, "allowing poorer countries to … deal with the diseases that ravage their people." Interesting, but untrue.
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/ 8 September 2003
There may be a stalemate over the second national telephone operator (SNO) to rival Telkom — but a third national operator is emerging. State-owned company Sentech has entered the telecommunications market with its own Internet offering that it says will "break the telephone stranglehold on Internet access".
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/ 8 September 2003
The SABC is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, having to cope with legislative and regulatory changes while simultaneously modernising in order to deliver on its mandate. It has to invest heavily in product, technology and top-class people, while focusing on becoming an efficient, low-cost, high-quality producer.