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/ 22 November 2002
Government and African National Congress structures in the Eastern Cape are under siege because the province is viewed as spearheading a planned left-wing challenge to the ANC leadership at the party’s national conference in December, senior members say.
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/ 22 November 2002
The planned free trade deal with the United States might not turn out to be a boon for South Africa, argues a prominent economist who also has reservations about the existing African Growth and Opportunity Act.
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/ 22 November 2002
The political rehabilitation of former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni — who is still under the shadow of fraud and corruption charges — continues apace.
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/ 22 November 2002
Almost half the Eastern Cape government officials surveyed by a corruption monitor believe it is ”not wrong” or ”wrong but understandable” for them to accept gifts from citizens in return for services.
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/ 22 November 2002
In the latest salvo in the war within the ruling alliance, the South African Communist Party has revealed that the African National Congress, while in exile, had called for ”continuing revolution that would lead to a socialist order”.
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/ 22 November 2002
Oom Schalk just showed Lemmer a story in the Bosveld Herald about the government wanting South Africans with dual nationalities to give up one of them. Magtig, this is just like the old days when Pieter Willem in his krokodilskoene wanted foreigners not to vote here.
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/ 22 November 2002
When the crops failed and there was no work, the villagers of Mundiar began searching for food in the jungle. They didn’t find any. Instead, they found grass. And so for most of the summer, the village’s 60 households got by eating sama — a fodder normally given to cattle.
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/ 22 November 2002
HIV/Aids is the main cause of death among females between the ages of 15 and 39, but the majority of South Africans who died between 1997 and last year did so from unnatural causes.
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/ 22 November 2002
In 1978 Peter Austin was introduced to Jack Butler, a 77-year-old man from the mountainous iron mining district of Maroonah Station, 1 000km north of Perth in western Australia. Butler was the last speaker of the aboriginal language Jiwarli.
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/ 22 November 2002
The South African stock market opened in negative territory on Friday, tugged by gold stocks on a firmer rand and as investors continued to take profits despite a steady bullion price.