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/ 25 March 2002

Landless community given 13 farms

Weenen | Monday THE GUJINI community near Weenen, in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands have been given 13 privately-owned farms and about ten thousand hectares of land, Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Monday. A representative for the department, Nana Zenani, said the land claimants were former labour tenants who were forcibly removed after the […]

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/ 25 March 2002

SA WEATHER SERVICE TO COMMISSION R4M RADAR

THE SA Weather Service (SAWS) along with the University of Fort Hare and the Eastern Cape government will commission a R4 million weather radar for the Eastern Cape region on Saturday. The Eastern Cape region – which is frequently affected by severe thunderstorms, hail, floods and tornadoes — currently has no radar coverage. The commissioning […]

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/ 22 March 2002

The devil made us blow it

CRICKET Peter Robinson So that’s what it feels like, then. Just a pity, though, that the last time South Africa beat Australia, back in 1997 at Centurion Park, it was also a dead Test match with the tourists already having won the series. One obvious point to be drawn from this is that South Africa […]

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/ 22 March 2002

The Taiwan connection

South African foreign policy was for sale, if reports on a major political scandal in the East are to be believed Stefaans Brmmer and Jason Blatt The African National Congress accepted at least $10-million in 1994 from a Taiwanese government slush fund set up to promote the interests of that country against those of mainland […]