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/ 3 November 2001
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday ONE of the largest contracts awarded in South Africa’s R60-billion arms deal may be challenged in court by an Italian aeronautics company that lost out to a British contender – after then-defence minister Joe Modise intervened to change the tender evaluation criteria in mid-course. Henk Viljoen, local attorney for the […]
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/ 3 November 2001
A RETIRED colonel is training 6 000 militiamen in Nigeria’s central Taraba State, which is locked in a bloody inter-ethnic feud with neighbouring Benue State, Radio Nigeria reported on Thursday. The radio quoted the commander of the 232 battalion in Yola, Brigadier General D. Yaji, as having told Taraba State Governor Jolly Nyame that that […]
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/ 3 November 2001
Cape Town | Saturday ALL eyes will be on Goudini Spa outside Worcester in the Western Cape on Saturday as premier Gerald Morkel and several of his MECs are expected to attend a meeting to drum up support for his line against the NNP’s national leadership. The balance of power in the ruling NNP/DP coalition […]
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/ 3 November 2001
THE Democratic Alliance has lost its bid to be represented on the City of Johannesburg’s mayoral committee, with a Johannesburg High Court ruling that the committee is legally constituted, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday. The DA brought the case against Johannesburg’s executive mayor Amos Masondo and the minister of provincial and local government. The […]
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/ 3 November 2001
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki’s second book was launched at a glittering ceremony at Parliament on Wednesday night. Called ”Mahube — the Dawning of a Dawn”, it comprises a collection of speeches and pronouncements Mbeki has made over the years. The ceremony, in the historic Old Assembly dining room, was attended by leading figures in the political […]
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/ 2 November 2001
Jimmy Dludlu’s decision to release full albums in alternate years seems to give his work a relaxed, carefully thought out sense of conceptualisation and polished performance, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 2 November 2001
<b>Movie of the week:</b> I found <i>Panic</i> entertaining though unsettling, and thought at first it might be a rather slight piece, but it stayed with me, and its images kept resonating in my head, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 2 November 2001
Santos eliminated Ajax Cape Town to enter the semifinals of the Coca-Cola Cup Ntuthuko Maphumulo It took 90 minutes of regulation play, 29 minutes of extra time and a golden goal by Jean Marc Ithier on Wednesday to secure Santos a berth in the Coca-Cola Cup semifinal against Kaizer Chiefs this weekend. Ajax Cape Town […]
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/ 2 November 2001
I refer to the article by David Macfarlane titled: “We can’t afford silence” (October 26). I don’t understand why leading educationists in South Africa, the Education Department and Kader Asmal don’t just spell out the reason for the 85% drop in qualifying teachers, other than the effect of HIV/Aids. Government policy has caused the closure […]