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/ 7 February 2001
SOUTH Africa’s white-dominated newspapers display “rank hostility” toward the government, a minister close to President Thabo Mbeki has charged in a speech to industry leaders. The ruling African National Congress (ANC), in a virtually unique situation among the democracies, has no representation in the mass media, Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad told the advisory […]
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/ 7 February 2001
SENEGALESE authorities are throwing cars and tubs into their coastal waters to create an artificial reef that will hopefully boost the fish population. Some 40 old vehicles and tubs piled up along Dakar streets and at the port were recently dropped into the water off the capital. Authorities hope the makeshift reef will draw fish […]
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/ 7 February 2001
MPUMALANGA police who allegedly set dogs on schoolchildren at an inter-school athletics meeting in Secunda apparently ignored regulations that police dogs only be used during violent crimes. Police are also accused of firing live ammunition at the stadium when they arrested seven children for drinking alcohol in public. Two children who were bitten by Secunda […]
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/ 7 February 2001
NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma has decided to discontinue the use of official Mercedes Benz limousines for his transport, saying he would now use Chevrolets. The Mercedes Benz limousines will only be used for transporting visiting dignitaries and Heads of State. “I believe that the savings that all of us will collectively make through cost-cutting measures […]
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/ 7 February 2001
CUBAN President Fidel Castro has met with South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation between the two countries. Zuma and Cuban officials signed a preliminary accord setting up a joint Cuban-South African commission that will be formalised during SA president Thabo Mbeki’s visit to Cuba in March. One of the […]
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/ 7 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday SOUTH African National Parks has resumed a programme to cull exotic Himalayan mountain goats (tahrs) on Table Mountain in defiance of a direct request by the office of the public protector, Selby Baqwa. Baqwa’s office said the parks board had acted despite a direct request that any such decision […]
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/ 7 February 2001
AIDS in South Africa – which claimed about 200_000 lives in 2000 – and urbanisation have nearly halved the country?s growth rate between 1996 and 2006, according to a new report. The combination of the two factors reduced annual population growth to about 1.35%, said Carl van Aardt of the Bureau of Market Research. Aids […]
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/ 7 February 2001
AGRICULTURAL unions and South African opposition parties have slammed Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana?s warning to farmers who abuse their workers that they must “adapt or die” as hate speech which could spark more rural killings. Mdladlana made the remark – shown on SABC television – while visiting farms in the Northern Cape to inspect labour […]
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/ 7 February 2001
GIANT banking group Absa has denied that it owes millions of rands in taxes relating to the Reserve Bank’s controversial R1,5bn lifeboat to Bankorp in 1990. Johannesburg lawyer Peter Soller said that by failing to recover the R1bn in tax owed from Absa, Sars was discriminating against other taxpayers. If necessary, he would challenge this […]
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/ 7 February 2001
FIVE death row inmates found guilty of a wave of killings between 1993 and 1995 were taken to separate locations and executed this week, Guinea’s Justice Minister Abou Camara said. The executions of the individuals, considered ”big bandits” for their involvement in 20 murders committed in Conakry, were carried out in five Guinean cities. The […]