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Deputy President Jacob Zuma could have been involved in some ”peripheries” in the adjudication of South Africa’s arms deal, the Durban High Court heard on Friday. This emerged during the cross-examination of KMPG forensic auditor Johan van der Walt in the fraud and corruption trial of Durban businessman Schabir Shaik.
Court sees Shaik-Zuma loan agreement
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Beijing hopes the smelly reputation of its public restrooms will be, well, flushed down the toilet soon. City officials will use the 2004 World Toilet Summit, starting on November 17, to showcase efforts to transform the capital’s lavatories from foul to fragrant, from crude to cultured.
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Retail clothing group Truworths has rejected as false and misleading claims made by members of the South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) that it does not support local procurement and manufacturing. Truworths revealed that it is one of the biggest supporters of the country’s clothing and textile sector.
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A letter from an Italian judge, which is apparently strongly critical of the way a South African magistrate has been dealing with the Palazzolo hearings, was handed in to the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday. The court is overseeing the questioning of witnesses whose testimony will be used in alleged Mafioso’s Vito Palazzolo’s trial in absentia in Italy.
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The three levels of government should work together to ensure better coordination in the formulation and implementation of policies, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. The president was speaking in Empangeni in KwaZulu-Natal at a sitting of the National Council of Provinces .
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Gauteng’s minister for community safety, Firoz Cachalia, expressed anger and shock at the killing of a police officer at a roadblock in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”It is very saddening to see these kinds of vicious attacks on members who are dedicated to serving their communities,” he said on Friday.
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There is no need to panic about drought — unless the rain stays away for another two months, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said in Pretoria on Friday. The department is reviewing the state of the Vaal River system to see if water restrictions in Gauteng — now South Africa’s driest province — will be necessary.
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They are affectionately called the Oscars of the African information and communication technology (ICT) world. On Saturday night at the Dome in Johannesburg, the most outstanding African ICT companies, people and projects will be honoured at the African ICT Achievers Awards 2004.
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A hasty imposition or deployment of a peacekeeping force to war-ravaged Somalia could ignite renewed conflict, Alejandro Bendana, team leader of the European Union-backed Somalia Strategic Demilitarisation Unit, warned on Thursday. "This is not Iraq," Bendana told journalists at the start of a two-day Somalia planning meeting.
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"My inspiration for this novel came from reading TRC transcripts — the powerful, shocking, sometimes deeply tragic testimonies of ordinary South Africans." Anthony Egan speaks to Jonty Driver, exiled South African poet and novelist, about his latest book.