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/ 24 September 2004
The Mapungubwe National Park, a world heritage site, was launched by the Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk in Limpopo on Friday. ”Mapungubwe completes our South African heritage triangle… from Robben Island in the south west, to the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park on the east coast…” Van Schalkwyk said.
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/ 24 September 2004
South Africa is ready to become a member of the United Nations Security Council, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Speaking at national Heritage Day celebrations, Mbeki said that although discussions are still going on about the Security Council, the government is preparing to become a permanent member.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=122816">’Stop the erosion of our traditions'</a>
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/ 24 September 2004
The estranged Eastern Cape province has been rocked by another shock move by that province’s government, apparently in an effort to weed out corruption. Late on Thursday night, the entire Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) board and the corporation’s chief executive officer was suspended.
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/ 24 September 2004
A political tussle has broken out within the legal fraternity over the medicine pricing wars. The ongoing legal battle between Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and pharmacists is exposing deep racial and political divisions in the Cape Town legal community.
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/ 24 September 2004
In a study of five transitional democracies, South Africa has fared worst in providing citizens with access to information. And the Presidency was among a handful of institutions that failed to provide any information in response to requests filed under the country’s much-vaunted Promotion of Access to Information Act.
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/ 24 September 2004
The Congress of South African Trade Unions says it is disturbed by the news that Barclays Bank may acquire a major shareholding in Absa. The two banks confirmed on Thursday that they were involved in talks which could see the sale of a 21% stake in Absa to Barclays. Sanlam has a 21% stake — the largest single shareholder.
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/ 24 September 2004
Zimbabwe’s banking crisis continued to mount with the forced closure of another large commercial bank by the Central Bank, the fourth such bank to be shut down this year due to liquidity woes. At the time of its closure Trust Bank owed about Z,4-trillion, an amount equal to the country’s domestic debt.
Zim’s banks are unsafe, says IMF
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/ 24 September 2004
A durable boom in consumer spending and strong salary increases are helping to swell government coffers as economic growth picks up speed. ”Revenue collections are going very well, both in respect of consumer activity and PAYE. We are very bullish about revenues,” South African Revenue Service (Sars) Commissioner Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday.
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/ 24 September 2004
The cash-strapped Eastern Cape government has threatened to withdraw up to R220-million annually from Coega Development Corporation — the national Department of Trade and Industry’s flagship infrastructure development project — in a move which could plunge it into financial crisis.
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/ 24 September 2004
Johannesburg prison inmate Brenda Wardle scored a partial victory this week when the Johannesburg High Court ordered that the parole board hearing her application for early release be reconvened. The provincial commissioner of correctional services and the chairperson of the parole hearing have been ordered to ensure that Wardle is given a fair hearing and an opportunity to make her case.