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SOUTH African hotel and casino operator Sun International Ltd (Sisa) says Meropa, a group in which it has a 45% stake, has won a casino licence in the country’s Northern Province. The company said the R208m casino complex will be the biggest investment to date in the province’s tourism and leisure industry. – Reuters

Justin Arenstein and Michael Matari The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Thursday demanded audio tapes from the SABC following reports that one of its regional Northern Province radio stations encouraged rural resi-dents to boycott the local government elections as part of an ethnic feud. Northern Province chief electoral officer Zwo Nevhutalu said Radio Munghana Lonene […]

Thuli Nhlapo The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in Mpumalanga has deposited tens of thousands of rands in tribal authority bank accounts as part of a scheme to get tribal leaders to help reach voters. The IEC in Mpumalanga confirmed this week that it had given seven traditional leaders R10 000 each for hosting “imbizos” at […]

‘illegal’ Thuli Nhlapo Ignoring the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s (Cosatu) campaign to create and sustain jobs in the textile industry, the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) promotional clothing is imported and believed to have entered the country illegally. Shereno Printers, which won a contract to print 100E000 T-shirts for IEC staffers to wear in […]

Chris Buchanan FOOD Did you know that there are more than 1E500 collectors of militaria in Johannesburg alone? Now these macabre collectors and civilians alike can converge on a funky new meeting spot in Parktown North. The War Store and Vargas Caf is aimed at collectors but is also drawing the attention of rave kids, […]

The first award remembering a black South African journalist should have been named after ‘Mr Drum’ Arthur Maimane A panel of judges is probably already considering who should be the second journalist to be awarded the Nat Nakasa Award for Courageous Black Journalism. The best of luck to whoever deserves to get it; but no […]

SOUTH Africa’s second local government elections should be held on December 2, the Independent Electoral Commission has proposed. Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi is likely to announce a date by the second week of July. The constitution says municipal elections should be held between November 1 and January 31 next year.

The small town of Vermaaklikheid could provide a model for low-cost housing Barry Streek The Cape Town holidaymakers who descended on the southern Cape village of Vermaaklikheid 15 years ago were a mixed blessing for the local community. They created jobs – but they also created a housing shortage, buying sites and farm workers’ cottages […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Monday 11.30am. TRADITIONAL giants Sundowns, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates scored four goals each as they triumphed with varying degrees of comfort in the Castle Premiership at the weekend. Leaders Sundowns defeated fourth-placed Hellenic 4-2 at Loftus Stadium to go six points clear at the top of the standings in the […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki received a copy of the Independent Electoral Commission’s atlas of 1999 election results on Friday. The 228-page atlas is made up of a number of maps detailing the results of the June elections. It will set you back R10000 a piece. At a lunch to mark the launch of the document, Mbeki […]