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/ 11 February 2004
There is likely to be continued competition among the world’s major gold players for the remaining listed quality bullion assets, says world number-four gold miner Gold Fields’s director of international operations John Munro. During the past decade global gold mining has seen consolidation that has left about six major producers/
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/ 11 February 2004
Global resources group Anglo American (Anglo) has embraced black economic empowerment in South Africa, recently appointed Anglo deputy company executive in South Africa Lazarus Zim said an interview. Black empowerment is one of the South African government’s key goals.
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/ 9 February 2004
Sixteen African ministers responsible for mining in their respective countries have launched the African Mining Partnership, with the aim of championing and coordinating mining and mineral-related initiatives under the auspices of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
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/ 9 February 2004
Former Western Cape premier Peter Marais had been a temperamental and often melodramatic witness, and his evidence was contrived and self serving, the Cape High Court heard on Monday. Judge Anton Veldhuizen was hearing closing arguments in the case in which former MEC Freda Adams is suing Marais for R2,3-million for defamation and sexual harassment.
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/ 9 February 2004
South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has pledged to stand by the troubled Caribbean country of Haiti, which has since Thursday been under siege by armed opponents to its president, arguing that the country needs to be assisted in its quest to establish a functioning democratic system.
Bloody uprising spreads in Haiti
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/ 7 February 2004
Doctors protesting in Cape Town on Friday against what they called the declining state of public health care were angered when they were prevented from marching to Parliament, as originally planned. The march was held to protest against, among other things, draft legislation that will prevent them from dispensing medication.
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/ 6 February 2004
The Democratic Alliance has called for Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza to explain chief land claims commissioner Tozi Gwanya’s statement that the government is considering a six-month extension for land claims in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 6 February 2004
Political reactions on Friday streamed in to President Thabo Mbeki’s opening of Parliament and State of the Nation speech in Cape Town. Tony Leon, leader of the official opposition Democratic Alliance, said: ”He [Mbeki] did not address the real failures of crime, unemployment and HIV/Aids.”
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/ 6 February 2004
The South African government will "soon" be inviting proposals for private-sector participation in certain port operations, starting with the Durban Container Terminal, according to Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe, who was speaking at the opening of the second African Intermodal conference in Cape Town.
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/ 5 February 2004
Anant Singh’s DreamWorld consortium has been confirmed as the successful bidder to establish a multimillion-rand film city outside Cape Town. Construction is expected to start in the first quarter of next year, and finish early in 2006. Singh told a media briefing the consortium planned an investment of R400-million.
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/ 5 February 2004
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa has condemned the government’s threat to fire doctors who take part in a protest march after the opening of Parliament on Friday. Holomisa said the government was displaying a complete disregard for the doctors’ democratic rights.
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/ 4 February 2004
South African official opposition leader Tony Leon has suggested that President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech should signal a return to the "rainbow nation" philosophy. Mbeki is to open Parliament on Friday with the annual State of the Nation speech.
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/ 4 February 2004
A third term of office for President Thabo Mbeki has never been posed within the African National Congress, ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe asserted on Wednesday. He was responding to a letter to Mbeki sent by Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon, seeking clarity on the matter.
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/ 3 February 2004
South Africa is to get an initial -million (R275,86-million) from a sum of ,4-billion approved by the US Congress to fight HIV/Aids in 14 countries. The money forms part of an emergency plan for Aids relief for African and Caribbean countries announced by US President George Bush last year.
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/ 3 February 2004
The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) intends recommending the minister of justice closes a loophole used to contest legislation that the AFU uses to assist other countries by freezing proceeds of crime hidden in South Africa. ”In many cases the international cooperation in criminal matters law is fairly ineffective,” said AFU head Willie Hofmeyr.
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/ 3 February 2004
Tension between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress had not been the cause of the IFP’s losing one of its three Cabinet posts, the presidency said on Tuesday. Former arts, culture, science and technology minister Ben Ngubane took up, from Monday, an ambassadorship to Japan.
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/ 3 February 2004
One of the United Kingdom’s fastest-growing insurance companies, the Budget Group, has announced its decision to set up a call centre in Cape Town, in an investment valued at R100-million. The call-centre industry in Cape Town already comprises more than 70 companies.
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/ 2 February 2004
The Sizzlers gay massage parlour massacre, which claimed nine lives last January, was described in the Cape High Court on Monday as ”extraordinary, bizarre and weird”. Prosecutor Anthony Stephen said the fact that the incident claimed nine lives was ”in itself a record”.
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/ 2 February 2004
Former South African president FW de Klerk’s expected endorsement of the pact between his former apartheid party, the New National Party, and the ruling black majority African National Congress has sparked a volley of arguments between opposition leader Tony Leon and the NNP.
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/ 2 February 2004
The vision that drives the New Economic Programme for Africa’s Development is not unrealistic, chairperson of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) steering committee Wiseman Nkuhlu said on Sunday at the opening of the first-ever African ministerial conference on open learning and distance education.
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/ 2 February 2004
South Africa’s Coega industrial development zone and neighbouring deepwater port of Ngqura outside Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape have firm funding commitments totalling about R7,4-billion from the public sector for their ongoing development.
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/ 2 February 2004
President Thabo Mbeki should declare war on crime and announce the return of the death penalty when he delivers his state of the nation address this week, New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Sunday. Mbeki should commit government to ”concrete actions that will improve the lives of our people”.
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/ 30 January 2004
The Inkatha Freedom Party, which shares the provincial government in KwaZulu-Natal with the ruling African National Congress, said on Friday it was sorry about an incident in which South African President Thabo Mbeki’s motorcade was hindered by a number of its supporters.
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/ 30 January 2004
The Democratic Alliance on Friday called for less state intervention in the mining sector, saying it should be allowed to get on with business without government interference. DA spokesperson Ian Davidson said the proposed royalty tax on mining operations in the draft Mining Royalties Bill should be opposed.
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/ 30 January 2004
The Athens 2004 Olympic torch relay brings for the first time the Olympic flame to the streets of Cape Town in June this year. Beginning in early June, the Olympic flame will embark on a 21st-century-style tour that circles the earth. More than 3Â 600 torch bearers will play a part in carrying the flame.
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/ 29 January 2004
South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Alec Erwin, has been tipped by an influential American journal as the favourite candidate for the director general’s post at the World Trade Organisation, which becomes vacant in September 2005. Erwin’s ministry has poured cold water on the speculation.
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/ 29 January 2004
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has moved to swiftly condemn the actions of what it said were opposition Inkatha Freedom Party supporters who tried to block South African President Thabo Mbeki’s entrance to an imbizo event in the troubled Tugela Ferry in KwaZulu-Natal earlier on Thursday.
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/ 28 January 2004
Western Cape education authorities were hard at work on Wednesday trying to avert an impending education crisis in the province. Meanwhile, pupils, parents and organisations marched in various areas to highlight their unhappiness with the status quo.
Cape parents protest
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/ 28 January 2004
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa says he is ”absolutely embarrassed” about a leopard that had to be put down after being injured in a trap on his family’s farm in the Western Cape. According to reports, the leopard was caught in a gin trap set by workers on Monday.
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/ 28 January 2004
South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance is "fuelling the fires of racism using the fig leaf of a strong opposition", the New National Party argued on Wednesday. In a raging set of pre-election volleys — the NNP and the DA have been at each other’s throats all week
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/ 28 January 2004
Inkatha Freedom Party leader and Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi has played down a meeting held with the ruling African National Congress this week, describing it as having "no bearing" on the coming elections.
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