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/ 27 February 2004
The Eastern Cape’s R31-billion budget was welcomed on Thursday by opposition parties and interest groups except the Democratic Alliance, which expressed some reservations about certain issues.
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/ 4 February 2004
Not everybody who is HIV-positive will get anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) from the state, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Tuesday. Speaking at the East London city hall, Tshabalala-Msimang said patients with a CD4 cell count below 200 will be the focus of the initial stages of the planned roll-out of ARVs.
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/ 14 January 2004
The Swiss parent company of Nestle South Africa has approved a R64-million upgrade of its Wilsonia plant in East London, it was reported on Tuesday. Nestle SA MD Alfred Kaelin said the upgrade will enhance the facility’s production capability to export to 19 south-east African countries and the Middle East.
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/ 3 November 2003
Buffalo City Municipality is set to change racially offensive names of zones in its massive Mdantsane township. The sections of Mdantsane are currently numbered from NU1 to NU17. ”The term NU 1 to NU 17 stands for native unit and is offensive,” said mayor Sindisile Maclean at the unveiling of the Mdantsane Urban Renewal Programme.
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/ 15 October 2003
Thousands of Eastern Cape taxi drivers say they will support anything that will halt the government’s taxi recapitalisation programme because they still don’t understand it. Nearly four years after the government announced its plan to upgrade the ageing taxi fleet, provincial taxi bodies still complain that they have been excluded from all critical stages of its development.
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/ 19 September 2003
A special report by the provincial auditor general has highlighted financial mismanagement in most of the Eastern Cape’s municipalities. The shocking facts in the report include that 21 local authorities have not provided financial statements for two or more years.
South Africa’s anticipated crisis of two-million Aids orphans by 2015 could be halved if the government sticks to its promise to rollout anti-Aids drugs, according to Department of Social Development projections.
Almost half the patients tested recently for HIV/Aids at Frere Hospital in East London and 35% of patients in the tuberculosis ward at Umtata General hospital were shown to be HIV-positive.
Initiate deaths have risen more than 100% since laws were put in place two years ago to curb the deaths and injuries. Since 1998 a total of 129 initiates have died as a result of botched circumcisions in the Eastern Cape.
Testing young girls for virginity is a violation of human rights and the right to bodily integrity, Eastern Cape women’s and children’s organisations said on Wednesday.
East London might be small, but has a lot of bluster. The city was officially named South Africa’s least calm city on Wednesday, as it always has wind blowing even if its residents cannot feel it.
Da Gama Textiles is to spearhead a more than R200-million investment and empowerment project to develop the cotton industry in the Eastern Cape, the leading South African textile group said on Sunday.
An East London daily newspaper says it has tracked down what appears to be the real family of the teenager in the centre of a saga that has caught the imagination of the entire country.
To support its race for the new C-class Mercedes-Benz contract, DaimlerChrysler South Africa required that the provincial government ensured stability in the province, said DCSA’s Stephan Massner.
The wife of Cuban writer Raul Rivero has written an impassioned letter from Havana pleading with Nelson Mandela to facilitate leniency for her husband who recently began a 20-year sentence in Cuba for treason and subversion.
Provincial legislature offices in Bisho were the first ”black-out” casualties following Buffalo City’s threat that it would disconnect services to government offices that had failed to pay their municipal bills.
Piles of ash and plastic bags containing ash and bone fragments that could be the remains of between 700 and 800 people were discovered on a beach in East London over the weekend, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.
The case against former President Nelson Mandela’s praise singer Zolani Mkiva for alleged tax evasion was postponed in the East London Regional Court on Tuesday.
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/ 14 February 2003
Carmaker DaimlerChrysler South Africa has approved a voluntary retirement package deal for 170 of its 3 800 employees, the company said on Thursday.
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/ 10 February 2003
An 82-year-old Grahamstown woman died in hospital on Sunday after she was brutally assaulted and allegedly gang-raped by three men on Thursday.
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/ 4 February 2003
A 19-year-old Cape Town motorist driving a BMW M3 was trapped at 215km/h on the N9 near Aberdeen on Monday, provincial traffic representative Tsepho Machaea said.
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/ 3 February 2003
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa urged the Eastern Cape government on Monday to act against the mayor of the OR Tambo district municipality, whom he accused of corruption.
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/ 23 January 2003
The National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, launched a multi-sectoral anti-corruption task team for the Eastern Cape at a ceremony in East London on Thursday.
Fraud-related cases in the Eastern Cape could soon be dealt with speedily after the Scorpions announced the establishment of a special corruption court in King William’s Town.
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/ 14 December 2002
Thirteen of 73 prisoners who escaped from the Bizana prison in the Eastern Cape on Friday have been recaptured, the national Department of Correctional Services said.
Eastern Cape MEC, Enoch Godongwana, was fined R8 000, or 200 days in jail on Tuesday for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The leadership of the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) was confident on Thursday that two days of behind-closed-doors discussions in East London this week would help to refocus the embattled organisation.
POLICE believe that Satanism is linked to the discovery of the body of a man found floating in a swimming pool.
The men of the SS Mendi are coming home, albeit in a symbolic and spiritual way. A commemorative programme honouring the 600 African men who died with the sinking of the SS Mendi will be held this weekend just outside Libode in Pondoland.
The East London High Court has found the Ncamazana brothers guilty of murder, SABC news reported on Wednesday. Dumisani Ncamazana, a pardoned Apla cadre, was found guilty of the murder and armed robbery of Martin Whitaker.
In a surprise move, the state closed its case against the Ncamazana brothers in East London on Wednesday after calling only 14 of 50 scheduled witnesses.
Two oxen being loaded for export at East London’s harbour on Monday night gave officials the run around when they escaped.