South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has now officially beaten the Democratic Alliance (DA) in raiding the smaller parties during the two-week defection period allowing politicians to cross the floor.
Eight people, including former President Nelson Mandela’s official praise singer, a police officer and a traditional leader, were arrested on Thursday for allegedly defrauding the Eastern Cape government.
Almost two years ago, then ANC Chief Whip Tony Yengeni stood defiant before his peers in the National Assembly and protested his innocence, but on Wednesday he quit Parliament in disgrace.
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni’s decision to quit Parliament was the correct action to take, the ANC said on Wednesday.
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/ 28 February 2003
Seven Eastern Cape government officials and a policeman appeared in Umtata and East London courts on Thursday after they were arrested in connection with fraud, theft and corruption.
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/ 27 February 2003
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s fraud and theft trial was placed on hold once again on Thursday because her co-accused, Addy Moolman, had not yet recovered from injuries sustained in a car crash.
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/ 17 February 2003
A top Eastern Cape legal expert has been appointed as chairman of a committee to oversee the environmental impact of the Coega Industrial Development Zone near Port Elizabeth, the National Ports Authority announced on Monday.
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/ 17 February 2003
Having seen far too many of his friends die of Aids, Oom Krisjan is a fervent supporter of efforts to persuade the government to ease access to anti-retrovirals. With no blasphemy intended, here is a modification of the Lord’s Prayer, adapted to our current crisis…
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/ 12 February 2003
United States Ambassador Cameron Hume on Tuesday criticised the South African government’s inability to spend available resources on HIV/Aids and questioned whether it would utilise the roughly R1,7-billion his government had earmarked to combat the disease in 2004.
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/ 4 February 2003
The University of Transkei has advertised about 44 academic and eight administrative posts it intends filling despite the recent announcement by Education Minister Kader Asmal that the university must merge with Border and Eastern Cape technikons.
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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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/ 27 January 2003
Parliament’s public accounts committee (Scopa) began 2002 deeply divided and maligned over the multi-billion rand arms deal, but new chairman Francois Beukman is now confident Scopa is back on track for 2003.
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/ 27 January 2003
Parliament’s public accounts committee (Scopa) began 2002 deeply divided and maligned over the multi-billion rand arms deal, but new chairman Francois Beukman is now confident Scopa is back on track for 2003.
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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.
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/ 17 January 2003
Dumisani Makhaye must be feeling that sometimes his words can come back to haunt him. The ANC NEC member has been going around telling disgruntled Eastern Cape ANC members to accept the national leadership’s decision to dissolve the provincial structures.
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/ 16 January 2003
Ruling African National Congress deputy secretary-general Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele today slammed ”self- appointed” politicians who were resisting resettlement of people in overcrowded urban areas.
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/ 13 January 2003
A 10-year-old boy was arrested after a five-month-old baby was raped at Elliotdale outside Umtata in the Eastern Cape on Friday, police said on Sunday.
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.
While the road death toll since December 1 mounted to 1 236 by Monday, the Democratic Alliance demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Dullah Omar, or his removal from office.
How many of the year’s events can you remember?<br>
1 Who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature?<br>
2 Which KwaZulu-Natal mayor said Cape Town could "keep [the] moffies and gays"?
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
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/ 23 December 2002
A Christmas party organised by Nelson Mandela and Oprah Winfrey for 15 000 South African children descended into chaos yesterday when a stampede for food and gifts resulted in several injuries.
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/ 17 December 2002
Police and correctional services personnel are still searching for 34 prisoners, who have managed to evade a security dragnet since a mass escape from the Bizana prison in the Eastern Cape on Friday.
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/ 14 December 2002
Government’s failure to recognise the powers and function of traditional leaders is causing African languages and heritage to face extinction, National House of Traditional Leaders chairman Inkosi Mpiyezintombi Mzimela said on Saturday.
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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.
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/ 14 December 2002
A total of 73 prisoners escaped from the prison in Bizana in the Eastern Cape on Friday. Provincial correctional services commissioner Raphepheng Mataka told Sapa police had rearrested seven of the escapees.
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/ 13 December 2002
The Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) eighth national congress which will decide the leadership of the party for the next three years, starts in Umtata in the Eastern Cape on Friday.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
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/ 8 November 2002
The seventh annual Southern African International Film and Television Market (Sithengi) will this year, for the first time, hold a children’s festival, writes Maria Kurian.
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/ 1 November 2002
Kgafela oa Magogodi sees Alexandra through new eyes — those of a tourist.
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/ 1 November 2002
The hectic round of party conferences is in full swing, with branch committees going out on a limb, as it were, to prove they have the requisite number of members to justify their continued existence.
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/ 18 October 2002
One might think from the hullabaloo around the maize deal announced by the government last week that the problems of rising staple food prices have been solved at a stroke. This is very far from true — indeed some commentators see the announcement as little more than a public relations exercise.