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/ 21 October 2003
The name Unisa is to remain, a university is to be named after former president Nelson Mandela, and the term technikon is to disappear, Minister of Education Kader Asmal said on Tuesday. He was announcing the new names of higher education institutions that are to merge in terms of a plan approved by the Cabinet last year.
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/ 20 October 2003
The icy cold weather gripping the country’s northern provinces is expected to last at least until Tuesday. At the same time, conditions which could lead to the development and spread of runaway veld fires were expected over the Cape Peninsula, the SAWS said.
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/ 18 October 2003
Statistics by the Department of Correctional Services indicate that of the country’s provinces Kwazulu-Natal, with 957, has the highest number of juveniles incarcerated. This was followed by the Western Cape, with 810 children, and Gauteng with 719 children.
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/ 14 October 2003
The SA Transport and Allied Workers Union and Airports Company of South Africa reached a deadlock at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration Gauteng on Friday. In a statement Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said the only area of dispute was the basic wage increase.
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/ 11 October 2003
The South African labour market is flexible as it is the eighth least regulated of 130 nations surveyed by the World Bank, says Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana. Mdladlana said businesses in South Africa faced fewer labour regulations than their counterparts in Ireland, Switzerland or Australia.
The South African Department of Public Works is to spend millions of rands this year to upgrade various museums around the country, including the renovation of the Kruger House museum in central Pretoria. More than R20-million is also to be spent on the harbour at the Robben Island museum complex.
Vaal Rand police have identified 10 sports journalists and the driver involved in an accident on the R59 outside Alberton on Saturday that claimed the lives of six reporters. Fourteen journalists and a driver were returning after covering the Masakhane games in Vanderbijlpark.
Crash claims lives of six journalists
The number of juveniles in SA prisons has increased from 4 093 in 2002 to 4 449 this year, according to the Department of Correctional Service’s annual report. This figure includes 221 14-year olds. The report, presented in Parliament on Monday said there are currently 4 449 sentenced and unsentenced children in prisons.
Two sports journalists are still in a serious condition and one is stable following an accident on the R59 outside Alberton on Saturday that claimed the lives of six reporters. Fourteen journalists and a driver were returning after covering the Masakhane games in Vanderbijlpark.
Has Mbeki changed his mind; is his government’s embrace of conventional Aids science wholehearted; and does he support the methods of prevention, treatment and care of Aids that the rest of the world now recognises as optimal? Mbeki will trip up again and again on the Aids issue because the answer to each of the above is no, no and no again — though it shouldn’t be.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has announced it is throwing its full weight behind the campaign to make sure that every eligible voter is registered to vote in next year’s national and provincial elections. Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal each have more than two million people that still need to register.
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/ 30 September 2003
The country’s only independent website providing crime statistics nationally celebrates its one-month birthday on Wednesday — but critics wonder about its validity and accessibility to those most affected by crime. About 80% of the website’s respondents are from the Gauteng region.
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/ 30 September 2003
The South African national Department of Public Works is to spen a total of nearly two billion rand on its building programme in the nine provinces during the 2003/04 financial year. Nearly half of this money — a total of R900-million — will be spent on prisons.
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/ 26 September 2003
Artist Aidan Walsh has documented his travels to SA’s deserted spots in a series of paintings. Rajendra Chetty talks to the artist about the originating ideas for his Karoo journey and the social commentary behind his depiction of stark landscapes.
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/ 25 September 2003
The Gauteng health department has issued an emergency measles alert to the passengers and crew of a flight that landed in Johannesburg after a passenger contracted measles. Twenty-four cases of measles have been confirmed in Gauteng since the start of the year, compared with five cases for the whole of 2002.
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/ 23 September 2003
About 5,3-million people in South Africa, or 31,2% of those economically active, were officially unemployed in March this year, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. The corresponding figures for September and March last year, which Stats South Africa provided earlier, were 30,5% and 29,4% respectively.
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/ 23 September 2003
An African National Congress Women’s League delegation is departing for Nigeria as part of the organisation’s campaign to save Amina Lawal, the Nigerian citizen facing death by stoning for having a baby outside wedlock. A Southern Africa Development Community women’s delegation would join the league in Nigeria.
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/ 23 September 2003
Opposition parties have by and large criticised the latest edition of the police’s crime statistics, saying they were old, drew the wrong conclusions and lacked credibility. Democratic Alliance chief whip and safety spokesperson Douglas Gibson described the figures as old and outdated.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20872">We’re winning the crime war, say police</a>
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/ 22 September 2003
The police has made great strides in reducing serious crime levels, although certain categories of crime have increased, says National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Since 1994, murder has now dropped by 29,5% and there is a decrease in high profile cases of aggravated robbery.
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/ 11 September 2003
Every traveller has a special place, somewhere he or she keeps going back to and can never get enough of. For me that place has always been the Kruger National Park. And although I’ve stayed in a number of camps, and loved most of them, I have finally found my ”home” in the Kruger, where I could happily spend eternity.
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/ 11 September 2003
Often driven through but rarely explored, Limpopo has been called South Africa’s forgotten province. Or perhaps it’s one of our best kept secrets? This week we trek north in our series on the attractions of the nine provinces.
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/ 9 September 2003
The New National Party has renewed its call for an amnesty for people to hand in illegal firearms, saying ”rather sooner than later”. Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula has said it remained the government’s intention to reduce the number of firearms in the country, and to institute efficient regulations regarding gun ownership.
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/ 5 September 2003
The Scorpions seized assets from nine premises in early morning raids throughout South Africa on Wednesday, the investigative unit reported.
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/ 3 September 2003
There were 276 022 South Africans ”on the run” from the police at the end of April this year, according to figures provided by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
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/ 1 September 2003
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is to release the findings of a two-year long investigation into human rights conditions on farms.
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/ 1 September 2003
The government’s claim that South Africa was not a crime capital and compared favourably with the rest of the world is refuted by United States crime figures, says official opposition chief whip Douglas Gibson.
Zuma’s pals in the press, Saddam’s lesser known offspring, the cow cops of India and Bristow-Bovey’s new book cover. Oom Krisjan puts that in his pipe and smokes it.
I have a statement to make — Limpopo is lovely. And now, a sad admission — I have only just completed my first proper visit, after 12 years of living in South Africa. Sharon van Wyk appeals to adventurous holidaymakers to try it out for themselves.
The wind whipped at my exposed ears as I tried to focus on the diminutive dynamo that is SA Tourism CEO Cheryl Carolus. All around me fellow hacks and travel fundis shivered miserably in the bitter Jo’burg morning. Welcome to the launch of Tourism Month and the concrete cold of SA Tourism’s head office in Illovo.
The Minister of Social Development Dr Zola Skweyiya has expressed shock and concern about the disappearance of a teenager from a government place of safety 24 days ago. The teeenager had apparently been forced to have sex with a dog.
The Gauteng safety and liaison department is investigating more than 736 cases of corruption involving members of the SA Police Service, MEC Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday.
Like a slumbering giant waking up to its potential, the North West province is aggressively marketing itself as a premier tourist destination for jaded domestic travellers and as a prime location for overseas tourists.