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/ 27 November 2003
Former Western Cape provincial minister of environment David Malatsi told developers he was prepared to approve their projects without seeing the environmental impact assessments required by law, the George Regional Court heard on Thursday.
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/ 25 November 2003
Former Western Cape environment and development MEC David Malatsi once told a meeting that he was a black person, not a ”greenie”, and that his people did not eat fynbos, the regional court in George heard on Tuesday.
Let the grilling begin
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/ 24 November 2003
A provincial official faced probing cross-examination on Monday on why he complied with a superior’s instruction to draft an approval of the proposal for the Roodefontein development when he himself felt it should be rejected.
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/ 21 November 2003
Tensions in the Roodefontein corruption trial boiled over on Friday when, in a heated exchange, Scorpions prosecutor Bruce Morrison ordered former Western Cape premier Peter Marais to behave in court.
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/ 19 November 2003
The professional team driving the Roodefontein development ”set up” an official of the Western Cape’s environment and planning department — Dr Steve du Toit, who dealt with the development — to expose his personal interest in the matter, the regional court in George heard on Wednesday.
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/ 18 November 2003
Former Western Cape premier Peter Marais intervened directly to ensure provincial environment officials made a decision on the Roodefontein golf estate development, the regional court in George heard on Tuesday. Marais and David Malatsi are accused of being bribed to smooth the way for approval of the project.
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/ 18 November 2003
The state does not intend to call Italian count Riccardo Agusta as a witness in the corruption trial of former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and David Malatsi. Agusta paid a R1-million fine after conceding that he ”unlawfully and corruptly” gave a R400 000 donation through the two men to the New National Party.
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/ 17 November 2003
Former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and his co-accused David Malatsi on Monday pleaded not guilty to corruption charges related to the Roodefontein golf development. In court, Marais and Malatsi were seated in specially placed soft chairs behind their advocates, and not in the hard wooden dock.
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/ 17 November 2003
As some of the world’s top golfers gather in George for the prestigious President’s Cup, former Western Cape premier Peter Marais might be forgiven for thinking the game is more trouble than it’s worth. He and his one-time environment and development MEC David Malatsi go on trial in this southern Cape town on Monday on charges of corruption.
Big business was ”broadly satisfied” with the government’s fiscal and monetary policies, as well as its macro-economic policy and micro-economic programmes.
Doctors at the scene of a plane crash near George on Saturday morning have confirmed that former cricket captain Hansie Cronje is among the three passengers dead.
The wreckage of the aircraft in which former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje died will form part of a memorial for Cronje, businessman Leon Dorfling said in George on Tuesday.
Investigators on Sunday recovered the flight data recorder of the aircraft which crashed into rugged mountains near George on Saturday, killing former cricket skipper Hansie Cronje, its pilot and co-pilot.