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/ 9 February 2007
A Markinor poll of 3Â 500 South Africans has found that nearly three out of every four South Africans are happy with President Thabo Mbeki’s performance and more than three out of five agreed that he could be trusted to do what was best for South Africa.
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/ 9 February 2007
The City of Cape Town is not alone in attempts to bring down the costs of its new 2010 World Cup stadium, according to the local organising committee, but it is definitely the most successful. Five new stadiums are to be built and five upgraded for 2010.
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/ 8 February 2007
The South African Aids Vaccine Initiative, which is supported by power parastatal Eskom and the South African government, announced on Thursday the start of the first large-scale test of a concept HIV vaccine — which will involve 3Â 000 participants in South Africa.
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/ 7 February 2007
About 20 of the 604 women who participated in microbicide clinical trials have tested HIV-positive, the South African Medical Research Council said on Wednesday. The health minister has requested an investigation by the research ethics council following concerns about the HIV status of the participants.
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/ 6 February 2007
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has requested an investigation by the research ethics council following concerns about the health of participants in microbicide clinical trials. In a statement released on Tuesday, Tshabalala-Msimang said she had met with researchers following ”disturbing news” about preliminary results of a study conducted in KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 6 February 2007
The Durban University of Technology and the University of KwaZulu-Natal faced a second day of student boycotts and strikes on Tuesday. The student representative council called for the strike, claiming that management had reneged on a deal to release all 2006 exam results.
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/ 5 February 2007
The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government on Monday joined the South African Tourism Services Association in welcoming the conviction and sentencing of the first of the men involved in the David Rattray murder. The sentence given to the man fitted the crime, said KwaZulu-Natal provincial minister of arts and culture Weziwe Thusi.
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/ 5 February 2007
A South African convicted of the murder of Anglo-Zulu war expert David Rattray was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison. Rattray, a friend of Britain’s Prince Charles and famous for his lively oral accounts of fighting between British troops and Zulu warriors in the 19th century, was shot dead on January 26.
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/ 5 February 2007
Almost 35% of the total South African personal income of R1,232-billion accrued to Gauteng in 2006, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 16,3% and the Western Cape with 14,7%, a new report showed on Monday. Gauteng led the pack despite the 2005 boundary changes that favoured the Northern Cape.
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/ 1 February 2007
Most Windows users will welcome the introduction of the new operating system, Vista.
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/ 1 February 2007
South Africa’s people are crying out to the nation’s leaders to do ”whatever it takes” to put an end to crime, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said at the funeral of renowned historian David Rattray on Thursday. A six-man gang shot Rattray three times on Friday night in a hold-up at his Fugitive’s Drift lodge.
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/ 31 January 2007
Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of historian David Rattray. While police have not officially confirmed the arrests, sources said that the arrests had taken place and more were expected shortly. Rattray was murdered last Friday at his at his Fugitive’s Drift Lodge home.
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/ 30 January 2007
Pleas for his resignation by protesters singing insults at the trial of African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma were his ”worst moment” in three years as spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority, Makhosini Nkosi said on Tuesday. The attacks became personal and worrying when people started saying ”nasty things” to his family, he said.
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/ 30 January 2007
The tussle over who has the right to live on and farm some of South Africa’s most fertile soil has taken on an added tension as the government presses ahead with land reforms intended to right past wrongs. But even supporters say the reform is failing, with just 4% of white-owned land transferred so far.
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/ 29 January 2007
The funeral of murdered historian David Rattray, scheduled for Thursday at Michaelhouse school, is being planned to accommodate 1 000 people. Rattray, an Anglo-Zulu War expert and a pioneer of ”raconteur tourism”, was murdered at his home in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 29 January 2007
African governments have warned South Africa that growing corruption, rampant violent crime and xenophobia are undermining confidence in the continent’s largest economy and threaten the stability of post-apartheid democracy. The African Union was expected to hand a report on good governance to President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday night that contains wide-ranging criticisms.
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/ 29 January 2007
On August 2 last year, the University of KwaZulu-Natal passed its language policy and plan through the university senate. The policy advocates additive bilingualism in English and isiZulu, and supports multilingualism more broadly with respect to Afrikaans, the Indian heritage languages, and languages of strategic importance in Africa and globally.
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/ 28 January 2007
The uproar at the murder of KwaZulu-Natal battlefields historian David Rattray continued into Sunday, with leading businessmen expressing their deep concern at crime in South Africa. The legendary Rattray was attacked and killed at his lodge at Rorke’s Drift on Friday evening. He was instrumental in putting the province’s battlefields on the international tourism map.
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/ 27 January 2007
The murder of tourism personality and Anglo-Zulu war pundit David Rattray has shocked leaders in the South African tourism industry. South African Tourism Services Association CEO Michael Tatalias said on Saturday that Rattray had been one of South Africa’s greatest ambassadors.
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/ 27 January 2007
Legendary tourism personality and Anglo-Zulu War expert David Rattray was attacked and killed at his lodge at Rorke’s Drift on Juanuray 26, KwaZulu-Natal police said. His killer entered his house and fired a single shot before being ordered to re-enter the building to fire another two rounds, according to a source close to the scene.
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/ 25 January 2007
No dates have yet been set for the scrapping of taxis in Gauteng, Transport Department spokesperson Sam Monareng said on Thursday. Dates have also yet to be set for the destruction of old vehicles in the North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga, he said. All Monareng could indicate was that dates would be announced ”soon”.
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/ 22 January 2007
The KwaZulu-Natal education authority on Monday warned principals at ”no-fee” schools to stop requesting fees from parents in exchange for their children’s reports. Education provincial minister Ina Cronje said her department has been inundated with calls from parents complaining about it.
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/ 22 January 2007
The Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons had by Monday afternoon not received any complaints of preferential treatment for convicted businessman Schabir Shaik, its head, Judge Nathan Erasmus, said. ”I have not received any official complaints. I cannot be led by speculation by the media,” he said on Monday afternoon.
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/ 22 January 2007
South Africa should forcibly isolate patients infected with a highly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis to stop the disease from spreading on the HIV/Aids-hit continent. The outbreak of extreme drug resistant tuberculosis, which has killed at least 74 people in the last several months, may force authorities to override patients’ personal rights.
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/ 22 January 2007
The swashbuckling colonial novelist remains a persistent feature of many books on Africa. Events are not merely reported, but interpreted through the incredulous eyes of our intrepid ”white man in Africa”. Curiously, this retrograde genre remains extremely popular in South Africa.
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/ 21 January 2007
The KwaZulu-Natal minister for education, Ina Cronje, expressed concern on Sunday over the closure of at least four farm schools in the province. She said her department met on Saturday with the agriculture department’s provincial minister, Mtholephi Mthimkhulu and the members of Congress of South Africa Trade Unions to discuss the farm schools’ problems.
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/ 19 January 2007
KwaZulu-Natal education minister Ina Cronje rushed to Mahlabatini Primary School in the Ulundi district on Friday after hearing that the floor of an old toilet block had caved in while nine boys were inside, her department said. The boys, aged between nine and 12, had to be freed from the rubble by an excavating machine.
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/ 18 January 2007
The Independent Democrats (ID) named its top team for the City of Cape Town after it opted this week to be part of the seven-party coalition, led by the Democratic Alliance (DA), which runs the city. At a press conference at Parliament on Thursday, it was announced that the party’s candidate for deputy mayor, to serve as number two to DA mayor Helen Zille, is Charlotte Williams.
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/ 18 January 2007
The lights went out in several parts of South Africa on Thursday morning as Eskom carried out load-shedding as its capacity was stretched by a surprise surge in consumption. Power plants failed, including Koeberg nuclear power station’s unit one, when the turbine tripped at 2.18am. ”There is a national alert,” said Eskom spokesperson Tony Stott.
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/ 17 January 2007
Holiday season traffic deaths and accidents dropped by less than 5% compared with a year ago, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Wednesday. Radebe issued his report on the December 1 to January 10 holiday season traffic at Atteridgeville in Gauteng. The number of fatal accidents dropped by 59 from 1 428 to 1 369 compared with the same time a year ago.
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/ 17 January 2007
The number of injuries in the older age groups of schoolboy rugby is on the increase and is a major cause for concern, says former Springbok captain Morne du Plessis. Addressing the 29th Discovery SharkSmart Coaching Conference last week, Du Plessis explained that the age group most at risk is boys 19 years and younger.
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/ 16 January 2007
Several publications on Tuesday expressed fears that the current restructuring of the South African Police Service (SAPS) will severely limit the media’s ability to access information. Up until the restructuring started, media outlets approached designated police officers at area level. However, media organisations have now been told to contact designated officers at a provincial level.