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/ 7 December 2004
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The Durban High Court refused on Tuesday a state application for a South African Revenue Service (Sars) official to testify in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial. Rob Reid, who has already supplied the state with an affidavit, will no longer go into the witness box.
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/ 7 December 2004
Moeketsi Mosola (34) is the new CEO of South African Tourism. Be it nature, culture or sports, the sector is booming and ever-evolving.
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/ 6 December 2004
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The Durban High Court has been left to decide whether Schabir Shaik’s tax returns can be used against him in his trial for alleged fraud and corruption. The state already has in its possession an affidavit from Rob Reid, an employee at the South African Revenue Service’s office in Durban.
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/ 4 December 2004
Collisions on South Africa’s roads on the first weekend of the festive season have claimed the lives of at least six adults and a five-month-old baby and left 20 people injured. A woman travelling in a minibus taxi was killed when it was hit from behind by a truck on the Clairwood off-ramp on the M4 south, near Durban, at 9am on Saturday, said KwaZulu-Natal traffic spokesperson, Colin Govender.
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/ 3 December 2004
Short-term outlooks are relatively favourable with the best chance for good rainfalls over the period December 6 to December 8, 2004 in South Africa’s maize belt, consultant Enviro Vision said in a statement said on Thursday. Regarding the size of the coming 2004/05 commercial maize crop, Enviro Vision put the crop at about 10 million tonnes, from the previous season’s 9,5 million tonnes.
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/ 3 December 2004
Regulations controlling the use of 4x4s on South Africa’s beaches have been changed, allowing people who are physically disabled to apply for a permit to take their off-road vehicles on to the sand. The new regulations, published on Friday, will also allow people taking part in organised fishing competitions, as well as film crews, to obtain permits to drive on to beaches around the country.
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/ 2 December 2004
An African National Congress campaign of violence is to blame for the assassination of an Inkatha Freedom Party councillor, IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Wednesday. He was reacting to the death of Langa Ntshangase (35) who was shot twice in the head as he entered the front gate of his house in Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal at 9.15pm on Tuesday.
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/ 30 November 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/142915/aids_icon.gif" align=left>A year ago the government approved a national plan for the management, care and treatment of HIV/Aids. Its aim was to provide free anti-retroviral drugs in the public health sector. The HIV prevalence rates range from an estimated 13,1% in the Western Cape to a very high 37,5% of adults in KwaZulu-Natal. A <i>M&G</i> assessment as World Aids Day approaches reveals the leaders and laggards.
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/ 29 November 2004
Up to 70 KwaZulu-Natal teachers faced arrest on Monday as part of an education department and police clampdown on fraud and theft. Officials believed a syndicate operating within the department devised a scam whereby bogus qualification bonuses were fraudulently paid into some teachers’ bank accounts.
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/ 29 November 2004
A bus driver is facing charges of culpable homicide after nine passengers on a bus died when the vehicle smashed into a bridge near Mqutu, near Dundee in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. Seven people were critically injured — of whom two have died — and 18 were seriously injured — including the driver.
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/ 25 November 2004
The African National Congress (ANC) and the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) both won three of eight contested municipal by-elections held on Wednesday – with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) retaining two seats it previously had held.
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/ 25 November 2004
Fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik used his influence with Deputy President Jacob Zuma to squash attempts by a United Kingdom professor to start an eco-tourism school in KwaZulu-Natal, the Durban High Court heard on Thursday.
Shaik’s ‘error of principle’
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/ 23 November 2004
The Independent Democrats (ID) on Monday accused Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon of lying, saying his attack on the ID was made up of lies and that the DA’s ”so-called scorecard reads like a right-wing intelligence report”. Leon said earlier on Monday that the ID had ”few principles and limited prospects” and it was spending its meagre resources opposing the opposition.
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/ 23 November 2004
Down here, on the Deep South Coast, the pre-holiday panic is on. Supermarkets are full of frantic buyers, local authorities, understandably a little torpid during the rest of the year, are giving a spit and polish to those corners of the Hibiscus Coast that need it. This year, however, it’s been different, very different — the out-of-town holiday-makers have all been beaten to it by the purple alien …
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/ 22 November 2004
Delegates to South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) federal congress in Durban over the weekend were greeted by a flood of posters on just about every lamp post in the area surrounding the International Convention Centre, advertising the candidacy of an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) candidate and a DA candidate for the local municipal ward.
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/ 16 November 2004
The black working class and the poor and unemployed would suffer through the installation of pre-paid water meters, the Community Initiative Development Forum (CIDF) prepared to tell the Johannesburg City Council on Tuesday. ”Water is not a privilege; it is a right — a right that we are prepared to continue fighting for,” the CIDF said in a memorandum.
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/ 16 November 2004
A decade into democracy in South Africa, visitor figures for the country’s national parks still reflect a legacy of racial exclusion. Officials say up to 18 months ago, less than 4% of visitors were black. Although statistics for November show higher figures, perceptions remain of conservation as an elitist pastime confined to a white minority.
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/ 10 November 2004
The state produced a surprise witness in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial under way in the Durban High Court on Wednesday. A chief police inspector, Pierre Coret, from Mauritius, has taken the stand and is testifying about the two counts of corruption against Shaik with the aid of a French translator.
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/ 8 November 2004
The defence team in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial opposed the state’s application on Monday to allow a witness to testify via video link from Glasgow, Scotland. Professor John Lennon will only be able to travel to South Africa in either February or March 2005, which the state says is an unnecessary delay in the case before the Durban High Court.
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/ 8 November 2004
The state has applied for a witness to give evidence via a video link from the United Kingdom in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial. Professor John Lennon lives in Glasgow and is not able to come to South Africa before the court adjourns on December 10.
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/ 5 November 2004
The three levels of government should work together to ensure better coordination in the formulation and implementation of policies, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. The president was speaking in Empangeni in KwaZulu-Natal at a sitting of the National Council of Provinces .
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/ 5 November 2004
South Africa’s official opposition, the Democratic Alliance, says small and medium businesses should be excluded from costly — and bureaucratic — burdens imposed by the Employment Equity Act. Charges of alleged employment-equity violations against eight KwaZulu-Natal clothing companies will cost thousands of jobs, the DA said.
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/ 5 November 2004
The South African government’s refusal to disclose the number of children receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in KwaZulu-Natal province has raised fears among Aids activists that children’s rights to health care and life are being violated.
The national treatment plan, unveiled last November, initially targeted the treatment of 53Â 000 people by March 2004, which has since been extended to March 2005.
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/ 4 November 2004
The long-delayed taxi recapitalisation programme will be implemented from the beginning of the 2005/06 financial year, Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe announced in Pretoria on Thursday. Costing the government an estimated R7,7-billion, the recapitalisation programme will replace the country’s ageing taxi fleet.
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/ 4 November 2004
The South African government’s refusal to disclose the number of children receiving anti-retroviral drugs in KwaZulu-Natal has raised fears among Aids activists that children’s rights to health care and life are being violated. A survey at 13 of KwaZulu-Natal’s public hospitals found only 39 children were receiving anti-Aids medication.
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/ 3 November 2004
Mike Mabuyakhulu, who acted for KwaZulu-Natal’s late local government minister Dumisane Makhaye when he was ill, has been appointed to the post, the province said on Wednesday. Mabuyakhulu was formerly the province’s minister of finance.
Makhaye died last month and was buried last weekend.
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/ 2 November 2004
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) was to meet later on Tuesday to pass a resolution that backtracks on one passed by the chamber last week — "which regrets the refusal of the president to address the serious crime of rape in our country and to acknowledge the suffering of women and children who are attacked on a daily basis".
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/ 2 November 2004
Just months after Tata launched its range of vehicles on to the South African market, rival Indian auto maker, Mahindra, has arrived in South Africa. Launched to the media recently, the Bolero and Scorpio will no doubt find themselves competing head on against the more established brands in the market, although at a slightly different level and price too.
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/ 29 October 2004
Deputy President Jacob Zuma continuously ran up huge debts while knowing he could not afford to pay for his lifestyle, the Durban High Court heard on Thursday. Although Zuma is not on trial, most of the day was devoted to his financial affairs and the role played by his so-called financial adviser, fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik.
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/ 28 October 2004
Boeremag members had prayed and assured each other they were doing the right thing before planting bombs in Soweto in October 2002, the treason trial in the Pretoria High Court heard on Thursday. Self-confessed coup plotter Deon Crous said he and five of the Boeremag accused had planned and planted 10 bombs in the Soweto area.
Bombers did it for ‘Boer nation’
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/ 27 October 2004
A sum of R2-million that former president Nelson Mandela gave to Deputy President Jacob Zuma in October 2000 was used to pay the debts of Zuma and Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi Holdings, the Durban High Court heard on Wednesday. At that stage, Zuma experienced huge financial problems.
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