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/ 4 November 2003
There’s more ot golf resorts than pitching wedges and nine-irons. You don’t have to be a golfer to appreciate the benefits of visiting a golf resort. Indeed, some of the best resorts and estates in South Africa are also top destinations for non-golfers.
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/ 4 November 2003
Ten years after the watershed 1994 election, black buyers are starting to establish a meaningful presence in the real estate market. Their arrival, with declining interest rates, rising business confidence and other positive economic factors, is expected to bolster the market’s future sustainability.
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/ 2 November 2003
A report containing the results of a probe into governance and management problems at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) was handed to Education Minister Kader Asmal in Pretoria on Saturday. Asmal received the report from Dr Bongani Khumalo, the independent assessor who conducted the probe.
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/ 31 October 2003
The gambling industry is making inroads on the African continent. If not closely monitored, it could bring with it a host of evils such as prostitution, money laundering and fraud — not to mention gambling addiction. These problems were discussed in Malawi recently at a meeting of industry regulators from around the continent.
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/ 30 October 2003
Tourism operator Thomas Cook is set to bring the first of 26 000 Germans over the next two years to South Africa on Friday. It has organised charter flights from Germany as a result of a ground-breaking agreement signed between the tour operator, South African Tourism, Tourism KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape Tourism Board.
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/ 29 October 2003
Twenty-six government officials, including two heads of districts from the KwaZulu-Natal agriculture department, have been arrested for fraud totalling R1,1-million, police said on Wednesday. The affected areas are Vryheid, Nongoma, Babanango, Empangeni and Eshowe.
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/ 29 October 2003
British tourist Derek Bond, who had a horror stay in a Durban jail for 20 days earlier this year, has returned to KwaZulu-Natal — this time at the expense and guest of Tourism KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 27 October 2003
The leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party youth brigade have had themselves tested for HIV/Aids at the party’s headquarters in Durban. The group said it had taken "the bold step of having ourselves tested" in line with a resolution taken by the IFP youth brigade conference held in Ulundi at the end of August.
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/ 24 October 2003
Peter Rorvik, director of the Durban International Film Festival, and Nashen Moodley, manager of the festival, respond to some questions from Shaun de Waal about the festival.
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/ 24 October 2003
An Umlazi businessman was found dead in an ambulance after it was hijacked while taking him to hospital on Thursday night, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday. Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said Vusumuzi Shezi (60) and Sibusiso Makhanya (38) were at Shezi’s spaza shop when four men entered the shop and randomly opened fire.
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/ 23 October 2003
KwaZulu-Natal provincial nature conservation has received at least 20 offers from people who want to become involved in a breeding project for the endangered black rhino. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife spokesperson Derek Potter said in a statement on Wednesday that the breeding project would be part of a new programme to increase the numbers of black rhino.
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/ 20 October 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday expressed shock following a road accident that left 15 pensioners dead and 13 seriously injured. The pensioners were queuing to collect their grants when a horse and trailer ploughed into the pensioners on the side of the road.
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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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/ 17 October 2003
Many fishermen angling from the shore along the Transkei coast are paying lip service to regulations governing the number and size of the fish they may catch, and most are ignorant about closed seasons for certain species.Richard Davies
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/ 17 October 2003
It was supposed to honour his resistance to racism in South Africa, but a new statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg has triggered a row over his alleged contempt for black people. The 2,5 metre high bronze statue depicting Gandhi as a dashing young human rights lawyer has been welcomed by Nelson Mandela, among others, for recognising the Indian who launched the fight against white minority rule.
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/ 17 October 2003
Decolonised South Africa, like decolonised India nearly half a century earlier, began as the toast of the world. India had its Mahatma Gandhi; South Africa had (and still has) Nelson Mandela. The other leaders of the Indian and South African struggle, many of them first among equals of Gandhi and Mandela, were equally impressive.
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/ 15 October 2003
Thousands of Eastern Cape taxi drivers say they will support anything that will halt the government’s taxi recapitalisation programme because they still don’t understand it. Nearly four years after the government announced its plan to upgrade the ageing taxi fleet, provincial taxi bodies still complain that they have been excluded from all critical stages of its development.
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/ 15 October 2003
The window that is opened on the political soul of President Thabo Mbeki in his weekly letter published in ANC Today offers an occasionally disturbing view. And most disturbingly, writes Sam Sole, he sets his face absolutely against debate and the consideration of criticisms.
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/ 14 October 2003
South Africa may be heading for a prolonged drought, which researchers warn could be among the most severe in decades. The country ”is currently experiencing drought conditions over most of the summer rainfall regions”, the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research said.
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/ 13 October 2003
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has rejected a report that there is a rift between him and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali. The controversy follows a speech in which Buthelezi reportedly described Mtshali as a man who "seems not to have had the wisdom or prudence to follow the leadership which I gave him".
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/ 12 October 2003
IFP President Mangosuthu Buthelezi accused the Mail & Guardian newspaper of purveying ANC propaganda ahead of the general elections next year. Buthelezi said the newspaper was diverting attention away from the ruling party by publishing an article under the headline ”Scorpions hunt for Inkatha’s arsenal”.
Scorpions hunt for Inkatha’s guns
Opposition parties want the minister of transport to send the government’s taxi recapitalisation programme back to the drawing board, saying the ”wheels have come off” the programme. This follows a court interdict granted on Wednesday to stop the signing of a memorandum between the government and the South African National Taxi Council.
Forty-six percent of South Africans who participated in a poll conducted by Research Surveys in August this year believed that President Thabo Mbeki was doing a good job as president of South Africa. Research Surveys said the results of the poll stemmed from interviews with 3 500 respondents over the age of 18.
Banking group Absa has been hit by another internet theft, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. Police and Absa in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, were investigating claims made a client that R52 000 was withdrawn from his account.
Police in Perth suspect that expat South Africans may be behind a new type of mugging. The modus operandi has been consistent — tourists are gently knocked down and held to the ground while pieces of paper are stuck in their pockets. After the muggers’ rapid disappearance, the pieces of paper are found to be tickets for the Springbok World Cup games.
The Pretoria High Court has granted an urgent interdict to stop the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the government and the South African National Taxi Council on the taxi recapitalisation programme barely 40 minutes before the signing ceremony was to take place at 3pm on Wednesday.
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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/ 25 September 2003
Pure criminal intent and not racism was behind violent acts against the farming community in South Africa, the Committee of Inquiry into Farm Attacks has found. One of the main findings of the report, released to the media in Parliament, was that the attacks were not politically motivated.
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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
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.