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/ 27 January 2003
Two more men have been arrested in connection with last week’s attack which claimed the life of KwaZulu-Natal social welfare MEC Prince Gideon Zulu’s son, police said on Monday.
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/ 24 January 2003
There should be no doubt about the commitment of the Department of Correctional Services in carrying out the recommendations of the Jali Commission, Minister of Correctional Services Ben Skosana said in a report released on Thursday.
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/ 23 January 2003
Police have deployed a special task team to investigate the massacre on Tuesday of eight members of a family at their home in KwaMaye near Bergville in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, police said on Thursday.
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/ 22 January 2003
Eight members of a family — including five children –- were shot and set alight by gunmen in their home in KwaMaye in the Upper Tugela district of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Tuesday night, police said.
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/ 22 January 2003
Four men were detained in Ulundi on Tuesday morning for the possession of an illegal firearm and were being questioned in connection with the attack on, and murder of, KwaZulu-Natal social development MEC Prince Gideon Zulu’s son, provincial police reported.
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/ 21 January 2003
Prince Mazwi Zulu, who was shot on Monday in an attack on a car carrying him and his mother near Ulundi on Monday died in Durban’s St Augustine’s hospital just before 3pm on Tuesday.
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/ 21 January 2003
The black wildebeest, which evolved around a million years ago on the central plains of southern Africa, is now under threat due to cross-breeding with its ancestral species the blue wildebeest, scientists warn.
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/ 21 January 2003
HIV/Aids was expected to slash 12-million off South Africa’s population growth by 2015, the University of South Africa’s Bureau of Market Research (BMR) said on Monday.
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/ 21 January 2003
The attack on a vehicle owned by senior Inkatha Freedom Party member and KwaZulu-Natal MEC Prince Gideon Zulu, in which his son and driver were critically wounded, appeared not to be political motivated, IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Monday night.
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/ 20 January 2003
The son of KwaZulu-Natal social welfare MEC and Zulu royal Prince Gideon Zulu was critically injured in Ulundi on Monday in what the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) called a failed ”assassination attempt” on Prince Zulu’s life.
IFP calls for ‘calm and restraint’
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/ 20 January 2003
The national representative of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Reverend Musa Zondi, has called for ”calm and restraint” among members and supporters of the IFP in the wake of an assassination attempt on Prince Gideon Zulu this morning, in which his son, Prince Mazwi and the driver, Mr Mdlalose, were critically injured.
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/ 17 January 2003
South Africans are marginally more pessimistic about this year than they were about 2002, an international survey has found.
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/ 17 January 2003
Dumisani Makhaye must be feeling that sometimes his words can come back to haunt him. The ANC NEC member has been going around telling disgruntled Eastern Cape ANC members to accept the national leadership’s decision to dissolve the provincial structures.
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/ 16 January 2003
The recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Botswana won’t easily spill over into South Africa’s Limpopo Province as the provincial agriculture department already has strict control measures along the border, provincial representative Phuti Seloba said in a statement.
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/ 13 January 2003
In light of the recent spat between Minister of Transport Dullah Omar and KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress leader S’bu Ndebele, the Automobile Association of South Africa has called for closer co-operation between the three spheres of government to reduce fatalities and injuries on the country’s roads.
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/ 10 January 2003
KwaZulu-Natal legislators, who lost their seats when they defected to the African National Congress last year, said on Friday they supported this week’s floor-crossing agreement despite the fact that they were effectively sacrificed for the deal.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has won a clever game of political chess with the African National Congress (ANC) over which party has the right the govern the province of KwaZulu-Natal. It has also wrung a key concession from the national ruling party.<br>
<li><a class="standardtextsmall" href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=9882">IFP opens door to 11th hour compromise</a><br>
<li><a class="standardtextsmall" href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=9904">ANC backtracks on floor-crossing bill</a><br>
<li><a class="standardtextsmall" href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=9881">IFP to set KZN on path to elections</a>
The Inkatha Freedom Party is expected to put KwaZulu-Natal on the path to fresh elections on Wednesday when it leads a vote to dissolve the province’s legislature.
Foreign tourists have spent about R4-billion over the December holiday period, providing a significant boost to Western Cape province’s economy, according to Mike Fabricius, CEO of Western Cape Tourism.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has opened the door to an eleventh hour compromise with the African National Congress (ANC) to avoid forcing a provincial election in its powerbase of KwaZulu-Natal.
While the road death toll since December 1 mounted to 1 236 by Monday, the Democratic Alliance demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Dullah Omar, or his removal from office.
Justice Minister Penuell Maduna is to ask Parliament to affect changes to draft defection legislation in line with an agreement reached between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC).
President Thabo Mbeki will interrupt his leave to go to the African National Congress’ headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday to discuss a looming legislative crisis in Kwazulu-Natal with the party’s leadership.
A man charged with allegedly helping devise a right-wing plot to overthrow the government, was freed on R20 000 bail in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
How many of the year’s events can you remember?<br>
1 Who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature?<br>
2 Which KwaZulu-Natal mayor said Cape Town could "keep [the] moffies and gays"?
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
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/ 24 December 2002
About six months ago I was invited to the University of Pretoria to participate in a debate with Xolela Mangcu, the drector of the Steve Biko Foundation, on why race (and ethnic) relations seemed to be more contentious as the transition progressed.
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/ 17 December 2002
Day two of the African National Congress’ 51st conference will see delegates knuckling down to work, after an opening day of report-backs by the party’s outgoing national leaders.
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/ 15 December 2002
The National Council of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) on Saturday mandated the party’s chief whip and the premier of KwaZulu-Natal to call an early election in the province.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
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/ 13 December 2002
Supporters stood at attention and sang the old Transvaal Republic’s anthem as eight alleged rightwingers appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Thursday afternoon on charges of high treason, terrorism, and sabotage.
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/ 6 December 2002
Relations between Cosatu and the clique within the ANC that seems hell-bent on breaking up the tripartite alliance seems to have reached an all-time low, if the kindergarten level of insults being traded is anything to go by.