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/ 13 November 2003
At a ceremony on November 15, members of the Giba community in White River, Mpumalanga, will become owners of Burgers Hall farm — land they were displaced from half a century ago. Handing over Burgers Hall is the first step in the resolution of a land claim that will end up returning 1645 ha of land (which cost R29 232 738) to about 500 households.
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/ 12 November 2003
Two Impala MK1 fighter pilots died almost instantly on Wednesday morning when their jet crashed 10m from the N4 highway in Mpumalanga’s notorious Crocodile Gorge. One of the pilots was flung through the roof of a passing truck after an apparent attempt to eject from his burning plane.
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/ 12 November 2003
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won two municipal by-elections – in the Western Cape at Breede River/Robertson municipality and at Dealesville in the Free State unopposed — while the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has won a seat at Phillipstown in the Northern Cape unopposed.
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/ 11 November 2003
A wide range of organisations have gathered in Cape Town to ask Parliament not to pass the Communal Land Rights Bill, which they claim gives too much power to traditional leaders to the detriment of the rural poor. However, the groups differed on how to lobby government to accede to their demands.
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/ 6 November 2003
South African Department of Labour on Wednesday said over one thousand contravention notices and almost 170 prohibition orders were issued by inspectors during last week’s blitz inspections of the construction industry, which ran from October 27 to 31.
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/ 31 October 2003
Cool conditions with a chance of some soft showers is the forecast for Saturday when the Sharks and Blue Bulls’ Currie Cup clash takes place at Loftus Versveld in Pretoria, a SA Weather Service spokesperson said on Friday.
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/ 27 October 2003
Former Mpumalanga premier-turned-businessman Mathews Phosa has been elected to the provincial African National Congress’s list of provincial and national candidates for next year’s elections, SABC Radio News reported on Monday. The ANC also announced on Monday that President Thabo Mbeki heads the North West’s national candidates nominations list.
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/ 21 October 2003
The name Unisa is to remain, a university is to be named after former president Nelson Mandela, and the term technikon is to disappear, Minister of Education Kader Asmal said on Tuesday. He was announcing the new names of higher education institutions that are to merge in terms of a plan approved by the Cabinet last year.
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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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/ 16 October 2003
The absence of detailed statistics relating to crime on tourism hampers efforts to get a true picture of the situation, says Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism Rejoice Mabudafhasi. The police’s administration system ”does not provide for a distinction between crime against tourists and crime against the general public”, she said.
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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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/ 10 October 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu said on Friday he would not give reports related to alleged irregularities in the provincial health department to Democratic Alliance MPL Clive Hatch.
What the heck kind of a name is ”Henry Nick” anyway? The young white prince found wandering in the forests of Mpumalanga, who turned out to be neither young, white nor, in fact, a prince, claims that he has finally discovered the true story of his heritage.
Four municipal by-elections are to take place in three provinces on October 15, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) contesting them all — but likely to win two of them. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) looks set to win the other two.
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/ 30 September 2003
A report into corruption in Mpumalanga’s Nkomazi municipality, covering a region near the Mozambique border, has recommended disciplinary action against five senior officials. The report was commissioned after allegations of wrongdoing were made in July this year.
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/ 26 September 2003
Media 24, publisher of the Sunday newspaper City Press, has hired an independent legal investigator to look into claims made in The Star on Friday that City Press editor Vusi Mona was linked to a company being paid millions to manage Mpumalanga’s scandal-clad image.
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/ 26 September 2003
The editor of City Press, Vusi Mona, was linked to a company being paid millions to manage Mpumalanga’s image, a Johannesburg daily newspaper reported on Friday.
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/ 25 September 2003
Ten of the 12 officials implicated in the draft forensic audit reports on alleged irregularities in the Mpumalanga health department are expected to appear before a tribunal on Thursday. Some of those implicated included former head of the health department Riena Charles and the chief financial officer, Richard Mnisi.
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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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/ 18 September 2003
A forensic audit of the Mpumalanga health department has recommended criminal proceedings be instituted against two Mpumalanga health department officials implicated in financial mismanagement. The SABC has reported it is in possession of the audit report, which Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has refused to make public.
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/ 16 September 2003
The first relief payments are soon to be disbursed out of the Asbestos Relief Trust to five mesothelioma sufferers, claimant representative Reza Williams confirmed on Tuesday.
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/ 12 September 2003
How much more proof will be necessary to show that the initials ANC no longer stand for African National Congress? It’s been but nine short years since the Union Buildings became head office to our bold new government, but quite enough time for the ANC, like some insect, to slough off its older and politically shapely exoskeleton, to metamorphose. ANC now stands for the Association of Nepotists and Cronyism.
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/ 11 September 2003
Every traveller has a special place, somewhere he or she keeps going back to and can never get enough of. For me that place has always been the Kruger National Park. And although I’ve stayed in a number of camps, and loved most of them, I have finally found my ”home” in the Kruger, where I could happily spend eternity.
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/ 11 September 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has refused a Democratic Alliance request to release an audit report about alleged mismanagement of funds in the provincial health department, the DA said on Thursday.
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/ 11 September 2003
Often driven through but rarely explored, Limpopo has been called South Africa’s forgotten province. Or perhaps it’s one of our best kept secrets? This week we trek north in our series on the attractions of the nine provinces.
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/ 8 September 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu needs to substantiate his allegations against the media, the National Press Club in Pretoria said on Monday in reaction to a Sunday newspaper advertisement in which Mahlangu lambasted the media.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20141">’Freedom of the press is a licence to kill'</a>
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/ 8 September 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has attacked the media, saying the press has been trying to send every black official — including the president — to jail. The premier made headlines this week after reshuffling his cabinet to rectify ”instances of mismanagement” and ”alleged wrongdoing”.
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/ 1 September 2003
National Union of Metalworkers of SA members began a strike at steel maker Columbus Stainless on Monday, a Numsa spokesperson reported.
I have a statement to make — Limpopo is lovely. And now, a sad admission — I have only just completed my first proper visit, after 12 years of living in South Africa. Sharon van Wyk appeals to adventurous holidaymakers to try it out for themselves.
Three men were found guilty in the Graskop Circuit Court in Mpumalanga on Tuesday of murdering television personality and author Pieter Pieterse last year.
Pro-democracy activists in Swaziland and the South African trade union federation Cosatu plan to blockade the country’s border with South Africa next week.
The harlequin sprite, a dragonfly long thought to be extinct throughout its home areas in KwaZulu-Natal, was rediscovered recently when a Working for Water team was clearing the Pilgrim’s Rest area in Mpumalanga of invasive alien plant species.