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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.
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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.
Thirteen armed robberies and five rapes were reported during the opening week of a shopping plaza in Mpumalanga, police said on Tuesday.
Over three-quarters of South Africa’s municipalities had not submitted financial statements for the 2001/02 financial year by September last year, in contravention of legislation requiring they do so.
A three-year-old White River girl was locked in a cage while her grandparents allegedly sexually assaulted her and failed to provide for even her most basic needs, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday.
A condom project touted this week as one of the most ”innovative” to stem from the offset programme linked to South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms deal does not yet exist and has yet to create a single job.
The Democratic Alliance continued pushing the Ministry of Safety and Security on Wednesday for the release of crime statistics on a more regular basis than once annually.
A Malaysian business consortium has invested R30-million in a condom-making factory in Mpumalanga province, South African government news agency Bua News reported on Monday.
National police commissioner Jackie Selebi ordered an immediate inquiry on Tuesday into alleged police brutality after a man was mauled by a police dog, then arrested and shackled to a hospital bed.
As awareness of the Aids crisis breaks in Swaziland like a blinding dawn, measures that would have been unthinkable a year ago are now being initiated.
The parents of teenager Happy Sindane — who claims a black woman adducted him from a white family years ago — have still not been found, officials said on Tuesday.
A total of about 7 000 women around the country had received the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine at State hospitals and clinics by December last year, according to South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
The room occupancy rate and the bed occupancy rate of hotels in South Africa for May 2003 increased by 0,2% and 0,9% respectively, compared with May 2002, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday.
South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana on Tuesday commended farm owners who complied with the employment conditions and minimum standards set by the Labour Department.
World Population Day, which will be celebrated on Friday, will focus on the youth of South Africa, social development minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday.
Five of the nine provinces had underspent their HIV/Aids grant allocations for the 2002/2003 financial year.
A free Northern Sotho-English dictionary is now available on the internet, thanks to four people in Pretoria who are voluntarily giving their time and dipping into their own pockets to make it possible.
The repeated rape of a 15-year-old boy by an adult in a Mpumalanga police station holding cell has provoked an outcry from opposition parties, including a demand for a proper investigation of the incident.
An estimated 31% of Nelpruit’s population of 600 000 is infected with HIV/Aids. Now the city has another problem: a dramatic increase in child rape caused by the myth that sex with a virgin cures HIV.
While the government holds up its mother-to-child HIV-transmission prevention programme as the continent’s largest, it is turning into a shambles in many provinces.
A total of 3 733 vacancies in South African government departments existed as at May 26, said Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi on Tuesday.
A new arts body was launched on June 7 amid controversy. Mike van Graan delivered the keynote address.