Pam Golding Properties (PGP), South Africa’s largest residential property sales company by turnover, has recorded record annual sales of R6,521-billion rand for the financial year.
The flamboyant tycoon behind Mpumalanga’s infamous R50-billion Dolphin Deal has been arrested in Kenya after almost a decade on the run.
Controversy over rural security has deepened in South Africa with a government decision to phase out a paramilitary force that was part of the apartheid state’s security apparatus.
The last remaining South African ”human shields” in Iraq will return home next Tuesday after they decided to leave the war-torn country, the Iraq Action Committee said on Friday
Pam Golding Properties, South Africa’s largest retail property group, has concluded sales worth over R1-billion to foreign investors from 48 different countries over the past 11 months (1 March 2002 – 31 January 2003).
The government’s legal battles against the Aids lobby group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) last year cost R2,88-million, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
The newborn baby boy who was found in a black plastic bag outside a panel beating premises in Marabastad on Saturday morning has died, Pretoria police said on Tuesday.
The Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) has successfully recovered ,9-million paid to a company in terms of an ”irregular” contract for the sale of the SFF’s strategic stock, Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Monday.
The Legal Aid Board has come to the assistance of a 13-year-old boy who was apparently infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at the Pretoria Academic Hospital last year.
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/ 24 February 2003
A group of San (Bushmen) from Lake Chrissie in Mpumalanga visited the mountain peaks of their forefathers in KwaZulu-Natal last week, along with local San descendants and other San from the Northern Cape.
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/ 21 February 2003
The number of sites distributing nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant mothers in Mpumalanga would increase to 55 by early next year, premier Ndaweni Mahlangu announced on Friday.
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/ 14 February 2003
Anglo Platinum and Cluff Mining plc announced on Friday that they had finalised an agreement to establish a joint venture for developing the Sheba’s Ridge platinum project in Mpumalanga.
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/ 11 February 2003
Going to jail in solidarity with Mpumalanga health MEC Sibongile Manana was the first constructive proposal made by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the UDM said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 February 2003
Platinum mining will create employment for the foreseeable future and gold mining appears to have stemmed the haemorrhaging of jobs of the past six years, figures from Department of Minerals and Energy suggest. This in a week when platinum touched a high of $698 an ounce.
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/ 30 January 2003
The ”so-called” out-of-court settlement between the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to ”doctor” the TRC report was a cause for serious concern, the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal said on Thursday.
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/ 24 January 2003
Listed petrochemicals group Sasol (SOL) has commissioned its technologically advanced R1-billion new alcohol plant at Secunda in the Mpumalanga province the company said on Thursday.
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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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/ 16 January 2003
The Mpumalanga Parks Board denied on Wednesday afternoon that it would endanger the lives of eight lions at a predator sanctuary in the province by moving them to another location.
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.
British American Tobacco deliberately sought to undermine health experts’ work on tobacco control in Southern Africa in the early 1990s.
Three girls between the ages of 10 and 15 were raped and a woman was gang-raped and her boyfriend murdered in separate incidents in the KwaMhlanga area of Mpumalanga this week.
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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/ 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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/ 5 December 2002
Traditional healers are battling to get patients to go for follow-up tests after they have tested HIV-positive.
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/ 15 November 2002
Oom Krisjan is a regular recipient of important Western Cape government information via e-mail. This week his attention was drawn to one particular missive from provincial Housing MEC Nomatyala Hangana.
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/ 22 October 2002
The weapon allegedly used in the murder of a British tourist at Pilgrim’s Rest was found on Friday afternoon, apparently in the suspect’s home, police said.
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/ 20 September 2002
The Cabinet’s April 17 statement on HIV/Aids policy — widely hailed as a crucial change of heart — is looking increasingly threadbare. Was it, as some maintain, merely a tactical manoeuvre to deflect international condemnation in advance of the G8 meeting in Canada.
The Treatment Action Campaign wants to act against provinces that don’t want to roll out the programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV.
Last week we erroneously reported that the African National Congress called for HIV/Aids to be declared a notifiable disease.
A British woman was shot dead and her husband wounded during an attack at a hotel in Pilgrims Rest on Tuesday night, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.