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/ 9 December 2003
Senior police management should take notice of some disquieting perceptions among police reservists contained in newly compiled research, as the South African Police Service (SAPS) considers making more use of reservists. The research delves into the impressions of active police reservists and their role in the SAPS.
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/ 26 November 2003
The Department of Labour has visited more than 250 business sites in Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, Northern Cape and Western Cape as part of the nationwide blitz inspections to check on employers’ adherence to the Employment Equity Act.
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/ 25 November 2003
Controversial legislation requiring school governing bodies to apply to provincial education departments for permission to give teachers extra pay or benefits was approved on Tuesday. ”We have too many cases … of ‘perks for pals’, determined only by the principal,” said Education Minister Kader Asmal.
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/ 25 November 2003
The South African economy grew by 1,1% in the third quarter of this year, Statistics SA reported on Tuesday. It said this compared to real annualised growth rates of 0,9% in the first quarter (revised from 1,5%) and 0,5% in the second one (revised from 1,1%).
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/ 24 November 2003
President Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, are predictably first and second on the African National Congress’s provisional list of national candidates for next year’s general elections, released on Monday. The national and provincial lists were adopted by the ANC’s national list conference at the weekend.
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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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/ 12 November 2003
South Africa’s controversial plans to push forward with the construction of a new nuclear reactor continue to raise the ire of environmentalists across the country. But until recently the voices of protest were mostly those of the white middle classes. Now grassroots activism is being intensified to ensure that all communities are fully aware of the potential risks of nuclear energy.
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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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/ 7 November 2003
De Beers has announced a R16,8-million investment in its "Big Hole project" at the Northern Cape mining city of Kimberley, the provincial capital, to develop the facilities on the perimeter of the famous diamond mine, which closed operations in 1914, and to boost the city’s future tourism potential.
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/ 6 November 2003
A report on the Saulspoort bus tragedy, released on Thursday, stated that brakes were defective on at least three of the disaster bus’s wheels. Free State MEC for public works, roads and transport Sekhopi Malebo released the report, compiled by a Pretoria company specialising in such investigations.
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/ 1 November 2003
Rightwingers planning a coup d’etat believed their terrorist deeds would be blamed on Muslim fundamentalists, the Pretoria High Court Boeremag treason trial heard on Friday. The Boeremagmeeting, where this was decided, was held two days after the attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre, which was blamed on Muslim fundamentalists.
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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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/ 30 October 2003
Rightwingers planning a coup d’état were in 2001 provided with maps, aerial photographs and weapons and ammunition stock lists of the Lohatlha defence force base in the Northern Cape, police informer Johannes Coenraad Smit told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
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/ 28 October 2003
Scientists from 16 countries will gather in Cape Town on Wednesday to discuss progress on the powerful Southern African Large Telescope (Salt), which is being built outside Sutherland in the Northern Cape.
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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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/ 26 September 2003
Artist Aidan Walsh has documented his travels to SA’s deserted spots in a series of paintings. Rajendra Chetty talks to the artist about the originating ideas for his Karoo journey and the social commentary behind his depiction of stark landscapes.
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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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/ 19 September 2003
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has called the probe into allegations of corruption related to the multi-billion rand arms deal and his own alleged involvement, a test of South Africa’s democracy, saying the affair has actually proven how mature the country’s democracy has become.
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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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/ 2 September 2003
The first compensation payments from Cape plc to 7 500 asbestosis victims in the Northern Cape were being processed, legal firm Leigh, Day and Co confirmed on Tuesday.
The wind whipped at my exposed ears as I tried to focus on the diminutive dynamo that is SA Tourism CEO Cheryl Carolus. All around me fellow hacks and travel fundis shivered miserably in the bitter Jo’burg morning. Welcome to the launch of Tourism Month and the concrete cold of SA Tourism’s head office in Illovo.
Bogus victims increasingly ‘cry rape’ to obtain free treatment from clinics against possible HIV/Aids infection, Northern Cape health MEC Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday.
The debate about nuclear power has escalated with the approach of the final deadline on Monday for appeals against Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa’s approval of a pebble bed modular reactor in the Western Cape.
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.
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 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.
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.
The Southern African Large Telescope camera (Salticam) has taken its first pictures of galaxies and stars, the SA Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) at Sutherland in the Northern Cape said on Tuesday.
The Griqua community of Bucklands near Douglas in the Northern Cape celebrated June with other dispossessed communities by receiving back land taken by the apartheid government.
British company Cape Plc on Friday paid about R93-million in compensation to 7 500 South African workers who suffered a range of diseases after being exposed to asbestos at work. Gencor Ltd. will also pay about R39,7-million to Cape claimants who were also exposed to asbestos while working for Gencor.
The Khomani San still live in squalor four years after they were granted land in the remote Kalahari that consultants say could make the small band one of the richest communities in South Africa.