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/ 13 January 2003
About 90 000 houses are to be built for needy South Africans thanks to a R200-million deal between the National Reconstruction and Housing Agency (Nurcha) and an American investment company.
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/ 13 January 2003
The South African government said on Monday it had no prior knowledge of a plan in terms of which Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe would resign and be replaced by a coalition government.
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.
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.
The South African government criticised Australia on Friday for issuing a ”generalised” public warning about possible terror attacks in SA, without using normal diplomatic channels.
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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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/ 12 December 2002
American President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are using ”pretext upon pretext” to bring about a regime change in Iraq, says former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda.
South African detectives arrested six directors of Krion Financial Services — an alleged pyramid scheme — on Tuesday, and seized assets of 45 agents of the firm in five provinces, detective services’ Martin Aylward said.
South Africa’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma met Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah.
There are almost 100 000 legalised refugees in the country, the Department of Home Affairs said on Thursday, World Refugee Day.
South Africa’s targeted CPIX inflation rate rose by 8,8% in the year to April compared to 8% in the year to March.
THE South African police hoped to reopen about one million unsolved criminal cases by the end of the year.
SOUTH African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will lead a delegation of ministers from the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to the Middle East to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the government announced on Tuesday.
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Police raided the homes of several rightwingers on Friday in the wake of recent bombings blamed on the far right and threats of more violence.
South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has opposed the government’s plans for a single financial regulator, fuelling speculation of a rift with the Treasury over the issue.
The Delta Motor Corporation was granted an interim interdict on Friday evening prohibiting the son of a prominent politician from exhibiting his car, which is covered in slogans denouncing the company.
A number of recently-appointed North West traffic officials could lose their jobs if it was found their driver’s licences were fake, the provincial transport department said on Friday.
The SA National Defence Force is planning to conduct a major exercise in the Free State and Northern Cape in September.
An information technology (IT) recruitment company on Monday said reports of a ”brain drain” of professionals out of the country often ignored the numbers returning to South Africa, often with enhanced skills.
A wildlife expedition from Pretoria will depart to Angola this week to find out whether the Giant Sable antelope has survived the civil war.
South Africa’s targeted CPIX inflation measure vaulted to record high in August, official data showed on Tuesday, supporting the Reserve Bank’s decision last week to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year.
Transport minister Dullah Omar said on Friday he supported the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) suspension of its chief executive, Trevor Abrahams, calling on Abrahams to co-operate with the investigation.
President Thabo Mbeki became the first recipient of South Africa’s new national orders on Monday.
A plane intended to take South African humanitarian aid to Palestinians was still grounded in Johannesburg late on Wednesday, an aid official said, calling Israeli objections political rather than technical.
As police were rounding up suspected right-wing troublemakers in a countrywide swoop on Friday, a body purportedly representing such extremists threatened more violent attacks.
Contraventions of exchange control regulations in a transaction involving Nampak and Deutsche Bank should be referred to the prosecuting authority.
Smaller parties lost their members to the bigger ones and 16 of a total of 555 municipal councillors who crossed the floor over the past two weeks had tried to switch political parties more than once, says the Independent Electoral Commission.
The recent rash of bombings in Gauteng reflected rising discontent among Afrikaners, the Afrikaner Group of 63 said on Thursday.
DEPUTY PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma said plans were in place to help government hospitals distribute the antiretroviral drug nevirapine, SABC Radio news reported on Saturday.
Afrikanerweerstandbeweging (AWB) leader Eugene Terre’Blanche might appeal Thursday’s Pretoria High Court judgement against his application to be declared a suitable candidate for correctional supervision.
Unarmed opposition and civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began informal talks on Friday with South African President Thabo Mbeki, aimed at finding common ground between them and the other belligerents in DRC’s war.
A group of conservative Afrikaner politicians on Saturday formed a new political party, which they said would cater specifically for the needs of South Africa’s former ruling white minority.