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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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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 farmer Crawford von Abo, arrested in Zimbabwe on Sunday, had been released and was expected to appear in court on Tuesday.
South Africans should not expect a drop in interest rates for the remainder of the year, Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday.
South Africa and China are to work jointly in developing herbal medicine.
Economic activity in the country continued to rise, with an increase of 2,2% in the Gross Domestic Product in the first quarter of the year compared to the previous quarter, reports Statistics South Africa.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions has urged all South Africans to support its two-day strike against privatisation starting on Tuesday.
The state arms agency, Armscor, said the Department of Justice’s specialised commercial crime unit had been given access to all documentation it might require in order to investigate the alleged smuggling of missile technology to Chile.
A South African Islamic charity organisation and the Foreign Affairs Department are to deliver a R5-million aid package to Palestinian refugees in Ramallah.
Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz arrived in South Africa on Wednesday for a five-day visit that will include a meeting in Pretoria on Thursday with President Thabo Mbeki.
South Africa’s intelligence services will ensure that ”mad rightwingers” threatening the peace will regret the day they were born, Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Friday.
The latest hotel occupancy statistics confirm Tourism Minister Valli Moosa’s description of South Africa as a ”hot” tourist destination.
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche has received a second chance at an early release from prison.
The Noupoort Christian Care Centre said it would refuse a government-appointed investigating team access for its probe into alleged human rights violations at the Northern Cape drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility.
The South African Council for Educators has struck the names of 11 teachers off the roll during the past three months, in most cases because of sexual misconduct.
On the eve of a Cabinet meeting at which the ”reconfiguration” of higher education is to be discussed, technikon heads on Tuesday expressed concern about rumoured plans to do away with their institutions.
A team of South African officials will leave on Wednesday to attend the Burundi peace talks in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam.
President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday he was disturbed by a newspaper report that his government had refused to help fund a project aimed at preventing a San language from becoming extinct, and stated that he was making an undertaking to do so.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi reaffirmed on Thursday the right of South Africans holding dual citizenship to use their foreign passports abroad.
Two men appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of defrauding the Road Accident Fund.