The month-old foal born in Vergelegen, Western Cape, and growing up nicely as programme to breed the sub-species celebrates its success
About 95% of the blaze, which started in Table View, has been contained but coals are still smouldering
Residents say most of the Denel employees were locals. The facility was one of the biggest job providers in the area
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Joan Poole recalls with clarity the traumatic moment more than 40 years ago when she heard her family would have to move from their home.
Two people died when a small aircraft crashed on to Vergelegen farm outside Somerset West in the Western Cape at about 2.20pm on Tuesday, police said. ”The pilot was performing flying techniques when one of the wings fell off,” said police spokesperson Captain Elliot Sinyangana.
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/ 18 November 2004
The policy of black economic empowerment (BEE) should be better communicated, especially to foreign countries, an economics conference was told on Thursday. Professor Willie Esterhuyse, of the University of Stellenbosch, was addressing delegates on the political outlook for South Africa.
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/ 18 November 2004
A little less market confidence in the rand might be a ”welcome relief”, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Thursday. He told a Bureau for Economic Research conference in Somerset West that by making the correct decisions, South Africa had by 2001 been able to adopt an expansionary fiscal stance, in a context of renewed business confidence.
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/ 22 September 2004
More than half the commercial farmers in the Eastern Cape will face bankruptcy if they are forced to pay a land tax set at 2% of market value, according to research released on Wednesday. That rate would lead to an 89% drop in profits for farmers in the province and have other equally serious knock-on effects.
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/ 21 September 2004
Rabbit meat could be the food of the future for poor South Africans, according to a team of researchers from the University of the Free State. In a paper released at a Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa conference, they said the animals are a cheap and easy-to-raise form of low-cholesterol protein.
Scientists and health officials meeting in Somerset West on Monday criticised what they believed was the cool response of the developed world towards investing in an African Aids vaccine.
A Dutch woman who with her lover faces a murder charge in connection with the death of her husband Gerrit Klip, has told the court that it was her idea to get rid of the body.
Expectations of an Aids vaccine within seven to 10 years are realistic, said South African Medical Research Council chairman Malegapuru Makgoba.