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/ 26 January 2006
A commercial destination of carnal pleasure has opened its doors opposite Parliament, media reports said on Thursday. The new business, the Model Club, arrived not long after MPs campaigned successfully for the closing of an Adult World sex shop opposite the houses of Parliament.
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/ 25 January 2006
South Africa should use its position on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board to persuade Iran to stop its nuclear programme, the United States ambassador to the IAEA, Gregory Schulte, said on Wednesday. South Africa has a vote on the 35-member IAEA board.
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/ 25 January 2006
A state-of-the-art convention centre and adjacent development precinct are to be built in Centurion, south of Pretoria, by June 2008 at an estimated cost of R1,5-billion. ”This project is of strategic importance to position the City of Tshwane as the African capital city,” project leader Jacob Ngakane said at the launch on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon were among the host of dignitaries at Wednesday’s memorial service for billionaire entrepreneur Anton Rupert. Rupert (89) died in his sleep at his home in Stellenbosch at 11pm last Wednesday and was and was buried next to his wife, Huberte, on Tuesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
Although relatively high growth rates in the past five years have confirmed that African economies are recovering, threats still remain, a United Nations report has found. ”In all, several major threats to African recovery remain,” according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects report released on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
Two Eastern Cape provincial ministers have run up a R1-million bill for official mileage with their private vehicles in just 20 months, the Dispatch Online reported on Wednesday. They are finance minister Billy Nel and economic affairs and tourism minister Andre de Wet.
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/ 25 January 2006
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Tension between political parties in certain areas of the country is a concern, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said on Wednesday. Thoko Mpumlwana, deputy chairperson of the IEC, asked parties attending a code-of-conduct signing ceremony in Pretoria to conduct themselves peacefully.
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/ 25 January 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>Inkatha Freedom Party Ingwe municipality mayor Innocent Miya and three councillors from nearby Ubuhlebezwe municipality have defected to Ziba Jiyane’s National Democratic Convention (Nadeco). Miya, according to Nadeco spokesperson Linda Hlongwa MPL, has been mayor of Ingwe since 2000.
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The African National Congress has published its national consolidated list of candidates for all municipalities for the 2006 local government elections due to take place on March 1. Nelson Mandela metro mayor Nceba Faku does not appear at all on the list while Tshwane Mayor Smangaliso Mkhathswa appears at number four slot.
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/ 25 January 2006
The chief executive of the South African Football Association, Raymond Hack, said on Wednesday that he would like to believe that the current pay dispute with the Bafana Bafana players had no effect on the 2-0 loss to Guinea in their opening match of the African Nations Cup on Monday night.
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/ 25 January 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will consider the personal circumstances of individuals it plans to prosecute for not applying for, or being refused, amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said this is normal procedure when prosecutions are taking place.
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/ 25 January 2006
The Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) has denied that it plans to retrench hundreds of workers, as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa feared. ”[At present] there are no plans to retrench any employees [in South Africa],” FMCSA spokesperson Ben Pillay said on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
After months of running on a skeleton crew, the Cape Town clothing factory owned by listed manufacturer Rex Trueform officially reopened on Wednesday under a new five-year lease agreement with House of Monatic, a wholly owned subsidiary of black economic empowerment group Brimstone Investment Corporation.
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/ 25 January 2006
A senior police officer is to probe allegations of racial tension in the North East Rand Dog Unit, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. ”It is very peculiar that this type of thing should be happening in this day and age,” Superintendent Eugene Opperman said.
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/ 25 January 2006
Preparations have been made for thousands of people to attend the memorial service of business tycoon Anton Rupert, who died last Wednesday, and was buried next to his wife Huberte on Tuesday. The memorial service takes place at the historic NGK ”Moederkerk” in Stellenbosch at 3pm on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
At least 12 crocodiles have starved to death on a farm in Serui, Zimbabwe, while another 258 are close to dying, that country’s Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. It said that some of the four-year-old crocodiles, which were kept in four dry ponds, showed signs of serious skin damage because of extended exposure to the sun.
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/ 24 January 2006
Four unions opposing Transnet’s restructuring plan will meet this week to decide when to serve the company with a 48-hour strike notice, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) said on Tuesday. ”We are hoping that by Monday next week we will formally announce the content of our plan of action,” said Randall Howard, Satawu’s general secretary.
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/ 24 January 2006
A vigil will be held in Cape Town on Tuesday night by victims of apartheid, as their lawyers possibly adjourn for a lunch-break while arguing a reparations lawsuit in a New York appeal court. Oral argument started in Khulumani et al vs Barclays et al on Tuesday with 87 South African victims claiming reparations from 23 foreign corporations charged with aiding and abetting the apartheid regime.
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/ 24 January 2006
The United States space agency Nasa may choose the Northern Cape as a site for an array of telescopes and antennae that communicate with spacecraft. Bernie Fanaroff, of South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology, said that a Nasa team had inspected several sites around Springbok and Upington in the Northern Cape.
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/ 24 January 2006
Agriculture MECs were sent back to do their homework on Tuesday when figures they presented to Parliament’s finance select committee differed from those provided by the national treasury. Chairperson Tutu Ralane instructed Casca Mokitlane of the Free State and Dikeledi Magadzi of Limpopo to report back in five days on the apparent anomalies.
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/ 24 January 2006
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Two opposition parties have given a cautious thumbs-up to the public broadcaster’s coverage of their March 1 municipal election campaigns so far, but the official opposition has cried foul. The Independent Democrats believe the party has been treated ”very fairly” by the SABC so far.
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/ 24 January 2006
The unemployment rate among black South Africans had dropped over the past four years but blacks still lagged far behind whites in the employment stakes, Stats SA’s labour force survey has found. The unemployment rate for black men had dropped from 31,5% in September 2001 to 26,6% last September, according to the survey, released in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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/ 24 January 2006
KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni’s son Monde died in a car crash near the Port Shepstone toll plaza on Tuesday, her office said. Monde Nkonyeni (16) was travelling to school with his siblings Steve and Sithabile when their car collided with a van.
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/ 24 January 2006
Prosecutions arising from Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) cases will start soon, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Monday. ”We do have five cases that are prosecutable. There are also cases which require further investigation,” Vusi Pikoli, National Director of Public Prosecutions, said.
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/ 24 January 2006
As the final preparations for the first of three A1 grand prix races were under way in South Africa on Tuesday, managers of host city Durban announced they have their sights set on building a reputation as a global motorsport centre. The A1 grand prix, a growing force on the world racing calendar, takes place on Sunday.
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/ 24 January 2006
A tremor of a magnitude of 3,6 on the Richter scale was recorded in the East Rand, 8km north-west of Germiston, on Tuesday at 11.13am, said Ian Saunders, project leader for the South African National Seismograph Network at the Council for Geoscience in Pretoria. The tremor was felt in many parts of Johannesburg.
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/ 24 January 2006
The spat between the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) over the Oilgate scandal grew on Tuesday with the DA accusing the NPA of ”failing to do its mandated duty”. On Monday, NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said the NPA had yet to receive a complaint by the DA about its handling of the scandal.
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/ 24 January 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), has not covered the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in nine days, says its official spokesperson Douglas Gibson. "The DA has now held five election events in a row and SABC TV has refused to provide coverage for any of them on SABC 3," he said.
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/ 24 January 2006
Police were on Tuesday continuing a search for the IT executive allegedly at the centre of the African National Congress’s spy and hoax e-mail saga. Durban-based Muziwendoda Kunene has not been seen since his wife dropped him off at a BP garage to board a taxi to Sandton City to attend to his business.
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It is time for change because the African National Congress government has failed to deliver, African Christian Democratic Party president Kenneth Meshoe said on Monday. Speaking at a public meeting in Mitchells Plain, Meshoe said the ACDP is committed to a clean government because dirty streets reflect the morals of those in charge.
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/ 24 January 2006
The Oilgate matter is still under investigation by the police after the Freedom Front Plus filed charges against Imvume Management last year, the party said on Monday. The National Prosecuting Authority said earlier on Monday it had yet to receive a complaint by the Democratic Alliance about its handling of the Oilgate scandal.
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/ 24 January 2006
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Smaller municipalities instead of metro and district councils are needed to bring the government closer to the people, says the Freedom Front Plus. Speaking in Pretoria on Monday at the launch of the party’s election manifesto for the local government election, FF+ leader Pieter Mulder said South Africa is increasingly centralising its government functions.