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/ 17 February 2004
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The New National Party in the Western Cape on Tuesday became the first of the party’s provincial structures to release its candidates lists for the coming elections. Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk tops both the national and provincial lists by virtue of his position as provincial leader.
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/ 16 February 2004
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Two political minnows announced on Monday their coming together to contest the general elections, united in their ”fight against moral decay and godless government”. The New Labour Party and the Christian Democratic Party signed their cooperation agreement on Sunday evening, following months of negotiations.
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/ 16 February 2004
Environment Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa has announced his intention to designate five new marine protected areas, according to his department staff at Parliament on Monday. The areas will be designated in the government gazette on Tuesday.
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/ 16 February 2004
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The New National Party has committed itself to building almost a quarter of a million houses by 2010 as part of a blueprint for eliminating the Western Cape’s housing backlog. The plan is contained in the party’s 92-page manifesto for the province, released on Monday by NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk.
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/ 16 February 2004
The People’s Budget Campaign, representing NGOs, church groups and trade unions, has motivated for a modest increase in taxes relative to gross domestic product and an increase in state borrowing and a cancellation of the third tranche of fighter jets for the South African National Defence Force.
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/ 16 February 2004
An off-duty policeman was shot and killed while he was visiting his family in Khayelitsha in Cape Town on Saturday, Western Cape police said on Sunday. Inspector Elliot Sinyangana said Constable Siyabulela Leon Mcengwa (27) was killed when several shots were fired at him around 7.15pm. He was hit in the head and died at the scene.
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/ 15 February 2004
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The Democratic Alliance list of candidates for the 2004 election, to be contested on April 14, holds some surprises and a few predictable placements. DA leader Tony Leon predictably heads the Gauteng national list, followed by sitting MPs Ian Davidson, Richard Ntuli, Janet Semple and Chief Whip Douglas Gibson.
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/ 12 February 2004
In a windswept but joyous ceremony, former South African president Nelson Mandela on Wednesday handed over symbolic keys to the first two homeowners to resettle in Cape Town’s District Six. Ebrahim Murat (87) and Dan Ndzabela (82) will be the first of an estimated 4 000 homeowners to resettle in the area over the next 36 months.
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/ 12 February 2004
The African National Congress in the Western Cape has won Wednesday’s ward 42 by-election in Guguletu with an 86% majority. The Independent Electoral Commission spokesperson, Courtney Sampson, confirmed the result on Thursday morning. The only other party that contested the poll was the Pan Africanist Congress.
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/ 9 February 2004
Former Western Cape premier Peter Marais had been a temperamental and often melodramatic witness, and his evidence was contrived and self serving, the Cape High Court heard on Monday. Judge Anton Veldhuizen was hearing closing arguments in the case in which former MEC Freda Adams is suing Marais for R2,3-million for defamation and sexual harassment.
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/ 9 February 2004
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) on Sunday accused the authorities of preventing vital information from reaching the public and vowed to fight for the right of journalists to protect their sources. Sanef said the organisation was concerned over the flow of information from the police to the media.
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/ 6 February 2004
Aids campaigners in South Africa are worried about the apparent lack of progress in implementing a plan to distribute anti-retroviral drugs to millions of people living with the disease. More than 600 people die every day from Aids-related illnesses in South Africa, according to HIV/Aids support groups.
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/ 5 February 2004
Anant Singh’s DreamWorld consortium has been confirmed as the successful bidder to establish a multimillion-rand film city outside Cape Town. Construction is expected to start in the first quarter of next year, and finish early in 2006. Singh told a media briefing the consortium planned an investment of R400-million.
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/ 5 February 2004
Although South Africa has scaled up social spending over the past decade, considerable additional funding is needed to improve delivery to the country’s rural poor, a new study has found. One of the key challenges is beefing up service delivery in rural communities such as providing water and electricity.
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/ 3 February 2004
One of the United Kingdom’s fastest-growing insurance companies, the Budget Group, has announced its decision to set up a call centre in Cape Town, in an investment valued at R100-million. The call-centre industry in Cape Town already comprises more than 70 companies.
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/ 3 February 2004
Former president FW de Klerk has lent his support to the cooperation agreement between the African National Congress and the New National Party, warning that the country’s transition has become a one-sided affair. South Africa requires a special political model based on genuine cooperation, he said.
FW de Klerk’s ‘kiss of death’
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/ 2 February 2004
With a nervous eye on land invasions in Zimbabwe to the north, South African farmers have taken fright at legal changes to boost their government’s land expropriation powers. But legal experts say the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill pose little reason for real concern.
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/ 2 February 2004
Former South African president FW de Klerk’s expected endorsement of the pact between his former apartheid party, the New National Party, and the ruling black majority African National Congress has sparked a volley of arguments between opposition leader Tony Leon and the NNP.
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/ 2 February 2004
The South African province of the North West was the worst offender in spending or alternatively keeping track of its capital spending of South Africa’s nine provinces. In the first nine months of the fiscal year, the North West housing department spent only 2,6% of its capital expenditure allocation of R390-million.
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/ 2 February 2004
In a recent contribution to this newspaper (”Change needs self-criticism”) Saki Macozoma spoke of the role of black intellectuals in fostering a deliberative climate in which the performance of our new society could be assessed. White intellectuals must listen to their black counterparts, writes Judge Dennis Davis.
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/ 29 January 2004
More women than men registered to vote during the voter registration drive of January 24 and 25, and 18- to 25-year-olds proved those accusing them of apathy at least partly wrong. The Independent Electoral Commission on Thursday announced the results of the country’s second voter registration weekend.
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/ 28 January 2004
Western Cape education authorities were hard at work on Wednesday trying to avert an impending education crisis in the province. Meanwhile, pupils, parents and organisations marched in various areas to highlight their unhappiness with the status quo.
Cape parents protest
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/ 28 January 2004
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa says he is ”absolutely embarrassed” about a leopard that had to be put down after being injured in a trap on his family’s farm in the Western Cape. According to reports, the leopard was caught in a gin trap set by workers on Monday.
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/ 28 January 2004
South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance is "fuelling the fires of racism using the fig leaf of a strong opposition", the New National Party argued on Wednesday. In a raging set of pre-election volleys — the NNP and the DA have been at each other’s throats all week
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/ 28 January 2004
Disgruntled parents and their children gathered in front of the Western Cape provincial legislature on Wednesday to express their dissatisfaction with provincial education minister Andre Gaum and his ”disregard for pupils on the Cape Flats”. Allegedly no classes have taken place this year at Norwood Central Primary School in Elsies River.
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/ 27 January 2004
The first public verbal battles in South Africa’s election campaign between the traditional parties of the white minority have focused not on domestic economic policies or development issues — but on the perennial problem of neighbouring Zimbabwe.
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/ 27 January 2004
Four German nationals pleaded guilty to illegally collecting rare stag beetles in the Western Cape when they appeared in the Paarl Regional Court on Monday. The beetles, of the Colophon genus, are reportedly worth thousands of rands on international markets.
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/ 26 January 2004
Judge Siraj Desai thanked his supporters on his arrival at Cape Town International Airport on Sunday following allegations of raping a South African woman in India. He thanked everybody, including his lawyer, for the support they had given him, saying his wife had been ”a pillar of strength”.
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/ 26 January 2004
Mining magnate Brett Kebble believed that by ”giving financial assistance for the development of democracy, he was performing a public duty and would continue to do so throughout his career”. Kebble was on Sunday responding to media enquiries regarding the financial support he had given to the African National Congress.
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/ 25 January 2004
Leaders of all major political parties were out and about, encouraging unregistered citizens to take advantage of the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC’s) last voter registration weekend before the election. The voting stations are open from 8am to 5pm on Sunday.
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/ 23 January 2004
The labour union that has been trying to ”blockade” Cape Town International airport on Friday accused the police of causing traffic jams there. ”The police have started pulling out cars of all our comrades with aims to issue them with tickets,” said a South African Transport and Allied Workers Union spokesperson.
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/ 22 January 2004
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa on Wednesday delivered a 16-page judgement to bring down the curtain on a war of words between two national media personalities, precipitated by the Darrel Bristow-Bovey plagiarism claims.