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/ 5 November 2003
The bulldozers were back in District Six last Tuesday, but this time it was to build, not destroy, and this time Noor Ebrahim was happy to see them. Three decades ago they rolled into his neighbourhood to erase a multiracial community that was an affront to apartheid, levelling houses, shops and cinemas to make way for a whites-only enclave.
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/ 4 November 2003
There’s more ot golf resorts than pitching wedges and nine-irons. You don’t have to be a golfer to appreciate the benefits of visiting a golf resort. Indeed, some of the best resorts and estates in South Africa are also top destinations for non-golfers.
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/ 4 November 2003
Ten years after the watershed 1994 election, black buyers are starting to establish a meaningful presence in the real estate market. Their arrival, with declining interest rates, rising business confidence and other positive economic factors, is expected to bolster the market’s future sustainability.
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/ 3 November 2003
Buffalo City Municipality is set to change racially offensive names of zones in its massive Mdantsane township. The sections of Mdantsane are currently numbered from NU1 to NU17. ”The term NU 1 to NU 17 stands for native unit and is offensive,” said mayor Sindisile Maclean at the unveiling of the Mdantsane Urban Renewal Programme.
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/ 1 November 2003
A South African scheme which pays unemployed people to abseil down cliffs and hack plants with chainsaws is claimed to be a model for how the world should tackle invasive alien species. Now, the country has been chosen to spearhead an international initiative against destructive plants and wildlife.
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/ 31 October 2003
South Africa’s internationally acclaimed wine industry could undergo significant changes in the future. A two-day black economic empowerment conference, which began in Cape Town on Friday, is expected to thrash out a black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for the sector.
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/ 31 October 2003
”The more that policy changes in South Africa, the more it is the same.” These words are from Govan Mbeki’s seminal book on rural resistance, The Peasants’ Revolt. In the post-apartheid era white domination and its crippling legacies are under attack from progressive government policies, and Mbeki’s words no longer apply.
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/ 30 October 2003
Tourism operator Thomas Cook is set to bring the first of 26 000 Germans over the next two years to South Africa on Friday. It has organised charter flights from Germany as a result of a ground-breaking agreement signed between the tour operator, South African Tourism, Tourism KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape Tourism Board.
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/ 29 October 2003
The bulldozers were back in District Six on Tuesday but this time it was to build, not destroy, and this time Noor Ebrahim was happy to see them. Three decades ago they rolled into his neighbourhood to erase a multiracial community that was an affront to apartheid, levelling houses, shops and cinemas to make way for a whites-only enclave.
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/ 28 October 2003
Government was spending billions on acquiring armaments for the defence force, but doing little to support and protect members of the South African Police Service, the United Democratic Movement said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 October 2003
Ever since we were asked to throw away our aerosol cans in the 1980s the public has been bombarded with ominous warnings about the consequences of human-induced climate change. ”At a global level we know that the world is warmer now than it has been for the past 1 000 years”, said Bob Scholes, chief research fellow at the CSIR.
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/ 24 October 2003
Twenty-eight commuters and the driver were injured when a train overshot Platform 8 at Cape Town station on Friday. The accident happened when the sixth train carrying morning commuters from Wellington overshot the platform shortly after 8am.
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/ 21 October 2003
The name Unisa is to remain, a university is to be named after former president Nelson Mandela, and the term technikon is to disappear, Minister of Education Kader Asmal said on Tuesday. He was announcing the new names of higher education institutions that are to merge in terms of a plan approved by the Cabinet last year.
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/ 21 October 2003
The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights in the Western Cape is to compensate families and former tenants in Paarl on Saturday for tenancy rights lost in terms of the Group Areas Act of the apartheid era.
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/ 20 October 2003
The icy cold weather gripping the country’s northern provinces is expected to last at least until Tuesday. At the same time, conditions which could lead to the development and spread of runaway veld fires were expected over the Cape Peninsula, the SAWS said.
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/ 18 October 2003
Statistics by the Department of Correctional Services indicate that of the country’s provinces Kwazulu-Natal, with 957, has the highest number of juveniles incarcerated. This was followed by the Western Cape, with 810 children, and Gauteng with 719 children.
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/ 17 October 2003
The New Labour Party has expressed its satisfaction that its leader, Peter Marais, has not been implicated in any wrongdoing over the controversial Roodefontein golf estate development. On Thursday Italian multimillionaire Count Riccardo Agusta pleaded guilty to corruption charges involving politicians in the Western Cape government.
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/ 17 October 2003
Both the Guinness Book of Records and Interpol say South Africa is the country with the highest rate of rapes, many of them against children, a conference in Cape Town heard on Friday, the final day of the 25th anniversary conference of the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Southern Africa.
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/ 17 October 2003
A group of uniquely informal churches that marry African traditions with Christian beliefs is experiencing phenomenal growth among black South Africans and is rapidly becoming the new mainline denomination. ”Some of us worship under trees, others in garages or sitting rooms or schools or flats. Our aim is to bring the people together. That is what made the African people survive oppression,” said Bishop Mshengu Tshabalala.
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/ 16 October 2003
Western Cape premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk must go, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday after hearing that developer Count Riccardo Agusta pleaded guilty to donating R400 000 to the New National Party to pave the way for planning approval of the Roodefontein golf estate development near Plettenberg Bay.
Marais maintains innocence
Case against Marais strengthened
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/ 16 October 2003
The state’s case against the Western Cape’s former premier Peter Marais and former environment and development MEC David Malatsi, both facing corruption charges, appears to have strengthened with developer Riccardo Agusta’s plea bargain.
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/ 14 October 2003
South Africans are renowned carnivores, but is the meat they are eating safe? This is the conundrum consumers face, with the National Federation of Meat Traders saying that the inability of the government to promulgate regulations relating to meat safety is a serious concern to the meat industry.
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/ 13 October 2003
A nine-month-old baby girl is being treated in hospital after she was raped in a house in Kalkfontein near Kuils River in the Western Cape on Sunday. The child was found crawling around the kitchen and crying uncontrollably. Her clothes were bloodstained.
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/ 11 October 2003
Six lions will be released into the wild near in South Africa’s Western Cape province within the next two months, 150 years after a hunter shot the last free lion in the region.
Forty-six percent of South Africans who participated in a poll conducted by Research Surveys in August this year believed that President Thabo Mbeki was doing a good job as president of South Africa. Research Surveys said the results of the poll stemmed from interviews with 3 500 respondents over the age of 18.
Banking group Absa has been hit by another internet theft, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. Police and Absa in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, were investigating claims made a client that R52 000 was withdrawn from his account.
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/ 26 September 2003
The idea of the Siyagruva series first came to me at a conference in mid-1999 when I listened to the head of the Centre for the Book in Cape Town, Elisabeth Anderson, talk about the need to get young people — teenagers — to read. Robin Malan, editor of the new Siyagruva series of novels for teens, tells how the successful project came about and developed.
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/ 26 September 2003
High inflation expectations among producers and consumers are one of the key threats to the South African Reserve Bank’s inflation target, according to SARB Governor Tito Mboweni. He also said the bank will continue to buy US dollars in the market to build up the country’s foreign exchange reserves.
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/ 25 September 2003
The problems of finding acceptable isiXhosa expressions for 21st Century political vocabulary came under the spotlight at an isiXhosa terminology workshop in Cape Town. The workshop is trying to address problems that government translators were coming across in their daily work.
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/ 23 September 2003
Internationally renowned filmmaker Anant Singh’s Dreamworld has been named the preferred bidder for the proposed multi-million rand Cape Town film studio. The announcement is subject to Dreamworld entering negotiations on cooperation with the other two shortlisted consortia.
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/ 23 September 2003
About 5,3-million people in South Africa, or 31,2% of those economically active, were officially unemployed in March this year, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. The corresponding figures for September and March last year, which Stats South Africa provided earlier, were 30,5% and 29,4% respectively.