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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 Police and Absa in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, were investigating claims made a client that R52 000 was withdrawn from his account.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.
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/ 23 September 2003
Opposition parties have by and large criticised the latest edition of the police’s crime statistics, saying they were old, drew the wrong conclusions and lacked credibility. Democratic Alliance chief whip and safety spokesperson Douglas Gibson described the figures as old and outdated.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20872">We’re winning the crime war, say police</a>
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/ 22 September 2003
The police has made great strides in reducing serious crime levels, although certain categories of crime have increased, says National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Since 1994, murder has now dropped by 29,5% and there is a decrease in high profile cases of aggravated robbery.
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/ 17 September 2003
I was chatting to Oom Krisjan Lemmer in the Dorstbult Bar the other day. ”Subsistence farming? Jy trek my been, man!” he exclaimed. ”It will take our farming backwards. ”Modern boerdery is about the market, including exports. It needs capital and skills. Only plaas-yuppies can win in this business.”
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/ 16 September 2003
The first relief payments are soon to be disbursed out of the Asbestos Relief Trust to five mesothelioma sufferers, claimant representative Reza Williams confirmed on Tuesday.
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/ 16 September 2003
Struggle leaders — including Nelson Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki — on Monday called on the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) at its eighth national congress to ensure that the African National Congress won the third democratic elections next year.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20533">Cosatu delegate found dead</a>
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/ 15 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki on Monday lashed out at opponents of the tripartite alliance, saying those who seek to cause division and weaken the organisation were dreaming.
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/ 14 September 2003
The Sealand Express, which ran aground in Table Bay during a storm last month, is free at last.
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/ 10 September 2003
While the Department of Health said a survey released on Tuesday showed that South Africa’s HIV infection rate was slowing, the Treatment Action Campaign and the Democratic Alliance said the findings had not been properly interpreted.
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/ 9 September 2003
An urgent bid by the SABC for access to the King inquiry into rugby’s race row was rejected in the Cape High Court on Monday. The SABC had asked the court to order the South African Rugby Football Union to instruct former judge Edwin King to allow it to broadcast the hearings.
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/ 5 September 2003
Mad Bad Bob Mugabe often says that people opposing him are not patriots. But Oom Krisjan would like to remind troubled Zimbabweans of what the author Edward Abbey once said: ”A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.”
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/ 3 September 2003
There were 276 022 South Africans ”on the run” from the police at the end of April this year, according to figures provided by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
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/ 3 September 2003
A novel quid pro quo deal, involving the state taking over farm capital costs in exchange for land for emerging farmers, was presented to President Thabo Mbeki during his Western Cape imbizo tour. The deal could secure about 1 400 jobs and create 600 new jobs and 800 seasonal jobs.
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/ 1 September 2003
The government’s claim that South Africa was not a crime capital and compared favourably with the rest of the world is refuted by United States crime figures, says official opposition chief whip Douglas Gibson.
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/ 1 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki faced some difficult questions at the final meeting of a three-day Western Cape imbizo held in Worcester — including why ANC members should vote for the ANC-NNP coalition and whether people living with HIV/Aids could receive a special grant.
The debate about nuclear power has escalated with the approach of the final deadline on Monday for appeals against Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa’s approval of a pebble bed modular reactor in the Western Cape.
Like a slumbering giant waking up to its potential, the North West province is aggressively marketing itself as a premier tourist destination for jaded domestic travellers and as a prime location for overseas tourists.
Western Cape divers will be the main beneficiaries of the new 10-year perlemoen harvesting rights that places a moratorium on quotas for recreational divers and eliminates larger fishing companies from competing for the rapidly dwindling mollusc.
The pumping of fuel from the Sealand Express, which ran aground earlier this week in the Cape, is going well, the joint operations committee set up to deal with the stranding has announced.
The African National Congress overturned a huge Democratic Alliance majority in a municipal ward in Uitenhage on Wednesday, winning a by-election by 248 votes and 48% of the vote.
Whoever wins in the bid for the New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) assets, consolidation of the media sector looks imminent, writes <i>Media Weekly</i>’s Kevin Bloom.
Cape Town began mopping up on Tuesday in the wake of a storm that brought snow, gale force winds and driving rain, and sent temperatures plunging.