Extensive flooding in South Africa’s Western Cape, sparked by very heavy weekend rains, has caused extensive damage to about R12-million worth of wine at Van Loveren Wines, the family-owned wine producer located outside of Robertson.
The African National Congress has accused the Treatment Action Campaign of ”bully boy tactics” after its disruption of a speech by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Firebrand South African opposition Member of Parliament Patricia de Lille is to clarify her political future at a press conference in Cape Town on Wednesday amid widespread speculation that she is to start a new political party.
The African National Congress appears to have snatched complete control of the Western Cape legislature — leaving only the KwaZulu Natal legislature out of nine provincial legislatures outside of its complete control.
It is not macroeconomic madness to suggest that South Africa should introduce a full menu of HIV/Aids prevention and treatment programmes. The resources are there. The issue is now one of political judgement and will.
The African National Congress could emerge with an overall majority in the Western Cape with expected defections from the New National Party bolstering their numbers in the legislature.
The Democratic Alliance won a narrow victory in a key municipal by-election contest in the Western Cape town of Swellendam on Wednesday — pipping the African National Congress by 65 votes.
Pam Golding Properties, South Africa’s largest retail property group, has concluded sales worth over R1-billion to foreign investors from 48 different countries over the past 11 months (1 March 2002 – 31 January 2003).
After numerous delays, including a nose-bleed and having the charges translated from Afrikaans to English to Ndebele, the NNP’s disciplinary hearing against Peter Marais and Peter Malatsi commenced at about 8pm on Monday.
Ongoing gang-related violence on the Cape Flats seems to have stabilised after the deployment of hundreds of police last week in the affected areas, the Western Cape police commissioner said on Sunday.
The Western Cape’s three main political parties will be fighting it out in a key by-election in the leafy Swellendam on March 19 — the same day the country could be experiencing the defection shock wave at national and provincial level.
South Africa needed to market itself and its successes more effectively to attract foreign investment, according to President Thabo Mbeki’s International Investment Council.
Access to community knowledge and sources of information is a building block for economic development. Public libraries already play a vital role in this area — but they have more work to do. Counting the cost is a one-sided way of looking at the funding of public libraries: exploring the benefits shows the other side
South Africa’s municipalities were owed R24,3-billion nationally in outstanding service tariffs in September last year, according to figures tabled before Parliament’s provincial and local government portfolio committee on Tuesday.
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/ 28 February 2003
Gerald Morkel, once Western Cape premier, Cape Town mayor and Democratic Alliance provincial leader, will be handed his political death certificate at the Democratic Alliance provincial congress in Stellenbosch
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/ 28 February 2003
The Scorpions are preparing to seize an alleged bribe of R340 000 paid by the developer of the Roodefontein golf estate, Count Riccardo Agusta, to the New National Party, the elite investigative unit said on Thursday
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/ 25 February 2003
The two men who allegedly confessed to the murder of nine people at the Sizzlers gay massage parlour appeared briefly for the second time in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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/ 24 February 2003
A Cape Town club co-owner was shot dead when four armed robbers held up staff and patrons shortly after midnight on Monday, Western Cape police said.
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/ 22 February 2003
Former deputy social development minister David Malatsi has rejected any suggestion of improper involvement in another controversial property development.
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/ 20 February 2003
Five people were wounded when two men opened fire on a group of people at a shebeen in Grassy Park near Cape Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police said on Thursday.
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/ 19 February 2003
The Scorpions moved in on the two men at the centre of the Roodefontein kickback scandal on Wednesday, arresting former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and obtaining an undertaking from former deputy minister David Malatsi that he will hand himself over on Friday.
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/ 17 February 2003
Faced with fierce global competition from heavily subsidised farmers in Europe and elsewhere, Maluti Fruit Co- operative, one of South Africa’s largest new apple growers, says the South African government should assist the apple industry.
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/ 14 February 2003
Western Cape police made another breakthrough in the Sizzlers massacre case when the second suspect, arrested on Thursday night, made a full confession before a Cape Town magistrate on Friday.
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/ 7 February 2003
Two National Party politicians facing criminal investigation over alleged golf estate kickbacks today welcomed a raid on their homes by the Scorpions.
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/ 7 February 2003
The spin doctors of the left had a very hard time convincing anyone, but their line at least was clear. Trevor Manuel is a jolly nice man, well loved by his colleagues in the NEC, a good egg, whose stock as master of his financial ministry increases along with the rand.
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/ 6 February 2003
The Asset Forfeiture Unit confirmed on Wednesday it has requested the New National Party hold in trust a R300 000 donation linked to the controversial Roodefontein golf estate development.
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/ 5 February 2003
About 375 670 South Africans are expected to die from HIV/Aids this year, an increase of more than 30% from the estimated Aids-related deaths in 2000.
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/ 4 February 2003
Western Cape police had received an ”incredible” response from the public after the identikits of two men wanted in connection with the Sizzlers massage parlour murders in Sea Point appeared in newspapers last Friday.
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/ 31 January 2003
Former Cape Town mayor Peter Marais has been cleared of making damaging homophobic statements by the Public Protector.
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/ 30 January 2003
Homeowners around South Africa, particularly those situated in vicinities where the numerous Cricket World Cup games are to be held, stand to benefit from the positive exposure to be gained from hosting this high-profile event, according to Andrew Golding, CEO of the Pam Golding Property group (PGP).
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/ 30 January 2003
The Cape High Court on Wednesday halted any further activities at the controversial R250-million Roodefontein golf estate development at Plettenberg Bay.
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/ 28 January 2003
NNP member and Deputy Social Development Minister David Malatsi has quit. His move comes a week after defying NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s request to quit following the Roodefontein golf estate scandal.