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/ 24 January 2003
The New National Party’s leadership has suspended the party membership of Social Development Deputy Minister David Malatsi and former Western Cape premier Peter Marais pending an internal party investigation.
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/ 23 January 2003
Corruption, bribery and intimidation charges have been laid against Deputy Social Development Minister David Malatsi, former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and Italian businessman Ricardo Agusta relating to the Roodefontein golf estate development scandal.
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/ 23 January 2003
Sex workers and members of gay and lesbian organisations are expected to attend a memorial service on Saturday for the eight men murdered at Sizzlers, the gay brothel in Sea Point.
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/ 23 January 2003
A formal request for an investigation into a controversial golf estate development which may sink senior New National Party members was delivered to the public protector’s national and provincial offices on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 21 January 2003
Deputy Minister of Social Development David Malatsi defied his party leader on Tuesday by refusing to quit, as the New National Party (NNP) tried to limit the damage arising from another party funding scandal in the province.
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/ 20 January 2003
South African police are investigating charges of assault and verbal abuse against British footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones, after complaints made by three women following a raucous party, a representative said on Sunday.
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/ 20 January 2003
Perlemoen is in danger of becoming extinct if current poaching levels continued, SABC television news reported on Sunday.
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/ 19 January 2003
The African National Congress (ANC) has poured cold water on Democratic Alliance (DA) hopes that it will support the DA in a motion of no confidence in Western Cape premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk.
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/ 19 January 2003
Former deputy minister David Malatsi and controversial Western Cape politician Peter Marais are to appear before a New National Party disciplinary hearing on Wednesday.
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/ 14 January 2003
Police rejected reports on Tuesday that it was investigating large-scale gun-running to Iraq by a Finnish fugitive extradited to his home country last month
Western Cape police confiscated a huge haul of semi-automatic assault rifles at a warehouse facility near Cape Town International Airport on Wednesday night.
Foreign tourists have spent about R4-billion over the December holiday period, providing a significant boost to Western Cape province’s economy, according to Mike Fabricius, CEO of Western Cape Tourism.
In certain circles it has become old-fashioned to talk about race and class as categories through which to make sense of the behaviour of people around the world in general, and in South Africa in particular.
While the road death toll since December 1 mounted to 1 236 by Monday, the Democratic Alliance demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Dullah Omar, or his removal from office.
Road accidents had claimed the lives of 1 204 people in South Africa since December 1, Arrive Alive reported on Sunday. However, the figure was expected to rise as some reports from remote police stations were still outstanding.
A man charged with allegedly helping devise a right-wing plot to overthrow the government, was freed on R20 000 bail in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
How many of the year’s events can you remember?<br>
1 Who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature?<br>
2 Which KwaZulu-Natal mayor said Cape Town could "keep [the] moffies and gays"?
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
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/ 24 December 2002
About six months ago I was invited to the University of Pretoria to participate in a debate with Xolela Mangcu, the drector of the Steve Biko Foundation, on why race (and ethnic) relations seemed to be more contentious as the transition progressed.
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/ 15 December 2002
The Pan Africanist Congress is to intensify campaigns for poverty eradication through the sharing of the country’s wealth ahead of the 2004 elections.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
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/ 13 December 2002
Supporters stood at attention and sang the old Transvaal Republic’s anthem as eight alleged rightwingers appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Thursday afternoon on charges of high treason, terrorism, and sabotage.
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/ 15 November 2002
Oom Krisjan is a regular recipient of important Western Cape government information via e-mail. This week his attention was drawn to one particular missive from provincial Housing MEC Nomatyala Hangana.
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/ 8 November 2002
The seventh annual Southern African International Film and Television Market (Sithengi) will this year, for the first time, hold a children’s festival, writes Maria Kurian.
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/ 20 September 2002
The Cabinet’s April 17 statement on HIV/Aids policy — widely hailed as a crucial change of heart — is looking increasingly threadbare. Was it, as some maintain, merely a tactical manoeuvre to deflect international condemnation in advance of the G8 meeting in Canada.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development is the biggest thing to hit Jozi since the Jameson Raid — considering Krugersdorp and Sandton are about equidistant from the city centre — and next week’s shindig has driven the citizenry even crazier than usual.
Oom Krisjan has noticed that those who kept the red flag flying here have been rather quiet of late. In fact, there’s been a suspicion that they’ve all turned into creditcard-carrying communists, what with central committee member Jeff Radebe being in the vanguard of the privatisation.
The news that Snuki Zikalala is leaving the SABC for pastures new was greeted with much regret in the Dorsbult. We regulars have missed his enthusiastic mangling of all the official languages since the former labour reporter was kicked upstairs to become an executive editor…
Controversial German businessman Jurgen Harksen is to appear before a commission of inquiry to — perhaps — tell all about his dealings with former Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel.
REVIEW: Heaven Forbid by Christopher Hope (Macmillan).
Heaven Forbid represents a deepening of Hope’s vision of apartheid South Africa, writes John Higgins.
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/ 12 January 2002
Police raided the homes of several rightwingers on Friday in the wake of recent bombings blamed on the far right and threats of more violence.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) holds its first national conference in five years at Stellenbosch University next week — with elections likely to indicate whether the left or "right-wing" of the movement holds sway.