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Press Review, South Africa
20. March 2009
President Declares April 22 a Public Holiday
President Kgalema Motlanthe on Thursday declared April 22 a public holiday. This is the day on which the country goes to the polls in a general election. "The declaration was made in...
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20. March 2009
Mbete Urges South Africans to Buy 2010 Tickets
Deputy President Baleka Mbete on Thursday urged South Africans and Africans to buy tickets for the upcoming Confederations Cup and 2010 World Cup. Mbete was speaking after an inter-ministerial...
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19. March 2009
Industrial zone signs up to sell biodiesel to Germany
THE East London Industrial Development Zone (Elidz) had secured a long-term contract to export between 70% and 90% of the output from a planned 400000-ton -a-year biodiesel plant in the Eastern Cape...
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19. March 2009
Inflation pushes up Gautrain costs by R300m
THE cost of the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link has shot up by R300m because of a spike in the country’s inflation in the past couple of years, says the Gauteng Management Agency, which is tasked with...
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17. March 2009
SA-led research uncovers secrets of the stars
Scientists say they have discovered exciting new evidence of the way stars, born in massive clouds of hot gas, settle into the patterns that form galaxies. The discovery of "streams of stars" in...
|+| [more]Politics, Press Review
17. March 2009
Africa ‘should not be ignored’
AFRICAN leaders yesterday urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown not to allow the global economic crisis to dilute the commitments made on spending to developing nations. The African leaders,...
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17. March 2009
Voters are also churchgoers
Politics and religion have never been separate, writes Sibongakonke Shoba. THE Nationalists are pushing God around like a Casspir,” poet and former political prisoner Breyten Breytenbach once...
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