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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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18. March 2009
Peace Caravan punts World Cup
South Africa's national Department of Sport and Recreation has partnered with the Pretoria-based Youth Development through Football and other NGOs to form the Peace Caravan, an initiative that will...
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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...
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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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17. March 2009
Remember Sharpeville, 21 March 1960
The Sharpeville Massacre is remembered annually on 21 March - Human Rights Day. In order to pay tribute to those that lost their lives on this day, it is essential that we have an...
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