Press Review
04. March 2009
GOVERNMENT will take over farms that were allocated to black people under a land redistribution programme but are not being productively used, Agriculture Minister Lulu Xingwana said today. “I have...
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04. March 2009
THE government is set to take a strong stance against companies that produce emissions which are harmful to the environment, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said...
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03. March 2009
SA’S official jobless rate has fallen, Statistics SA said today as it released the Labour Force Survey for the fourth quarter of 2008. This was mainly due to the fact that the construction industry...
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03. March 2009
THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) will host southern Africa’s biggest military exercise in September, involving 11 countries including Zimbabwe. The exercise with other armies from the...
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03. March 2009
March 2009 (Berlin: 6 March, Frankfurt: 7 March) now sees the second part of the musical œuvre urbain "into..." being performed. Composers Luke Bedford, Jörg Birkenkötter, Lars Petter Hagen, and...
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02. March 2009
ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu yesterday warned that those who were “drunk with power” would eventually be punished. Tutu last year threatened not to vote and warned that the ruling African National...
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02. March 2009
SA’s trade deficit swelled to a record R17,4bn in January as exports plummeted, showing that the global recession was starting to take a heavy toll on the country’s economy. The news on Friday...
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