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ANC PRESS STATEMENTS

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From: AdrianaStuijt

ANC National Health Summit will be mainly closed to the news media

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ANC PRESS STATEMENTS OCTOBER 3 2001 -   

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From: "ancdip" <ancdip@wn.apc.org>
To: "ANC Press Statements" <anclist@wn.apc.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:02:36 +0200
Organization: ANC
Subject: [Anclist] ANC STATEMENT ON TONY YENGENI'S CASE

ANC STATEMENT ON TONY YENGENI'S CASE
Issued by: African National Congress
3 October 2001

The African National Congress has noted the appearance of Comrade Tony
Yengeni, member of the ANC National Executive Committee(NEC) in the Cape
Magistrate court this morning, facing charges of corruption, fraud,
statutory perjury and forgery.

The ANC recognises that South Africa is a democratic country with a
constitution that recognises the independence of the judiciary, thus, the
law must take its course. However, as the ANC we believe in the principle of
presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

Should there be any truth in the allegations against Comrade Yengeni, the
ANC will not hesitate to take action.

For more information contact Smuts Ngonyama at 082 569 2061

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2 From: "ancdip" <ancdip@wn.apc.org>
To: "ANC Press Statements" <anclist@wn.apc.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:03:47 +0200
Organization: ANC
Subject: [Anclist] ANC HOLDS MEETINGS WITH MPLA AND FRELIMO
ANC HOLDS MEETINGS WITH MPLA AND FRELIMO
Issued by: African National Congress
3 October 2001

The ANC Secretary General, Cde Kgalema Motlanthe will lead an ANC
delegation, consisting of Mavivi Myaka-yaka Manzini and Peter Mokaba and
Susan Shabangu that will meet MPLA tomorrow at 3pm in Johannesburg. The
objectives of the meeting will be the sharing of information about the
current developments in Angola, including the peace process , the impact of
the ongoing war in the country and in the region.This meeting will also seek
to strengthen party relations between the two organizations.

The MPLA delegation will be led by its Secretary General, Comrade Joao
Lourenco.Bilaterals between the ANC and FRELIMO had long been held.

Later on, the ANC will then meet both MPLA and FREL

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From: AdrianaStuijt

Democracy ANC-style:

• "CLIQUE" INSIDE ANC MAKES DEMOCRATIC DEBATE IMPOSSIBLE: COSATU
  JOHANNESBURG December 2 2002 Sapa - The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Monday slammed what it called "a small but loud clique" within the African National Congress that made debate in the tripartite alliance impossible.
• ANC TO MEET IFP OVER KZN ROW
  JOHANNESBURG December 2 2002 Sapa - The African National Congress' leadership will meet with the Inkatha Freedom Party on Tuesday to get clarity on why two ANC MECs were sacked from the KwaZulu-Natal cabinet, the ANC's National Working Committee said on Monday.
  http://www.anc.org.za/briefing/index.html
• ULTRA-LEFT TAG DISTRACTS FROM REAL PROBLEMS: SACP
  JOHANNESBURG December 2 2002 Sapa - The SA Communist Party said on Monday that accusations of "ultra-leftism" would merely divert the attention of the tripartite alliance away from urgent problems such as poverty, unemployment and HIV/Aids.
• ULTRA-RIGHT TAG CAUSED ARREST ON TRUMPED UP CHARGES -- CLAIM
  GAYE DERBY-LEWIS - COURT APPEARANCE 
• PRETORIA December 2 2002 Sapa - Gaye Derby-Lewis described on Monday as "ridiculous" her arrest last week on charges of illegally possessing firearms and ammunition - claiming she had licences for everything.  The wife of imprisoned rightwing murderer Clive Derby-Lewis, said during a brief court appearance on Monday that she has been arrested on trumnped-up firearm charges.
• She told the court that the police had searched her home in spite of having no legal search warrant last Friday.
• Derby-Lewis (62) said she has no links with the so-called Boeremag which claims responsibility for 12 bomb attacks in South Africa over the past four weeks.
• She said police also illegally confiscated five licensed firearms - three of which are valuable (but unusable) antique Anglo-Boer war weapons exhibited at her home.
• She said police also interfered in her civil rights by refusing to let her find her firearm license during the midnight arrest.

Hunger in South Africa

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From: Frederick Malherbe

22-m South Africans go to bed hungry every night --

July 23, 2002 -- The Mail and Guardian quotes Saliem Fakir, South African programme coordinator for the IUCN-World Conservation Union, as saying that due to soaring food prices inside South Africa, about 22-million people go to bed hungry every night. Many millions of poor South Africans now eat only one meal a week.

 

Food-gathering existence for millions:

Staple foods such maize and other cereals have more than doubled in price these past six months inside South Africa, which has already exported 2-million tonnes of emergency food aid to famine-struck neighbouring coountries. With 16% of South Africans now so poor that average poor households must survive on R144 a month, these millions of people have returned to a hunter-gatherer existence in Africa's natural environment to find food.

 

It is estimated by the land and agrarian studies programme of the University of the Western Cape that these "natural food resources" gleaned from the African veld represent up to R5,000 a year in value to these households' income. Most have no or little formal income.

 

Feed South African: many eat only one meal a week...
Rocketing staple food prices have forced many non-governmental aid agencies to back food aid for needy communities, says Lisa Jehosefat, the founder of Feed South African, which deals with malnutrition in South Africa.

 

Rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape are the worst hit, but hunger also stalks urban areas. Feeding centres in Alexandra and Soweto, two of the biggest townships in Johannesburg, regularly encounter severe cases of malnutrition.
Jehosefat says her organisation deals with many people who eat only one meal a week.

 

African Children Feeding Scheme: 11,000 children only get a daily peanut butter sandwich
Rejoice Nkutha runs a programme in Gauteng called the African Children Feeding Scheme, which feeds 11,000 children a day. She says rising food prices have devastated the feeding scheme and her team can no longer afford to give the children food parcels. "They only receive pe

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From: AdrianaStuijt

Farmworkers get higher minimum wages from March -

• Farmworkers, although housed, fed and educated for free, also earn the lowest wages in South Africa in many regions -- as little as R100 a month in some low-income areas. However, from March 2003, farm workers must be paid a new minimum wage - pegged at R800 a month near "wealthier urban areas"  and R650 a month in poorer rural areas.
• Farm workers working 27 hours a week or less will be entitled to R4.10 an hour in high-income areas and R3.33 an hour in lower-income regions.

Mokgadi Pela of Business Day reports on December 03 2002 that the 30,000-member agricultural union for commercial farmers, Agri SA yesterday already poured cold water over the ANC's new minimum wage plan.

Agri-SA warned that the plan would "dangerously overstretch agriculture's wage account, which already stood at R9 billion annually."

 

The result would be that farmers would have to lay off farm workers because they could no longer afford them --  or raise food prices to even higher levels just to make up for their higher wage costs.

 

Many farmers are warning that forcing them to pay up to eight times more in monthly wages would also mean that it would cost eight times more to produce the nation's food. The inevitable result -- higher food prices -- could mean even more suffering for millions of poor people, already hard-hit by South Africa's increasing food prices.

Japie Grobler, the (pro-ANC) Agri SA's president did not make all this very clear in his usual waffle-speak. He said that  "the two-tier wage system would create practical problems for farmers especially in those areas falling into both higher- and lower-wage areas." He also commented that "while the retention and expansion of job opportunities are a priority, this determination will have a counterproductive effect."

 

Translated into normal-speak: farmers will have to start laying off farm workers.

WOMEN OF COMPASSION...

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From: Wotknott

WOMEN OF COMPASSION or CLOTHES HORSES EXTRORDINAIRE?

 

As a mere male, I know that I am now treading on dangerous ground, however,  I have to ask: "What is wrong with our sisters?"

 

Is it a case of sheer selfish vanity on behalf of our dear heartless womenfolk? Is vanity more important than compassion and protest against barbaric and heinous practices?

 

To protest against the stoning of women in Nigeria, under the barbaric Sharia law, the United Nations called for a boycott of the forthcoming Miss World Contest to be held in Nigeria... http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/West_Africa/0,1113,2-11-998_1255781,00.html

 

Although, Miss Belgium, Miss Denmark, Miss France, Miss Ivory Coast, Miss Kenya, Miss Norway, Miss South Africa, Miss Switzerland and Miss Togo have withdrawn from the contest the rest of the sisters (more than 100 in total) are still going to compete in this year's pageant.

 

I must ask once again, what is wrong with the sisters, they are their own worst enemies...

 

11/11/2002 08:24  - (SA)
Miss World to go ahead
 
Abuja - About 100 of the world's most beautiful women are due to arrive in Nigeria on Monday to take part in the Miss World pageant, despite controversy about the death sentences hanging over two young mothers.

 

The organisers of the event, billed as the world's most watched television spectacle, are confident that a threat by some contestants to boycott the event due to Nigeria's use of Islamic Shari'a law has evaporated.

 

Senior Nigerian officials have insisted that 31-year-old Amina Lawal will never be stoned to death, despite a sentence imposed earlier this year by a Shari'a court in the mainly Muslim north of the country.

 

Miss World president Julia Morley and most of the invited beauty queens have accepted these assurances and are determined to forge on with a month-long programme of events culminating in December 7's closing ceremony.

 

Some beauty queens who announced boycott plans have changed their minds, others have been replaced with more cooperative competitors, organisers say.

 

'No person shall be condemned to death by stoning'

 

But Hauwa Ibrahim, a lawyer representing Lawal and several other Shari'a defendants, told reporters on Sunday that the federal government had not yet done anything to help her client or to tackle the Shari'a controversy.

 

On Saturday, Miss World organisers released a statement from Nigeria's junior foreign minister Dubem Onyia which went further than ever before in promising to protect Lawal even if her appeal fails.

 

"The Nigerian government shall exude its constitutional powers to thwart any negative ruling, which is deemed injurious to its people. We restate that no person shall be condemned to death by stoning," he said.

 

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From: AdrianaStuijt

Frail Afrikaner man, 82, strangled in Krugersdorp attack, while defenceless wife forced to watch while gagged, tied up
December 03 2002 - A 69-year-old Krugersdorp wife on Tuesday morning helplessly watched two attackers strangle her 82-year-old husband to death, police said.

Spokesperson Captain Paula Nothnagel said Jacobus Louis le Grange and his wife were asleep at 3.30am in their, Longford Street, Kenmare, home when the two killers gained access by breaking a window.

The murderers then attacked the sleeping couple, with one tying up the wife with a nylon rope while the other strangled her husband.

Having slayed the husband for no apparent reason they then demanded cash and arms from the traumatised woman.

They also gagged her with a piece of material. Nothnagel said the woman gave the thugs her full co-operation.

After ransacking the house, the killers fled into the night with a gun, household appliances, cash and jewellery.

Before leaving they tied up the woman with electrical wire, binding her from her feet to her upper body. They also gagged her with a piece of material, cutting a hole to allow her to breathe.

• Nothnagel said anyone who could assist in tracking down the killers could contact investigating officer Inspector Gary Pretorius at 082-411-0067 or 011-760-3189. - Sapa
• http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=qw1038916440990B265&set_id=1

Teen admits dragging murdered girls to field
December 03 2002 - By Monica Langanpardad - An accused in the Umbumbulu triple murder case has admitted dragging the bodies of the three women into a nearby sugar cane field after they were shot.

The 16-year-old juvenile, who cannot be named, said in an affidavit before the Durban regional court on Monday that although he did not shoot the women, he helped his co-accused move their bodies.

The teenager and his co-accused, Koogan Thavar, 18, and Nevillen Davids, 21,

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