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Sacu industrialisation plan to target eight sectors

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Cape Town - The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) is developing a regional framework for cross-border co-operation on industrialisation, which targets eight sectors in which the member countries can co-operate.

Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade admits poll defeat

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Pretoria -Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has admitted defeat in the presidential run-off held on Sunday, and has congratulated his rival former Prime Minister Macky Sall.

Hu Jintao pays Zuma courtesy call

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Pretoria - Chinese President Hu Jintao paid a courtesy call to President Jacob Zuma on the side-lines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul.

Truck driver not asked to plead

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Malalane - The truck driver, who has been charged with the deaths of 25 Mpumalanga farmworkers, was not asked to plead to culpable homicide when he appeared in the Malalane Periodical Court on Monday.

Churches welcome GFIP but want more talks

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Pretoria - Religious leaders have welcomed the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) and saw it as an important infrastructure project that would improve South Africa's economic activity as well as the lives of the people using the highways.

Public urged to comment on Draft AgriBEE Sector Code

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Pretoria-The AgriBEE Charter Council which is overseeing the transformation agenda of the agricultural sector is urging interested stakeholders and individuals to comment on the Draft AgriBEE Sector Code.

Govt recognises the importance of aquaculture

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Pretoria- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, says government recognises the importance of aquaculture and the role it will play in sustaining production of food fish.

Labour dept weighs in on fatal Mpuma crash

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Pretoria - The Department of Labour has described the crash between a goods train and a truck transporting workers in Hectorspruit, Mpumalanga which left 26 people dead as "horrific and tragic".