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Masondo visits Alexandra Renewal Project

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Johannesburg - Johannesburg Executive Mayor Amos Masondo will this morning visit the Alexandra Renewal Project, which recently won an award from United Nations Habitat for successfully revitalizing an urban environment.

RSR dismisses nepotism allegations

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Pretoria - The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has described the allegations of nepotism and irregular appointment of certain staff by their Chief Executive Officer Nkululeko Poya as factually incorrect and without substance.

SA welcomes overhaul of IMF lending framework

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Pretoria - The Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has welcomed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board's approval of a major overhaul of the IMF's lending framework.

PPI comes in at 7.3% in February

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Pretoria - The Producer Price Index in February 2009 has come in at 7.3 percent year on year, which is 1.9 percent lower than January's figure of 9.2 percent year on year, Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) announced on Thursday.

Successful off-shore environmental vessel returns

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Cape Town - South Africa's off-shore environmental protection vessel, the Sarah Baartman, returned to Cape Town Harbour on Thursday from a four-nation transboundary fisheries patrol in South African, Tanzanian, Mozambican and Kenyan waters.

SA welcomes OECD report, notes concerns

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Midrand - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has welcomed the latest OECD report on South Africa, which states that although strides have been made, the country is not fully reaching its potential.

OR Tambo Intl Airport to multi-use terminals

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Johannesburg - The OR Tambo International Airport will from 1 April start to multi-use terminals in order to process international and domestic flights interchangeably.

24 paramedics graduate to help out in 2010

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Klerksdorp - The emergency services in the North West has received an extra boost with the graduation of 24 students from the emergency care technician training programme from the North West Emergency Medical Rescue Services (EMRS) College.