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'Our timing was flawed in electricity crisis'

Cape Argus: "President Thabo Mbeki has admitted that the the government got its timing wrong managing the electricity crisis.

Public Enterprise Minister Alec Erwin told a media briefing in Pretoria on Friday: 'The decision to charge Eskom with the responsibility to embark on a large and urgent build programme in 2004 was in hindsight late. The president has accepted that this government got its timing wrong.'"

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Kate Kainja passes away

Nyasa Times "Minister of Women and Child Development Kate Kainja-Kaluluma has passed away in United Kingdom. “Indeed Hon Kate Kainja Kaluluma has died,” confirmed family friends in London. The 57-year-old minister was admitted to a North England hospital – York Hospital. Diplomatic sources at Malawi High Commission in London have said arrangements are being made to send her remains to Malawi. Kainja who was Dedza South West Constituency parliamentarian flew to United Kingdom for medical attention after a long-illness. She is survived by a husband, Emanuel Kaluluma and three children."