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/ 23 November 2006
It is "vitally important" to acknowledge that provincial underspending of capital budgets among provinces had been on a declining trend over the past three years, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Thursday. Three years ago –- in 2002 and 2003 — provinces underspent their capital budgets by R1,1-billion, noted the minister.
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/ 23 November 2006
Driver’s and learner’s licence applications will go national from January next year, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe has divulged in response to a parliamentary question. Answering the Democratic Alliance’s Manie van Dyk, the minister noted that his department does not currently administer the booking process.
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/ 21 November 2006
South African state-owned enterprises are overall in "a good state" although performance has been uneven in the past financial year, the chairperson of the public enterprises portfolio committee reported on Tuesday. Yunus Carrim also argued that the government was correct to keep these enterprises in state hands.
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/ 21 November 2006
Interrogation of the financial viability of the businesses falling under the state arms company, Denel, may expose some skeletons, its CEO, Shaun Liebenberg, has warned MPs. Liebenberg said that as "the interrogation of the financial viability of the businesses deepened, we must accept that skeletons will come out of the closet".
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/ 20 November 2006
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is scheduled to present his budget speech and introduce the Division of Revenue Bill on Wednesday February 21 next year, according to a draft parliamentary programme. While some MPs are still in Cape Town, the bulk of members have returned to their constituencies.
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/ 20 November 2006
South Africa’s Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has stuck by his call for a basic income grant in South Africa but he declined to attach a monthly figure that would apply. Asked at a briefing whether he was personally thinking of a R100-a-month grant across the board, he joked that the media wanted to crucify him.
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/ 17 November 2006
The ruling African National Congress has an ”amazing self-belief” that because it demands a majority among the electorate, it has a divine right to do ”what it wants, when it likes”, official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon charged on Friday in his regular internet column.
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/ 16 November 2006
The arrest of businessman Glen Agliotti clearly shows police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi ”in a good light”, Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Johnny de Lange said on Thursday. Selebi, who has tried to downplay his friendship with Agliotti after initially saying that Agliotti was ”my friend, finish and klaar”.
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/ 15 November 2006
The Presidency received the Donen Commission report into the Iraq oil-for-food programme on November 6 and was studying the report, president Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. Mbeki said this in reply to a question from official opposition leader Tony Leon in the National Assembly on Wednesday.
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/ 15 November 2006
The final issues are being sorted out between Alcan, the Canadian aluminium company, and South Africa over the building of a smelter at Coega in the Eastern Cape, Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa said on Tuesday. Briefing the parliamentary media, the minister said his government had been "in touch" with Alcan "quite a lot in the last two weeks".