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/ 15 November 2006
The legislative provision for floor crossing — defection by elected national, provincial and local government representatives — was still in place, Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi said on Wednesday. He was responding to a question whether the floor-crossing mechanism would still be in place next September.
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/ 7 November 2006
South Africa is no longer just a political miracle, it is also now a serious economic growth contender in the league of "the Chinas, the Indias, the Russias and the Brazils of this world", Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told business leaders gathered in Sandton on Tuesday.
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/ 6 November 2006
Mo Shaik, brother of fraud convict Schabir Shaik, has taken the helm at the Nkobi Group, the firm that has a key stake in South Africa’s arms deal. This was confirmed by Mo, who was previously a senior official in the Department of Foreign Affairs, at a media conference held at the Cape Talk radio offices in Cape Town on Monday.
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/ 3 November 2006
The deal brokered in Cape Town by Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi this week was little more than a face-saving mechanism for the African National Congress, acting Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Kraai van Niekerk said on Friday in DA leader Tony Leon’s internet column.
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/ 2 November 2006
The Revenue Laws Amendment Bill introduced to the National Assembly on Thursday provides for complete tax relief on imports by Fifa-related organisations in the run-up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Introducing the measure, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said these organisations could import inventory for sale at designated sites.
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/ 1 November 2006
The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the city of Cape Town has noted and welcomed the agreement reached between Western Cape local government and housing minister Richard Dyantyi and Cape Town mayor Helen Zille, saying it should reduce tension and instability in the city.
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/ 31 October 2006
The impact of the second national operator, Neotel, was likely to be felt by Christmas, said South African Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri. Answering a question from African National Congress MP Elliott Sibiya in the National Council of Provinces on Tuesday afternoon, she noted that it had already been launched at the end of August.
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/ 31 October 2006
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille and provincial local government and housing minister Richard Dyantyi have reached a compromise over the future of the city government in the Mother City, it was announced at a press conference called by national Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi on Tuesday.
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/ 27 October 2006
Regional integration is rightly being pursued in the Southern African Development Community as it is a critical instrument to boost economic growth and raise living standards — but it has to be sustainable, says South African President Thabo Mbeki. In his regular Friday internet column, <i><a href="http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/" target="_blank" class="standardtext">ANC Today</a></i>, the president said regional integration in the developing world "has all too often been a graveyard of failed expectations".
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/ 27 October 2006
South Africa’s opposition parties, which kowtow to the ruling party, have only themselves to blame ”if the deadening hand of a de facto one-party state threatens” to encircle the country, says official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon. In his regular Friday online column, SA Today, the DA leader Leon slammed Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats.