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/ 26 October 2006
South Africa’s Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s condition is ”not too serious”, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Thursday. He said the minister’s condition is improving and it is expected she will be released from hospital in the next ”couple of days”. Asked what she is suffering from, Maseko said it was up to the minister to communicate the details of her condition.
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/ 26 October 2006
The South African Cabinet has given its approval to the proposal to create six regional electricity distributors (REDs) which will be established as public entities under the auspices of the Electricity Distribution Industry. This was confirmed on Thursday — after the Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday.
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/ 25 October 2006
South Africa’s nine provinces are to receive an additional R28,2-billion over the next three years, according to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement. Provincial government is projected to get R178,3-billion this year — 2006/07 — including R150,7-billion from the equitable share and R27,5-billion in conditional grants.
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/ 25 October 2006
The 2007 medium-term expenditure framework provides for R9,5-billion to be spent on 2010 World Cup stadiums and their supporting infrastructure, raising the total contribution from the national fiscus to R14,9-billion, the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement reported on Wednesday.
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/ 23 October 2006
South Africa’s Department of Public Enterprises intends to create a broadband infrastructure company — called Broadband InfraCo — based on the long-distance fibre-optic network created by power parastatal Eskom and transport parastatal Transnet, says Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin.
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/ 23 October 2006
The multiparty coalition that rules Cape Town — led by the official opposition Democratic Alliance — is to hold a march through the Mother City’s streets on Thursday to protest against attempts by the provincial-ruling African National Congress to reconfigure the city governance system.
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/ 18 October 2006
South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson Jakes Gerwel came under fire from ruling African National Congress (ANC) members of Parliament for not attending a meeting with the National Assembly public enterprises portfolio committee on Wednesday.
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/ 17 October 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel on Tuesday said the salaries of municipal managers ”in aggregate” were ”not awfully high”. He was speaking at a media conference after the release of the Local Government Budgets and Expenditure Review at Parliament.
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/ 17 October 2006
There are now nearly 7,4-million vehicles on South Africa’s roads, with the most acute congestion in Gauteng, where there were nearly 2,9-million vehicles as at the end of March this year, according to the Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review. Commenting on the document, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said the roads and transport section of the review ”makes very interesting reading”.
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/ 13 October 2006
The whole of South Africa, and South African President Thabo Mbeki’s own parliamentary caucus, "is transfixed" by a crisis that has planed value off the rand, propelled shock-waves through investors at home and abroad and all but ground government delivery to a halt — but Mbeki has, with "masterly indifference", replaced his head more deeply into the sand, says Tony Leon.