The Director General in President Thabo Mbeki’s office, Reverend Frank Chikane, says he now knows the identity of police officers who poisoned him in the late 1980s. In a statement from the Presidency on Monday, it noted that Chikane, a former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, had revealed on Sunday ”that he now has information about his poisoning”.
The target set three years ago to extend the child-support grants to 3,2-million children by March this year has already been exceeded by 300 000, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) reports on its website. A report on the state of social grants appears under the president’s regular column and notes that by June this year over 3,5-million children were registered as beneficiaries.
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/ 22 September 2006
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Friday accused the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of abusing its powers and violating his rights in its push to prosecute him on fraud and corruption charges. Speaking during a live televised media conference in Johannesburg, he said the NPA, through leaks to the media, had created a "culture of Zuma-bashing".
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/ 21 September 2006
Incumbent Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha was re-elected by 42 votes on Thursday, the Electoral Institute of South Africa announced. Madisha polled 1 194 votes to his challenger Zanoxolo Wayile’s tally of 1 152.
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/ 21 September 2006
The resolution to keep intact the tripartite alliance — led by the African National Congress — has been passed by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, but not without questions being raised from the floor about whether working-class interests were being fostered.
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/ 21 September 2006
China is not exactly the flavour of the month at the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) national congress, but ironically its textile-exporting muscle is amply demonstrated in the entrance hall of the Gallagher Estate venue. The four-day congress ends on Thursday, and various businesses have informal stands in the entrance hall advertising their services.
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/ 20 September 2006
The L&R Consortium, which has British, South African and Dubai elements, has been named by Transnet as the successful bidder for the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A) in Cape Town. The bid came in at R7,04-billion. Among leading South African black business leaders involved in the project are Vincent Maphai and Hassan Adams.
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/ 19 September 2006
Congress of South African Trade Unions congress-goers wildly cheered the Treatment Action Campaign’s Zackie Achmat on Tuesday when he called for the removal from office of South African Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Achmat spoke shortly after Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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/ 19 September 2006
Members of three trade unions surrounded Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) congress delegates with textile lines made up of 40 000 pieces of cloth, representing the number of workers who had lost their jobs in the South African industry in the last two years.
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/ 19 September 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has reported in its detailed income statement a loss of R842 153 rand in the year to December 2005, down from a R5,4-million profit in 2004. This is reported in its treasurer’s report to the Cosatu congress being held at Midrand. Its books were audited by Deloitte and Touche.