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/ 18 January 2006
Former South African president FW de Klerk and former deputy president Jacob Zuma are to be among honoured guests at the official opening of Parliament and the State of the Nation address. This emerged at a press conference at Parliament on Wednesday addressed by the presiding officers.
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/ 13 January 2006
South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka went to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on holiday, her office said on Friday. ”She did not travel to the UAE on a fact-finding mission, nor did she go there on half business, half holiday, and she did not go there to study crane-building businesses,” an adviser said.
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/ 13 January 2006
The future of Western Cape Democratic Alliance leader Theuns Botha hangs in the balance after a bitter struggle over the mayoral candidate, Helen Zille. Only a win for his party in Cape Town and other Western Cape mayoral races in March will save his political bacon. While the party is now focused on getting Zille’s campaign into top gear the signs of a bloody battle ahead remain.
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/ 11 January 2006
South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has requested in a letter that President Thabo Mbeki take action over what it described as ”the possible abuse of state resources” by Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. It is estimated that a holiday — described by DA MP Gareth Morgan as ”a gravy plane holiday” — to the United Arab Emirates in December cost about  000.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has committed the second 10 years of democracy to the achievement of high rates of economic growth and development. The ANC, which came to power in 1994, has targeted the advancement of skills among blacks and the beneficiation of South Africa’s raw materials as key elements of its 10-year economic transformation plan.
The number of shack dwellings in South Africa rose from 1,45-million in 1996 to 2,14-million in 2003, according to Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu. That was 417 new shacks a day on average between 2001 and 2003 and 210 shacks per day on average in the five years between 1996 and 2001.
<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>The decision to allow former deputy president Jacob Zuma to campaign for the African National Congress in the upcoming local government poll is "deeply hypocritical", said the Democratic Alliance on Thursday. It "confirms once again that the governing party has thrown away its moral compass," the DA said.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is ”confident” of winning the metropolitan city of Cape Town in March, the only metropolitan area in the country that eluded it electorally in the last municipal poll in 2000, says the party’s deputy secretary general, Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele.
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/ 29 December 2005
South Africa’s rail utility, Spoornet, has already been paid R63 324 by a private security company for thefts which were carried out after the luxury Blue Train and Shosholoza Meyl crash between De Aar and Beaufort West in the Karoo on Wednesday October 26.
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/ 13 December 2005
The South African government says an investment climate survey — a joint Department of Trade and Industry and World Bank initiative — has provided encouraging information as well as challenges as the country prepares to embark on accelerated growth.