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/ 18 November 2005
The Democratic Alliance has changed its selection procedures for local government candidates in Cape Town after discrepancies in membership lists were discovered in a number of branches in the city. Branches send delegates to an electoral college in accordance with membership size. But a recent federal audit of the party’s structures found variations paid for by other members to boost numbers.
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/ 17 November 2005
South Africa’s moral-regeneration movement is about positive values and not only about fighting corruption, says Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. She said the movement — previously headed by Jacob Zuma — ”was established as a partnership of all of South Africans to promote positive values in our country”.
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/ 10 November 2005
South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni deserves support for his position that remaining exchange controls should be abolished, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance. Mboweni said on Wednesday that South Africa’s remaining foreign-exchange controls have become "purposeless".
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/ 9 November 2005
MPs on Wednesday were warned that the Gautrain rapid rail project may be suffering from "optimism bias" where the project may pan out to be far more expensive — and less popular in the eyes of the consumers — than the project planners envisaged.
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/ 7 November 2005
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and Western Cape Congress of South African Trade Unions regional secretary Tony Ehrenreich have taken each other on over the demands of the modern South African state — and how best to run the economy — in a new magazine, <i>Mindshift</i>.
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/ 4 November 2005
South Africa’s final codes of good practice on black economic empowerment (BEE) — released this week — will add "a whole new regulatory layer" to the South African industry, said official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon in his regular Friday internet column, <i>SA Today</i>.
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/ 3 November 2005
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel says the tax revenue lost through avoidance schemes "clearly runs into billions" of rand and the South African authorities are fine-tuning a mechanism to close existing gaps. He was speaking at the release of a South African Revenue Services discussion paper on tax avoidance.
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/ 1 November 2005
The Diamonds Amendment Bill would not introduce nationalisation in the diamond industry, Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy Lulu Xingwana said on Tuesday. The Bill was passed by the National Assembly with objections noted from the official opposition Democratic Alliance, the African Christian Democratic Party and the Freedom Front Plus.
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/ 1 November 2005
South Africa’s contribution to the technological development of the pebble-bed modular reactor has been described as ”important” in the context of finding clean alternative fuels by the new British high commissioner to South Africa, Paul Boateng. He was speaking at a Cape Town Press Club function on the critical issue of global warming.
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/ 28 October 2005
South African firms should be given tax cuts designed to increase employment for a period of five years, says official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. For this period, employers should be given tax deductions of 150% of the first R2 000 per month of new employees’ salaries.