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/ 22 September 2005
South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance is taking the Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (PetroSA) to court because R11-million of taxpayers’ money has still not been accounted for relating to the Oilgate scandal, the party’s chief whip Douglas Gibson said on Thursday.
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/ 22 September 2005
Apartheid’s legacy remains tenacious and despite a huge public investment in housing in the 10 years of democracy, the number of informal settlements has grown substantially, South Africa’s national Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Thursday.
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/ 22 September 2005
Just hours after Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula told the nation that burglaries at commercial and residential properties were down, his own party’s caucus was bemoaning the fact that there had been ”a spate of burglaries at parliamentary residential villages” in Cape Town.
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/ 21 September 2005
Contact crimes — apart from rape and indecent assault — are down in the financial year 2004/05, according to the South African Police Service. The report, issued on Wednesday, indicates that the murder rate is down to 40,3 per 100 000 of the population.
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/ 8 September 2005
No changes to South Africa’s floor-crossing legislation — which allows a window period for members of the National Assembly and the nine legislatures to switch political allegiances — are envisaged, Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Johnny de Lange said on Thursday.
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/ 8 September 2005
Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats has won its first municipal by-election since the party was established two years ago. The ID snatched the seat in Vryburg in the North West province from the African National Congress, which won it in the general municipal election in 2000.
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/ 7 September 2005
The chairperson of the watchdog standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), Francois Beukman, has resigned, he announced on Wednesday. Beukman formally joined the African National Congress at the start of the defection period for National Assembly members.
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/ 7 September 2005
South Africa will not unilaterally pay back Zimbabwe’s loan to the International Monetary Fund, as the country ”is not South Africa’s 10th province”, says South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Addressing a briefing at Parliament on Wednesday, she said the matter of the loan offer ”hasn’t moved”.
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/ 7 September 2005
Not all HIV-positive South African National Defence Force members are on anti-retrovirals, says Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota. He told Democratic Alliance MP Moulana Sayedali-Shah on Tuesday that only HIV positive members with a CD4 count of less than 200 or members displaying symptoms of an HIV/Aids defining disease, were eligible for anti-retroviral medication.
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/ 6 September 2005
Parliamentary veteran and former chairperson of the watchdog standing committee on public accounts Gavin Woods has crossed the floor from the Inkatha Freedom Party to the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco) led by Ziba Jiyane.