A transformation plan for the judiciary — to make it more representative of women and black people — is scheduled to be put to the Cabinet by August this year, Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula and Deputy Minister of Correctional Services Cheryl Gillwald said on Thursday.
The South African government has reported that 90 000 people confessed to welfare grant fraud under an amnesty offer that ended in March. This figure emerges from a report delivered by Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang — chairperson of the social cluster of ministers — on Thursday.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Thursday she does not remember endorsing Aids dissident Matthias Rath’s Dr Rath Health Foundation — but said that the foundation’s focus on nutrition in fighting the disease complements the government’s programme to fight Aids.
There is "no precise date" for the start-up of the second national operator (SNO) — which will compete with the semi-privatised state telephone operator Telkom, says Minister of Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin. He said such matters as the shareholders’ agreement and business plan are being discussed.
The Cape High Court has ruled that political parties in South Africa should not, as a matter of principle, be compelled to disclose details of private donations made to their coffers. In a landmark ruling by Judge BM Griesel on Wednesday, he dismissed the application by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
Ending the ‘haemorrhaging’ of Transnet and South African Airways (SAA) has been achieved, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin told members of Parliament on Friday. Speaking in his Budget vote, Erwin said: "I believe that we have achieved these objectives and are now moving beyond to greater efficiency."
Grintek chief executive officer Shaun Liebenberg will take over from Victor Moche as CEO of Denel, the state-owned military equipment manufacturing company, from "the end of May", Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin announced on Friday.
South Africans involved in the export market could "no longer rely" on a weak currency to drive their businesses, South African Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa told parliamentarians on Tuesday. He said his department was "very aware that important sectors are facing a crisis and decline, particularly those that have significant employment and social implications".
The South African Revenue Service is targeting a total tax revenue cake of R372,8-billion in the 2005/06 financial year, with corporate tax representing a slightly lower figure than the provincial outcome for the 2004/05 financial year, according to figures provided on Wednesday to Parliament.
Big business has urged the South African government to be bolder about economic growth at a meeting of the two parties held at Tuynhuys in Cape Town on Tuesday.
Working in a partnership — of business and the government — Africa will be highlighted "as a place to do business", said Minister of Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa.