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South African official opposition leader Tony Leon has questioned the shroud of silence which hangs in ruling African National Congress circles over the prospect that Finance Minister Trevor Manuel could be deputy president one day.
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The African National Congress won six of nine municipal by-elections held on Wednesday — just four weeks before the national election for provincial and national government on April 14. Two of the seats went to the ANC, two were won by the official opposition Democratic Alliance and one by the Inkatha Freedom Party.
Special Report: Elections 2004
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Pieter-Dirk Uys — better known in his drag role Evita Bezuidenhout who plays the former ambassadress to the imaginary apartheid homeland of Bapetikosweti — has resigned as a member of the official opposition Democratic Alliance.
Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (Ecaar) will need to have deep pockets to pay the costs of its failed arms deal application to the Cape High Court, says South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. He said if the application had been successful it would have had ”profound consequences” for South Africa.
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/ 27 February 2004
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel tore into opposition parties on Friday — particularly the official opposition Democratic Alliance — for promoting populist economics that would not be sustainable in the country. Manuel argued that two million jobs have been created in the past 10 years and that is where the debate should begin.
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/ 26 February 2004
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Thursday declined to be drawn on whether Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi would play a role in the post-April-election national Cabinet. Buthelezi has recently hinted that his term of office as minister may be coming to an end.
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/ 25 February 2004
The long-standing political battle between two MPs and the Auditor General, Shauket Fakie — on whether he altered the final report of the joint investigating team into South Africa’s controversial arms deal — appeared to fizzle out in Parliament this week.
DA, ACDP object to arms deal report
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/ 24 February 2004
The joint investigating team report into South Africa’s controversial arms deal has been given the nod by the National Assembly, with the exception of the official opposition Democratic Alliance and the African Christian Democratic Party. The DA and ACDP made clear their opposition to accepting the report.
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/ 19 February 2004
Friedrich Naumann Foundation chairperson Count Otto Lambsdorff on Wednesday questioned the Proudly South Africa campaign to promote the sale of the country’s goods to the domestic market, arguing that it was contrary to the policy of opening the country up to international markets.