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/ 16 February 2004
The South African Budget to be presented by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday is expected to be in the region of R363-billion according to the projections in the Budget Review of 2003. Education spending is expected to remain the largest category of expenditure.
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/ 16 February 2004
The People’s Budget Campaign, representing NGOs, church groups and trade unions, has motivated for a modest increase in taxes relative to gross domestic product and an increase in state borrowing and a cancellation of the third tranche of fighter jets for the South African National Defence Force.
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/ 11 February 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>South African President Thabo Mbeki told Parliament on Wednesday afternoon that the upcoming April election will be a test of whether doomsday theories about the failure of the economy are true. Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Monday said for millions "life [in South Africa] is actually worse" than in 1994.
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/ 11 February 2004
South African Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Wednesday gave the strongest hint that he was unlikely to be reappointed to President Thabo Mbeki’s government after the national election in April. "Should I leave my department, as is likely, I am now confident that it has adequate administrative leadership and a man of integrity at its stewardship," said the minister.
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/ 10 February 2004
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille has urged South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to "stop scratching around the vegetable patch" and go and see HIV/Aids patients in hospitals. De Lille was referring to the minister’s suggestions that garlic and African potatoes were important in fighting disease.
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/ 9 February 2004
South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has pledged to stand by the troubled Caribbean country of Haiti, which has since Thursday been under siege by armed opponents to its president, arguing that the country needs to be assisted in its quest to establish a functioning democratic system.
Bloody uprising spreads in Haiti
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/ 6 February 2004
Political reactions on Friday streamed in to President Thabo Mbeki’s opening of Parliament and State of the Nation speech in Cape Town. Tony Leon, leader of the official opposition Democratic Alliance, said: ”He [Mbeki] did not address the real failures of crime, unemployment and HIV/Aids.”
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/ 2 February 2004
Former South African president FW de Klerk’s expected endorsement of the pact between his former apartheid party, the New National Party, and the ruling black majority African National Congress has sparked a volley of arguments between opposition leader Tony Leon and the NNP.
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/ 30 January 2004
The Inkatha Freedom Party, which shares the provincial government in KwaZulu-Natal with the ruling African National Congress, said on Friday it was sorry about an incident in which South African President Thabo Mbeki’s motorcade was hindered by a number of its supporters.