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/ 15 January 2004
The latest available figures on research and development in South Africa show that expenditure is slightly up, but it has not reached the government’s target of 1% of Gross Domestic Product, according to South Africa’s science and technology department.
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/ 12 January 2004
South Africa’s largest opposition party, the Inkatha Freedom Party, will launch its national election campaign in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday January 18. The pro-free-enterprise party is expected to underscore the importance of fast-tracking privatisation of state-owned enterprises.
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/ 15 December 2003
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma and Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma are in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, attending the China-Africa Cooperation Forum. The forum seeks to build common ground on ways to advance the interests of the developing world in the international political and economic system.
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/ 10 December 2003
Echoes of the controversial arms deal continue in the corridors of Parliament, with the standing committee on public accounts having handed the decision to the Speaker on possible further action against two opposition MPs. One of the MPs has given notice that he would refuse to apologise for his comments if he were called on to do so.
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/ 4 December 2003
The battle for the heart of the official opposition Democratic Alliance has begun with old National Party adherents, old Democratic Party followers, and former coloured Labour Party interests fighting it out for key positions on the Western Cape provincial lists for the legislature and Parliament.
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/ 26 November 2003
President Thabo Mbeki says inappropriate rewards for top management are a concern in both the private and public sectors, but the government has no intention of intervening. "Government has neither the power nor the intention to intervene in this matter," he said.
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/ 25 November 2003
South African Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi remains concerned about the Electoral Laws Second Amendment Bill — which allows people temporarily out of South Africa to vote abroad in next year’s national election. the Bill would still exclude a citizen working abroad on a temporary basis as an employee.
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/ 25 November 2003
Lumka Yengeni, wife of former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni, has made it on to the ruling party’s ”national-to-national” list for Parliament — in a position which would ensure her election to Parliament.
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/ 21 November 2003
South Africa’s International Marketing Council, which has been given the task of promoting a positive international image for the country through an international marketing campaign, will spend about R50-million a year, according to Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad.
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/ 20 November 2003
The National Assembly has given the nod to 12 names recommended by the communications portfolio committee to serve on the new board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. The Democratic Alliance, New National Party and Inkatha Freedom Party opposed the recommendations.