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/ 19 November 2003
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has introduced legislation in the National Assembly that provides greater flexibility for foreign corporate reorganisations. The current system of foreign taxation has "the unintended consequence of discouraging the repatriation of dividends", he said.
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/ 19 November 2003
The National Council of Provinces, the second House of the South African Parliament, on Tuesday gave the controversial National Health Bill the green light. One of the most controversial elements of the Bill is the requirement that the government regulate where private doctors can practise.
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/ 13 November 2003
Fiery SA politician Patricia de Lille, leader of the Independent Democrats, has launched an SMS-based service to keep in contact with her voters. De Lille, a former Pan Africanist Congress MP who defected to form the new party earlier this year, launched the service on Thursday.
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/ 12 November 2003
Total expenditure in response to HIV and Aids, including amounts directly spent by provincial health departments, will exceed R3-million in 2004/05, says Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel. In his mini-Budget speech in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Manuel said R1,1-billion of this would be in the national Department of Health.
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/ 12 November 2003
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won two municipal by-elections – in the Western Cape at Breede River/Robertson municipality and at Dealesville in the Free State unopposed — while the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has won a seat at Phillipstown in the Northern Cape unopposed.
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/ 10 November 2003
The South African Secret Services, which conducts crime intelligence, underspent by just over R1,1-million during the financial year ending March 31, 2003, according to the report of the Auditor General Shauket Fakie.
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/ 7 November 2003
The South African Parliament’s joint standing committee on intelligence has objected to subpoenas being issued to South Africa’s intelligence and security services compelling them to provide classified or sensitive information.
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/ 7 November 2003
De Beers has announced a R16,8-million investment in its "Big Hole project" at the Northern Cape mining city of Kimberley, the provincial capital, to develop the facilities on the perimeter of the famous diamond mine, which closed operations in 1914, and to boost the city’s future tourism potential.
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/ 6 November 2003
South Africa would not go down the same path as Zimbabwe where people had taken the law into their own hands, because people were frustrated with the pace of land reform, New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday.
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/ 6 November 2003
South African President Thabo Mbeki will host his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday. The Brazilian president will be on a working visit to Pretoria for bilateral political and economic discussions, the government news agency BuaNews reported on Thursday.