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/ 5 November 2003
South African Navy chief Johan Retief says the Navy participation in the tendering process for four corvettes — the first which arrived at Simon’s Town on Tuesday — was above reproach.
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/ 5 November 2003
The focus falls this weekend on South Africa’s youth who appear — at least up to now — to have spurned the political process and have not yet registered on the voters’ roll so they can vote in next year’s national election.
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/ 4 November 2003
The United Kingdom recognised that trade was much more important than aid to Africa and the disappointment of the recent Cancun trade talks should not discourage the pursuit of a fairer global trading system, Minister for Africa at the Foreign And Commonwealth Office Chris Mullin said on Monday.
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/ 4 November 2003
The first of South Africa’s four new patrol corvettes — the SAS Amatola — docks in Simon’s Town on Tuesday — the first sign of the country’s multi-billion rand investment in the arms procurement deal to re-equip the South African Navy and the South African Air Force.
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/ 3 November 2003
The United Kingdom will do all in its power to ensure that no Zimbabwean starves during the period leading up to the establishment of a democratically accountable government in that country, the Minister For Africa at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Chris Mullin, said on Monday.
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/ 29 October 2003
In a candid account in his new book <i>Nothing But the Truth</i>, a leading member of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, Professor Ben Turok, has provided a new account of the battle within the party to accept the current economic policy, called Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear).
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/ 28 October 2003
South Africa’s conventional arms exports nearly doubled between 2000 and 2002, according to a government paper referred to the parliamentary defence portfolio committee and joint standing committee on defence. A notable change in the listing is that South Africa sold no arms to Zimbabwe in the past two years.
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/ 27 October 2003
The leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party youth brigade have had themselves tested for HIV/Aids at the party’s headquarters in Durban. The group said it had taken "the bold step of having ourselves tested" in line with a resolution taken by the IFP youth brigade conference held in Ulundi at the end of August.
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/ 24 October 2003
A rare spotlight fell on the second chamber of Parliament, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), which sat for two days this week when it dealt with a battery of legislation already passed by the National Assembly, including Bills that have a strong bearing on the business community.
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/ 22 October 2003
The job to be vacated at the end of the month by South African National Treasury director general Maria Ramos is being advertised with a package of R738 993 a year. The advertisements in national newspapers stated that one of the requirements for the job is a post-graduate degree (master’s) in economics, public finance and financial management.