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/ 21 October 2003
The controversial Postal Services Amendment Bill has got the nod from the African National Congress-dominated public enterprises and labour select committee of South Africa’s National Council of Provinces — despite an eleventh-hour attempt to halt the legislation in its present form.
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/ 16 October 2003
The absence of detailed statistics relating to crime on tourism hampers efforts to get a true picture of the situation, says Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism Rejoice Mabudafhasi. The police’s administration system ”does not provide for a distinction between crime against tourists and crime against the general public”, she said.
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/ 16 October 2003
South Africa’s main black opposition, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), has retained two municipal seats in by-elections held on Wednesday while the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has also retained two of its seats, one with a much reduced majority.
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/ 14 October 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal backs the filling of a proposed posts for parliamentary commissioners to the Zulu king from the ranks of provincial MPs — and would not oppose an Inkatha Freedom Party candidate. This follows a row between IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Premier Lionel Mtshali.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=21848">Buthelezi denies rift with KZN premier</a>
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/ 13 October 2003
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has rejected a report that there is a rift between him and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali. The controversy follows a speech in which Buthelezi reportedly described Mtshali as a man who "seems not to have had the wisdom or prudence to follow the leadership which I gave him".
South Africa effectively has two economies and interventions made in the last nine years of democracy have addressed only one of these, said South African President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday. Speaking at a Black Management Forum conference, Mbeki used a double-storey house as a metaphor for the South African economy.
The South African Department of Public Works is to spend millions of rands this year to upgrade various museums around the country, including the renovation of the Kruger House museum in central Pretoria. More than R20-million is also to be spent on the harbour at the Robben Island museum complex.
Assaults in South Africa’s prisons have risen by nearly 2% year-on-year, which has been attributed to the ever-increasing prison population and the rise in offenders sentenced for aggressive crimes, according to the annual report of the Correctional Services department.
The maintenance, restoration and construction of prestigious accommodation for top South African politicians and key officials will take nearly R90-million out of the Department of Public Works’s building kitty during the current financial year.
The department has a budget of R1,9-billion for all public buildings in nine of the provinces.
Four municipal by-elections are to take place in three provinces on October 15, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) contesting them all — but likely to win two of them. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) looks set to win the other two.