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/ 30 September 2003
The South African national Department of Public Works is to spen a total of nearly two billion rand on its building programme in the nine provinces during the 2003/04 financial year. Nearly half of this money — a total of R900-million — will be spent on prisons.
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/ 29 September 2003
Japan’s Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has pledged -billion for education and health care in Africa at a conference on African development. South African President Thabo Mbeki said a Japan-Africa dialogue, exploring ways in which Japan can support trade and investment in Africa, should begin in earnest.
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/ 26 September 2003
South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin says he is confident that the proposed Coega aluminium smelter project will go ahead, although Monday’s decision by the European Union could have an impact on the timing of the development.
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/ 26 September 2003
The board of trustees of the Transnet Second Defined Benefit Fund were in the process of amending the rules of the fund to make provision for the granting of ad hoc increases in excess of 2%, South African Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday.
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/ 25 September 2003
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is to present his medium-term Budget policy statement — known as the mini-Budget — on November 11, according to a parliamentary schedule, followed by Manuel’s introduction of his Adjustments Appropriation Bill and the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill.
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/ 18 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki has emphasised in Parliament that he will not suspend Deputy President Jacob Zuma as he is not a court and a person is innocent until proven guilty. ”We will not take any disciplinary action simply on the basis of allegations,” he said.
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/ 18 September 2003
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has announced the extension, by a year, of the deadline for the evaluation of second properties in terms of the capital gains tax legislation to September 30 2004. He said that there was a shortage of evaluators in South Africa and the government had acceded to requests for an extension.
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/ 18 September 2003
The annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which began in Dubai on Wednesday, would take on a new dynamic as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Organisation talks at Cancun last week, says South African Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel.
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/ 12 September 2003
The New National Party has come out with guns blazing against the proposed ministerial committee to investigate the allegation that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid-era spy. The announcement of the committee probe was made by Minister of Justice Penuell Maduna on Thursday.
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/ 12 September 2003
Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has expressed confidence that there would still be an announcement on the winning bidder for the second national operator (SNO) for fixed-line telephony by the end of the financial year.