Deputy President Jacob Zuma is continuing his work programme as usual despite the flurry of public debate around his alleged links to corruption in South Africa’s arms deal.
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Former President Nelson Mandela’s laywer Ismail Ayob has answered some questions about an alleged art scam — but carefully avoided some key questions about ownership of a company involved.
The British High Commissioner in South Africa Ann Grant officially handed over the keys of the British High Commission building in the parliamentary precinct in Cape Town on Friday morning — and it will now become part of the parliamentary complex.
Idasa political analyst Richard Calland has told a public radio debate on political party funding that part of the revelations concerning South Africa’s arms deal indicated that interested parties made donations to the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
The emphasis of the spending trend in next February’s budget is likely to fall on provinces as well as on local authority spending rather than on national departments, a senior South African Treasury official said on Tuesday.
Nearly 800 000 drivers did not convert to the new credit-card system of driver’s licence, according to South African Transport Minister Dullah Omar. The deadline was the end of April this year.
A revised Petroleum Pipelines Bill put to the relevant National Assembly committee on Monday provides for guaranteed protection of crude oil supplies to the Natref oil refinery in Sasolburg.
South African national lottery ticket sales rose from R88,4-million in 1999/2000 to R3,77-billion in 2002/03, according to Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin.
The number of applicants from Zimbabwe who applied for refugee status in South Africa rose dramatically between 2001 and 2002, according to Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
The number of warrants of arrest issued for maintenance defaulters dropped from 61 499 in 2000 for all nine provinces in South Africa to 53 531 in 2001, according to figures released to Parliament by Justice Minister Penuell Maduna.