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/ 16 January 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) has noted the release on Monday of its former National Assembly chief whip from prison and says that it has "consistently held" that the law must take its course without fear or favour. The party also hinted that there could be a role for Tony Yengeni in what it terms the building of a non-racial society.
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/ 15 January 2007
Increasing the rate of inflation through expansionary fiscal or monetary policies will "certainly not" lead to reduction of high rates of unemployment in South Africa, a Free Market Foundation economist, Jasson Urbach, has argued in a paper entitled <i>Is South Africa Headed for a Battle between the Twin Evils?</i>.
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/ 15 January 2007
There is ”no activity” in ruling party structures over the matter of leadership of the African National Congress at present, its deputy president, Jacob Zuma, told the South African Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday night. He said during an interview that the discussion about potential leaders has been manufactured by the media.
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/ 12 January 2007
The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Joe Seremane told South African Broadcasting Corporation radio on Friday that he will make an announcement within weeks as to whether he will make himself available to stand for the leadership of the official opposition. Seremane is the federal chairperson of the party and, if elected, will be the first black leader of the official opposition.
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/ 12 January 2007
It is critical to win the political argument that a decentralised state is more effective than a unitary state in delivering essential services, including crime fighting, says Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Buthelezi, noting that the South African state’s number one obligation is to protect its citizens, argued that policing in South Africa remains highly centralised.
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/ 11 January 2007
Eastern Cape Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Athol Trollip formally announced at a press conference his intention to run for the leadership of the official opposition. He was introduced to the media on Thursday in glowing terms by his Eastern Cape legislature colleague, Veliswa Mvenya: ”His skin is white but he is black.”
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/ 10 January 2007
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu), which represents about two-thirds of all teachers in South Africa, has welcomed the fact that the threat to close poorly performing schools has been retracted. Sadtu was responding to a threat from Gauteng education provincial minister Angie Motshekga to close dysfunctional schools.
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/ 10 January 2007
Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Zimbabwe has backed an ongoing strike by medical doctors as well as a go-slow at the country’s schools. In a statement on Wednesday, issued by MDC secretary for information and publicity Nelson Chamisa, the party said the strike is a vote of no-confidence in the government.
South Africa’s tourism-marketing efforts are paying off in ”very concrete terms”, with statistics showing there had been a nearly 16% tourism spike in the period January to July 2006, compared with the corresponding period in 2005, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on Tuesday.
A state funeral and private burial will be held respectively in Pretoria, Gauteng, and Bloemfontein, Free State, on Saturday for the late former state president Marais Viljoen, who died in Pretoria last week, according to the South African government news agency, BuaNews.