The Democratic Alliance won a narrow victory in a key municipal by-election contest in the Western Cape town of Swellendam on Wednesday — pipping the African National Congress by 65 votes.
The chief whip of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has admitted that the involvement of Members of Parliament — including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela — in cases of alleged fraud and corruption is embarrassing.
The United Democratic Movement, which last year blocked the implementation of floor-crossing legislation, could be one of the key victims when the legislation finally goes on to the statute book.
South Africa’s former ruling party, the New National Party, has objected to government’s raising of the earnings threshold set by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act — the point at which employees are excluded from the Act’s provisions regarding overtime payment.
South Africa’s national carrier, South African Airways, is constantly looking at new routes and partners and is extending its wings to cover the African sky, says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe.
South African domestic workers must be registered for unemployment insurance as from April 1 and BuaNews, the government news agency, has reported that this can now also be done by telephone.
Legislation has been tabled in the South African Parliament which gives the Safety and Security Minister the power to declare an organisation to be a terrorist group by notice in the government gazette.
The Western Cape’s three main political parties will be fighting it out in a key by-election in the leafy Swellendam on March 19 — the same day the country could be experiencing the defection shock wave at national and provincial level.
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/ 26 February 2003
South Africa’s military population "is ageing" – this is the stern warning contained in the Estimates of National Expenditure released on Wednesday.
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/ 26 February 2003
Education remains the largest category of expenditure in this year’s South African Budget, at 23.2% of non-interest spending in 2003/04. However, health, welfare and housing will continue to grow more strong, reflecting the broadening of social service priorities, according to the Budget review.