President Thabo Mbeki took issue on Friday with former president FW de Klerk and two journalists on their assertions that minority rights in South Africa are being sidelined in favour of the majority. The president was writing in the African National Congress’s online publication, ANC Today.
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/ 22 October 2004
The spat between President Thabo Mbeki and the Democratic Alliance over his reply to a question in the National Assembly on Thursday continued on Friday, with both Mbeki and DA leader Tony Leon referring to the matter in their respective weekly newsletters.
Parliament’s special committee considering Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana’s report on the complaint by Deputy President Jacob Zuma against National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Bulelani Ngcuka seems set for lengthy debate between the various parties represented.
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South Africa’s Deputy President Jacob Zuma went on the campaign trail in Cape Town on Thursday, and immediately came face-to-face with some of the harsh realities of South African society.
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The Scorpions special investigating unit has yet to complete its probe into certain aspects of South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal, National Directorate of Public Prosecutions representative Sipho Ngwema said on Wednesday.
South Africa has held talks with North Korea’s ambassador over his country’s withdrawal from the international treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has called on the international community to reassert the United Nations role as the world’s only legal and legitimate authority for world peace and security.
The Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) has successfully recovered ,9-million paid to a company in terms of an ”irregular” contract for the sale of the SFF’s strategic stock, Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Monday.
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/ 25 February 2003
The developed countries appear not to be honouring their pledges to the United Nations Global Fund on Aids, TB and Malaria, Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Tuesday.