Eleventh-hour legal steps by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela have staved off a planned public reprimand in the National Assembly for her failure to disclose regular, substantial donations in the Members’ Register of Interests. This follows Madikizela-Mandela’s appeal against last year’s guilty verdict by Parliament’s ethics committee.
Gender inequalities are substantially less in the Western Cape than elsewhere in the country, the province’s budget revealed. The budget stated that there are no significant differences between woman-headed households and others, and the unemployment rate of women is no higher than that for men.
Parliament heard in the second week of March that 70% of people living in Ceres, one of South Africa’s agricultural powerhouses, experience hunger. A survey of 540 households in the poor communities of Ceres showed that hunger increased in winter months when jobs outside the peak seasonal harvest times became scarce.
Parliament plans to introduce an international travel policy to curb unwarranted excursions by MPs suffering from wanderlust. The parliamentary authorities became aware of the problem when an overlap emerged in this year’s overseas travel plans by various committees
Municipalities spent less than 10% of their capital budgets in the first six months of the financial year, raising fears that they are using loans earmarked for capital projects to cover operating costs or that “their planning is skewed”
The government’s decision to publish important information in all 11 official languages and less crucial documents in at least six will cost it R39,3-million, according to the Budget
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/ 28 February 2003
Gerald Morkel, once Western Cape premier, Cape Town mayor and Democratic Alliance provincial leader, will be handed his political death certificate at the Democratic Alliance provincial congress in Stellenbosch
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/ 24 February 2003
Funding, personnel and other resources have yet to be finalised for the new police division earmarked to take over the crime prevention tasks of rural commandos, and no date has been set for the division to become fully operational
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/ 22 February 2003
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna appears to have distanced the government from the idea of a blanket amnesty for political criminals
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/ 21 February 2003
Former deputy social development minister David Malatsi will this Friday join former Western Cape premier Peter Marais on charges of corruption for soliciting two donations of R300 000 and R100 000.