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/ 28 January 2004
The decline in inflation seems to be at an end, and further interest rate cuts are unlikely, economists said on Tuesday. December’s 4% CPIX inflation rate probably signalled the bottom of the declining interest rate cycle, said African Harvest Fund Managers chief economist Adenaan Hardien.
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/ 20 January 2004
The final report of the Hefer Commission of Inquiry into spying allegations against national prosecutions head Bulelani Ngcuka was critical on Tuesday of Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s threat to ignore a subpoena to testify.
Ngcuka ‘probably never’ was a spy
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/ 14 January 2004
The report of the Hefer Commission of Inquiry into allegations that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid spy was handed to the government on Wednesday. Hefer would not disclose the report’s contents, but the former judge said his final decision had been easy to reach.
Opposition political parties on Friday sharply criticised the SABC’s decision to broadcast President Thabo Mbeki’s speech at this weekend’s launch of the African National Congress election manifesto. ”The SABC is being turned back into an apartheid-style state broadcaster,” said the IFP.
The restitution of land to those previously dispossessed of it will not result in a stoppage of agricultural production in South Africa, the Land Claims Commission said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 December 2003
South African society remains divided and not all have embraced the concept of national unity, President Thabo Mbeki said at Reconciliation Day celebrations in Pretoria on Tuesday. Much progress has been made to reconcile and reconstruct the country, he told revellers gathered on the lawns of the Union Buildings.
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/ 9 December 2003
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) is to probe reports that thousands of retired local authority employees have had their pension pay-outs reduced by 12% per month, the union said on Tuesday. If true, this is just the latest in a series of worrying developments at the Joint Municipal Pension Fund.
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/ 28 November 2003
His hands outstretched in a gesture of victory, ”People’s Poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli was freed from Midrand’s Leeuwkop prison on Friday — into the arms of adoring fans, family and friends. ”God sustained. I am unsinkable,” he proclaimed as the prison gates swung open shortly after 9am.
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/ 26 November 2003
Peacekeeping missions could not succeed unless they involved the destruction of weaponry used in conflicts, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Wednesday. ”It is important to collect the weapons that you disarm, many of whom have killed people already. (They) simply have to be destroyed,” he said in Pretoria.
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/ 30 October 2003
Rightwingers planning a coup d’état were in 2001 provided with maps, aerial photographs and weapons and ammunition stock lists of the Lohatlha defence force base in the Northern Cape, police informer Johannes Coenraad Smit told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.