If Jacob Zuma becomes president and is then convicted, a number of tactics can be used to protect him from losing the job, DA leader Helen Zille says.
Work has come to a halt on the Expropriation Bill, and although there been no announcement, the hold-up seems to lie with Parliament’s legal advisers.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has argued against a government of national unity in Zimbabwe, saying it will allow Mugabe to stay in power.
Mine owners will face stiffer fines and harsher terms of imprisonment for breaches of mine health and safety rules under a new Bill.
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel on Wednesday defended the policy of inflation targeting, and argued against any variation of the target range.
There will be no tampering with the fuel levies to try to ease the pain of oil price increases, the Cabinet has decided.
Despite assurances that laws abolishing the Scorpions would be passed by Parliament by June, it looks as though the crime-fighting unit is going to have a few more months to live.
Having indicated in previous answers to parliamentary questions that the Department of Minerals and Energy was considering the possible impact of introducing daylight-savings time, Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica has now said that it is not on the agenda.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Addressing an audience in London on Wednesday, Tony Leon — the former leader of the Democratic Alliance — expressed fears that under Jacob Zuma as president, South Africa could revert to a stereotype of "Big Man", African-style kleptocracy replete with redistributive and populist economics with lashings of demagoguery.
A radically transformed revenue-collection system was envisaged by commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) Pravin Gordhan on Wednesday. Explaining the changes that Sars is implementing this year, Gordhan told Parliament’s finance committee that this year employers would be able to use Sars’s own payroll software.