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/ 5 September 2003
The new director general of the national Treasury is only likely to be officially announced in a few months. Despite the importance of the post, the government has to go through the entire official process to fill the position, including advertising the job, interviewing and having Cabinet make the appointment.
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/ 5 September 2003
The war of attrition between Bulelani Ngcuka and Deputy President Jacob Zuma this week verged closer to an assumption of full public hostilities when the deputy president filed suit in the Pretoria High Court against the national director of public prosecutions. But there are some questions the public may well want answers to.
The National Prosecuting Authority’s statement that the African National Congress owns a 10% stake in Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi Holdings — meaning the party stood to benefit from the arms deal — seems to reinforce suspicions it has moved into business it would rather keep from the public eye.
The deputy president sang for his supper, if charges against arms dealer are to be believed.
Nelson Mandela has been drawn into the controversy surrounding Deputy President Jacob Zuma. One of the R1-million amounts referred to in the draft charge sheet against Zuma’s financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, was in fact a donation from the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
FirstRand’s investigation into Mac Maharaj has trashed the reputation of the former transport minister.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s choice of a lawyer to help him prepare answers for the Scorpions may be telling.
A condom project touted this week as one of the most ”innovative” to stem from the offset programme linked to South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms deal does not yet exist and has yet to create a single job.
The bribery investigation faces a crucial hurdle as Schabir Shaik challenges the state’s attempt to make him testify against the deputy president.
The National Intelligence Agency has taken an interest in the Nigeria-South Africa oil saga and has visited some of those involved, including the wife of Eastern Cape Premier Makhenkesi Stofile.