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/ 6 November 2006
Monday’s judgement of the Supreme Court of Appeal upholding the conviction of Schabir Shaik, financial adviser to former deputy president Jacob Zuma, now gives the National Prosecuting Authority the moral high ground to continue with its case against Zuma, say opposition politicians.
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/ 1 November 2006
South African politicians paid tribute on Wednesday to former president PW Botha, who died on Tuesday night at his home in the Western Cape. Messages were received from President Thabo Mbeki, former presidents FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, former parliamentarian Helen Suzman and many others.
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/ 31 October 2006
A new dispensing fee for medicine will come into effect from Wednesday, the Department of Health announced in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The new fees were set by the department’s pricing committee, ordered by the Constitutional Court last year to reconsider a fee of 26% of the single exit price, capped at R26.
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/ 27 October 2006
The government’s taxi-recapitalisation programme in its current form should be scrapped, taxi owners and drivers demanded in Pretoria on Friday, where thousands marched to the Union Buildings. Traffic was also disrupted in Johannesburg and Cape Town, with reports of roads blocked off and stonings of vehicles.
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/ 20 October 2006
Billy Masetlha, the former National Intelligence Agency chief, appeared briefly in connection with contravening the Intelligence Services Act in the Hatfield Community Court, Pretoria, on Thursday. His case was postponed to December 8 and 9, when he will make a plea.
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/ 19 October 2006
The Eastern Cape provincial administration was unable to account for R30,2-billion out of R34,1-billion (88,5%) it spent during 2005/06, the Public Service Accountability Monitor said on Thursday. The Eastern Cape auditor general issued five provincial departments with disclaimers for the 2005/06 financial year. These include the four major service-delivery departments.
Two men who threatened to hijack a Kulula.com airliner on Friday were arrested after the aircraft returned to the Cape Town International airport. When the flight reached 15 000 feet, a cabin controller was threatened by a passenger who said he was going to hijack the plane, Stuart Cochrane, spokesperson for the airline, told the Mail & Guardian Online.
South Africa and India will share intelligence to help prevent international terrorism, President Thabo Mbeki said on Monday. He met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Union Buildings in Pretoria where they signed a declaration "reaffirming the strategic partnership" between the two countries.
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/ 1 September 2006
Kwaito star Zola, Tsotsi actor Presley Chweneyagae and actresses Shaleen Surtie-Richards and Nina Swart are among South African celebrities who have come out in support of a new emblem for Parliament. In August, Parliament called on all South Africans to take part in designing its new emblem.
The revelation that the official opposition Democratic Alliance allegedly received a donation from slain businessman Brett Kebble points to the need for serious reform in the party political funding regime in South Africa, says Independent Democrats MP Lance Greyling.