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/ 15 February 2006
In her song, Soweto Blues, Miriam Makeba laments the absence of men when the police killed schoolchildren in Soweto in June 1976. In her view, men ought to take up their traditional and historic role of protecting their kith. It is moot whether throughout history men have always exercised such responsibility with distinction.
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/ 15 February 2006
Ordinary South Africans — except those who are heavy smokers and drinkers — will be walking with a spring in their step after Wednesday’s Budget. Following the pattern set in previous budgets, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has again wooed individual taxpayers with tax relief that will this year allow them to hang on to R13,1-billion.
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/ 15 February 2006
A bold cut in the corporate tax rate and the secondary tax on companies is necessary to unleash South Africa’s growth potential, but Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has not taken these steps, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance. Other parties have also responded.
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/ 15 February 2006
In Lerwick, in Scotland’s windswept Shetland Islands, just waiting to see the dentist can be as agonising as getting your tooth pulled. Just ask Alec Smales. ”My wife had to wait a year-and-a-half to see a dentist,” he recalled the other day, ”and then she had to wait for another year for her next appointment.”
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/ 15 February 2006
New York’s health department is to release what may be the world’s first municipally branded condom. The city, which distributes one million free condoms a month, wants to create its own packaging to help track and promote condom use.
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/ 15 February 2006
South African economists and interest groups have reacted to Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s 10th Budget speech delivered on Wednesday. Economist Mike Schussler said: ”I think it’s a good Budget, but not a great Budget, because I believe Manuel had a lot more room to cut individual and company taxes even further.”
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/ 14 February 2006
The Supreme Court of Appeal was expected to hear argument in an appeal by Auditor General Shauket Fakie on Wednesday against a high court ruling that he was in contempt of court in a matter related to the multibillion-rand arms deal. Fakie appealed against a Pretoria High Court judgement that he had failed to comply with a court order to give CCII Systems certain documents pertaining to the government’s arms procurement process.
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The Inkatha Freedom Party does not play the political games of power and patronage that are ”known to be part and parcel of the politics of the Western Cape”, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi told a campaign meeting in the Cape Town suburb of Hanover Park on Tuesday evening.
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/ 14 February 2006
A loan allegedly made by Imvume Management head Sandi Majali to the wife of a Cabinet minister should be probed by the police as it might be a criminal offence, the Public Protector said on Tuesday. He did not have the powers to conduct criminal investigations or prosecute guilty parties, the office of the protector, Lawrence Mushwana, said in a statement.