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/ 31 October 2003
South African life assurer Sanlam on Friday announced that it is engaged in discussions with a potential partner to establish a broad-based black economic empowerment transaction which, if successfully concluded, may have an impact on the price of the company’s shares.
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/ 31 October 2003
Chairmanship of the Kimberley Process diamond certification scheme — the international organisation that regulates the global trade of rough diamonds — has been passed to Canada, with the Russian Federation receiving the vice-chairmanship.
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/ 31 October 2003
South Africa’s ambassador to Indonesia, Norman Mashabane, found guilty last year at an internal disciplinary hearing on 21 cases of sexual harassment, is to be represented at his appeal hearing by his union. ”While we will be representing Mr Mashabane, it does not in any case mean we support sexual harassment by managers/political appointees,” it hastened to add.
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/ 31 October 2003
Africa should solve the Zimbabwean problem in the interests of that country’s people and the continent as a whole, German Vice-Chancellor Joschka Fischer told reporters in Pretoria on Thursday.
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/ 31 October 2003
After fighting on opposite sides of what was dubbed Africa’s ”first world war”, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are now working to normalise their relations, officials from both countries said in Kigali on Thursday.
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/ 31 October 2003
The declarations of financial interests and benefits by Northern Cape minister for transport, roads and public works, John Block, made under the Executive Members Ethics Act, form part of investigations into his alleged corruption. Such use of declarations has emerged in the wake of last week’s Idasa report on government ethics.
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/ 31 October 2003
In an attempt to deal with irregularities at the National Development Agency (NDA), Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya has suspended CEO Delani Mthembu and instituted a forensic investigation into charges of corruption and mismanagement.
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/ 31 October 2003
Next year’s general elections appear to be sowing divisions among South Africa’s social movements, which are unsure about how best to use the poll to protest against the government’s percieved lack of delivery. The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), which is still debating whether or not to field candidates for the 2004 poll, is currently trying to manage divided opinion.
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/ 31 October 2003
More legal action against tertiary mergers is in the pipeline as massive rebellion builds up in the Eastern Cape against Minister of Education Kader Asmal. His announcement last week that the merged institution to be created from the University of Transkei (Unitra), Border Technikon and Eastern Cape Technikon will be known as the "Eastern Cape University of Technology" sparked deep anger at these institutions.
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/ 31 October 2003
Mpumalanga’s influential public works minister, Steve Mabona, privately received payments totalling R1-million from a company that had contracts with his department. The money, in two amounts of R500 000 each, flowed to Mabona within days of his department having transferred millions to the company for a contract that was subsequently probed.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22899">A chequered career</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22900">In his own words</a>