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The South African Revenue Service kicked off its national dispute resolution roadshow in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The roadshow will consist of a series of half-day seminars aimed at demystifying Sars’s newly formalised fast-tracked approach to tax-dispute resolution.
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North Korea celebrated its 55th anniversary as a communist state on Tuesday with patriotic songs, nationalist rhetoric and a troops-only military parade bereft of military hardware, easing tensions over its threats to conduct a nuclear test.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has hailed India as ”one of the most important countries in the world” before going into talks with his hosts aimed at expanding military and political cooperation. His visit to India has been denounced by India’s Muslim and leftwing groups.
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A Zimbabwean Cabinet minister has said about 30 000ha of farmland have been recovered from Zimbabwe ruling-party officials who had acquired more than one farm under the government’s land-reform scheme. President Robert Mugabe appointed a land review committee earlier this year to investigate, among other things, multiple farm ownership.
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Black business people are being urged to play a vital role in the fight against crime in South Africa. Kenny Fihla, the new CEO of Business against Crime SA, intends to bring black business into the organisation.
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The Aids pandemic in Africa could provoke civil wars and wars between states, a Botswanan army general has warned at Africa’s first military conference on the pandemic.
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An urgent bid by the SABC for access to the King inquiry into rugby’s race row was rejected in the Cape High Court on Monday. The SABC had asked the court to order the South African Rugby Football Union to instruct former judge Edwin King to allow it to broadcast the hearings.
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South Africa needed to be a more activist development state, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday evening.
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Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has been given two days to come clean about the affairs of the provincial health department, the Democratic Alliance’s Clive Hatch said on Monday.
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