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/ 5 September 2003
A decade after the end of apartheid, ”the right of access to adequate housing remains unrealised for many farm dwellers”. This is one of the conclusions of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) report into human rights violations in farming communities.
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/ 5 September 2003
Although the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Bill (BBEE) was approved by the National Assembly this week, it is unlikely to be implemented before late October.
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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
Outgoing National Treasury director general Maria Ramos will be sorely missed when she leaves to become Transnet chief executive, opposition parties said on Thursday.
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/ 5 September 2003
Having once been an heroic puffer, I’ll say one thing for smokers: despite their ashtray breath and their lethal personal atmospheres, they don’t come anywhere near drinkers when it comes to ostentatious offensiveness.
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/ 5 September 2003
The Scorpions seized assets from nine premises in early morning raids throughout South Africa on Wednesday, the investigative unit reported.
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/ 5 September 2003
South African house prices slowed somewhat to 18,8% year on year in August compared with a revised 19,2% year on year in July, South African commercial bank Absa said in its monthly House Price Index on Friday. This compared with a recent low of 13,9% year on year in November last year.
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/ 5 September 2003
National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala confirmed on Friday that she had referred information about South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma from the national prosecuting authority to Parliament’s ethics committee.
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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.
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/ 5 September 2003
It seems that golf courses are our sad attempts to recreate Eden, which apparently had lots of bunkers all over it (tended by archangels with flaming rakes), and a sprinkler system that came on at five every morning.