The new draft liquor Bill is scheduled to be processed by Parliament’s trade and industry committee amid concerns that the legislation gives the line minister significant powers to determine access to business opportunities in the industry.
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Eleventh-hour legal steps by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela have staved off a planned public reprimand in the National Assembly for her failure to disclose regular, substantial donations in the Members’ Register of Interests. This follows Madikizela-Mandela’s appeal against last year’s guilty verdict by Parliament’s ethics committee.
South Africa’s persistent pursuit to bring inflation down has helped the rand to recover, deputy SA Reserve Bank governor Ian Plenderleith said on Tuesday. He contended the inflation-targeting policy had done much to maintain confidence in the economy.
Local Nigerian leaders were on Tuesday seeking a political end to a bloody uprising in the Niger Delta which has crippled the region’s oil industry and cut crude exports by more than a third.
Lawyers from the Southern African Development Community will meet in Swaziland on Saturday to discuss a judicial crisis in the tiny landlocked kingdom sparked by a mass resignation of appeals court judges last year.
The former president of the Central African Republic, Andre Kolingba, is ready to go home from exile in Uganda, an official of his political party said on Monday.
A Nigerian Islamic court postponed the start of mother-of-three Amina Lawal’s appeal against being stoned to death at a brief hearing here on Tuesday.
The National Assembly will be abuzz Tuesday afternoon as old faces are seen in new political parties which means that positions on the brown benches are expected to be swopped about — the result of nearly four days of defections during the first official defection period for Members of Parliament.
The rand has remained near the R8 per dollar level despite the start of the American invasion of Iraq on March 20 and a change in South African Reserve Bank (SARB) exchange rate policy announced on the same day.