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It will come as no surprise that Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has targeted car allowances in this Budget. After numerous hints last year from the minister and South African Revenue Service Commissioner Pravin Gordhan, Manuel has taken action to reduce the abuse of car travel allowance.
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/ 25 February 2005
A United Nations team vowed on Friday to be impartial in probing in Lebanon the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, as Lebanon waited for powerful neighbour Syria to begin a promised troop redeployment. Damascus is under international pressure and from Lebanon’s opposition to withdraw from its smaller neighbour.
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/ 25 February 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has paid special tribute to African National Congress stalwart Raymond Mhlaba, who died at the age of 85 last Sunday, calling him one of South Africa’s foremost leaders and ”midwife of our democracy”. Mbeki devoted his weekly column on Friday in the ANC’s online publication, ANC Today, to Mhlaba’s memory.
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/ 25 February 2005
A piece of equipment from a weather balloon caused a stir at the Springs Old Age home when it was mistaken for a bomb on Thursday afternoon, police said. Occupants at the home became suspicious when they heard a ticking noise from a parcel that ended up in the parking lot at about 2.30pm, Superintendent Andy Pieke said.
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/ 25 February 2005
The African National Congress and the Presidency are singling out Afrikaans single-medium schools for interference, harassment and demonisation, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. He condemned the Western Cape education minister for trying to compel an Afrikaans-medium primary school to create a special English-medium class.
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/ 25 February 2005
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Fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik told the Durban High Court on Friday how he helped himself to money from the account of Deputy President Jacob Zuma. The money was donated to Zuma, his long-time friend and the man he served as a financial adviser, by former president Nelson Mandela, the court heard.
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/ 25 February 2005
The granting of a court order to obtain information from the government about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) was welcomed by the Environmental Justice Networking Forum on Friday. A Pretoria High Court order was obtained by environmental lobby group Biowatch on Thursday and compelled the government to divulge details of all GMOs brought into or manufactured in the country.
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/ 25 February 2005
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/197779/special_rep_icon_template.gif" align=left>The CEO of Stanlib Asset Management, Allan Miller, is looking gleefully at the increases for police officers and teachers to guide his investment decisions. The move will put more money in their pockets and they will be able to increase spending as well as take on more credit.
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With almost half of South Africa categorised as poor, the national Budget must be looked at for its impact on poverty. To what extent does it extend an effective social welfare net and how much tax relief is targeted at working-class families as opposed to the wealthy?
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/ 25 February 2005
NRG Gestetner South Africa, the wholly owned multinational subsidiary of NRG, has entered into a R9-million black economic empowerment (BEE) partnership with Chaka Chaka Investments — led by singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, who will take on the role of CEO at Gestetner Tshwane.