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/ 12 November 2003
Total expenditure in response to HIV and Aids, including amounts directly spent by provincial health departments, will exceed R3-million in 2004/05, says Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel. In his mini-Budget speech in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Manuel said R1,1-billion of this would be in the national Department of Health.
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/ 12 November 2003
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won two municipal by-elections – in the Western Cape at Breede River/Robertson municipality and at Dealesville in the Free State unopposed — while the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has won a seat at Phillipstown in the Northern Cape unopposed.
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/ 11 November 2003
SA President Thabo Mbeki says his government has taken a cue from the European Union’s model to inject funds to poor regions and social groups. Mbeki said that at its lekgotla in July the Cabinet had focused on the "critically important issue of the struggle against poverty and had observed that South Africa was characterised by two parallel economies".
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/ 10 November 2003
The South African Secret Services, which conducts crime intelligence, underspent by just over R1,1-million during the financial year ending March 31, 2003, according to the report of the Auditor General Shauket Fakie.
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/ 7 November 2003
De Beers has announced a R16,8-million investment in its "Big Hole project" at the Northern Cape mining city of Kimberley, the provincial capital, to develop the facilities on the perimeter of the famous diamond mine, which closed operations in 1914, and to boost the city’s future tourism potential.
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/ 6 November 2003
South African President Thabo Mbeki will host his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday. The Brazilian president will be on a working visit to Pretoria for bilateral political and economic discussions, the government news agency BuaNews reported on Thursday.
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/ 5 November 2003
South African Navy chief Johan Retief says the Navy participation in the tendering process for four corvettes — the first which arrived at Simon’s Town on Tuesday — was above reproach.
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/ 4 November 2003
The United Kingdom recognised that trade was much more important than aid to Africa and the disappointment of the recent Cancun trade talks should not discourage the pursuit of a fairer global trading system, Minister for Africa at the Foreign And Commonwealth Office Chris Mullin said on Monday.
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/ 4 November 2003
The first of South Africa’s four new patrol corvettes — the SAS Amatola — docks in Simon’s Town on Tuesday — the first sign of the country’s multi-billion rand investment in the arms procurement deal to re-equip the South African Navy and the South African Air Force.
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/ 3 November 2003
The United Kingdom will do all in its power to ensure that no Zimbabwean starves during the period leading up to the establishment of a democratically accountable government in that country, the Minister For Africa at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Chris Mullin, said on Monday.
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/ 29 October 2003
In a candid account in his new book <i>Nothing But the Truth</i>, a leading member of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, Professor Ben Turok, has provided a new account of the battle within the party to accept the current economic policy, called Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear).
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/ 28 October 2003
South Africa’s conventional arms exports nearly doubled between 2000 and 2002, according to a government paper referred to the parliamentary defence portfolio committee and joint standing committee on defence. A notable change in the listing is that South Africa sold no arms to Zimbabwe in the past two years.
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/ 27 October 2003
The leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party youth brigade have had themselves tested for HIV/Aids at the party’s headquarters in Durban. The group said it had taken "the bold step of having ourselves tested" in line with a resolution taken by the IFP youth brigade conference held in Ulundi at the end of August.
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/ 22 October 2003
The job to be vacated at the end of the month by South African National Treasury director general Maria Ramos is being advertised with a package of R738 993 a year. The advertisements in national newspapers stated that one of the requirements for the job is a post-graduate degree (master’s) in economics, public finance and financial management.
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/ 21 October 2003
The controversial Postal Services Amendment Bill has got the nod from the African National Congress-dominated public enterprises and labour select committee of South Africa’s National Council of Provinces — despite an eleventh-hour attempt to halt the legislation in its present form.
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/ 21 October 2003
Eleventh-hour hearings on South Africa’s Postal Services Amendment Bill — which has raised concerns among courier service providers — have been interrupted when a parliamentary committee meeting was declared irregular by African National Congress chief whip in the National Council of Provinces.
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/ 20 October 2003
Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya has appealed to the Speaker of the National Assembly to ensure that the South African Social Security Agency Bill and the Social Assistance Bill not be displaced from the programme of Parliament this year. The two Bills were to have been debated on October 21.
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/ 16 October 2003
South Africa’s main black opposition, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), has retained two municipal seats in by-elections held on Wednesday while the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has also retained two of its seats, one with a much reduced majority.
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/ 13 October 2003
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has rejected a report that there is a rift between him and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali. The controversy follows a speech in which Buthelezi reportedly described Mtshali as a man who "seems not to have had the wisdom or prudence to follow the leadership which I gave him".
South Africa effectively has two economies and interventions made in the last nine years of democracy have addressed only one of these, said South African President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday. Speaking at a Black Management Forum conference, Mbeki used a double-storey house as a metaphor for the South African economy.
Assaults in South Africa’s prisons have risen by nearly 2% year-on-year, which has been attributed to the ever-increasing prison population and the rise in offenders sentenced for aggressive crimes, according to the annual report of the Correctional Services department.
The maintenance, restoration and construction of prestigious accommodation for top South African politicians and key officials will take nearly R90-million out of the Department of Public Works’s building kitty during the current financial year.
The department has a budget of R1,9-billion for all public buildings in nine of the provinces.
Four municipal by-elections are to take place in three provinces on October 15, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) contesting them all — but likely to win two of them. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) looks set to win the other two.
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/ 30 September 2003
The South African national Department of Public Works is to spen a total of nearly two billion rand on its building programme in the nine provinces during the 2003/04 financial year. Nearly half of this money — a total of R900-million — will be spent on prisons.
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/ 26 September 2003
The board of trustees of the Transnet Second Defined Benefit Fund were in the process of amending the rules of the fund to make provision for the granting of ad hoc increases in excess of 2%, South African Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday.
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/ 26 September 2003
South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin says he is confident that the proposed Coega aluminium smelter project will go ahead, although Monday’s decision by the European Union could have an impact on the timing of the development.
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/ 25 September 2003
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is to present his medium-term Budget policy statement — known as the mini-Budget — on November 11, according to a parliamentary schedule, followed by Manuel’s introduction of his Adjustments Appropriation Bill and the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill.
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/ 18 September 2003
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has announced the extension, by a year, of the deadline for the evaluation of second properties in terms of the capital gains tax legislation to September 30 2004. He said that there was a shortage of evaluators in South Africa and the government had acceded to requests for an extension.
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/ 18 September 2003
The annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which began in Dubai on Wednesday, would take on a new dynamic as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Organisation talks at Cancun last week, says South African Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel.
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/ 12 September 2003
Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has expressed confidence that there would still be an announcement on the winning bidder for the second national operator (SNO) for fixed-line telephony by the end of the financial year.
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/ 11 September 2003
The South African public service has identified 20 958 employees, including members of the South African National Defence Force, who are in excess of the skills requirements.
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/ 11 September 2003
Addressing a media conference in Parliament on Wednesday, Minister Labour Membathisi Mdladlana opened the door to child labour in advertising, sport, artistic and cultural activities.