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The Democratic Alliance and the New National Party have reacted to the announcement by the South African Reserve Bank of a 1% cut in the repo rate. A scheduled meeting of the bank’s monetary policy committee was pre-empted by the repo-rate meeting on Wednesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20291">FNB joins Standard, Absa in cutting rates</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20288">Reserve bank cuts rate</a>
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/ 10 September 2003
South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana on Wednesday warned that his department could take legal action against companies that do not meet a deadline of October 1 for the submission of employment equity reports.
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/ 5 September 2003
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille says she has every right to continue to question any political figure — including South African President Thabo Mbeki — over any public matter, including the arms deal.
<li><A class="standardtextsmall" href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20031">Government rejects De Lille’s ‘lies'</a>
<li><A class="standardtextsmall" href="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/28225/govtdelillestatement.pdf">Govt’s full statement (PDF)</a>
<li><A class="standardtextsmall" href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19978">Probe the president, says De Lille</a>
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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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/ 4 September 2003
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has commented on the recent public debate on the 12% hike in pay for the governor of the central bank, Tito Mboweni, saying that the matter could be interrogated by the finance portfolio committee of the National Assembly.
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/ 4 September 2003
South African Justice Minister Penuell Maduna has categorically denied that he had in any way influenced the decision not to prosecute Deputy-President Jacob Zuma, and cabinet spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe reiterated that government would not interfere with the judicial process.
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/ 2 September 2003
The accumulated outstanding debt of the 284 South African municipalities was R24,6-billion, according to Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi.
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/ 2 September 2003
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi is acting president while President Thabo Mbeki and his deputy Jacob Zuma are abroad, but DA spokesperson Sheila Camerer said Mbeki and Zuma appear to be dodging the alleged corruption drama surrounding Zuma.
South Africa’s rape and attempted rape figures are up year-on-year for the financial years 2000/01 and 2001/02, according to Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma is continuing his work programme as usual despite the flurry of public debate around his alleged links to corruption in South Africa’s arms deal.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19680">FF calls for arms-deal inquiry</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=19616&t=1">Zuma saga drags on</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19598&t=1">Buthelezi: Zuma should go to court</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19581">Look, I’m innocent, says Zuma</a>
Idasa political analyst Richard Calland has told a public radio debate on political party funding that part of the revelations concerning South Africa’s arms deal indicated that interested parties made donations to the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
The emphasis of the spending trend in next February’s budget is likely to fall on provinces as well as on local authority spending rather than on national departments, a senior South African Treasury official said on Tuesday.
A revised Petroleum Pipelines Bill put to the relevant National Assembly committee on Monday provides for guaranteed protection of crude oil supplies to the Natref oil refinery in Sasolburg.
South African national lottery ticket sales rose from R88,4-million in 1999/2000 to R3,77-billion in 2002/03, according to Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin.
The number of applicants from Zimbabwe who applied for refugee status in South Africa rose dramatically between 2001 and 2002, according to Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
The number of warrants of arrest issued for maintenance defaulters dropped from 61 499 in 2000 for all nine provinces in South Africa to 53 531 in 2001, according to figures released to Parliament by Justice Minister Penuell Maduna.
The final draft of the Liquor Bill, which was put to South Africa’s National Assembly trade and industry committee on Wednesday, restricts the advertising of liquor products in a manner which is false and misleading.
The South African government has confirmed that fundamental changes have been made to liquor legislation — stopping in its tracks a form of the legislation which would have curtailed distribution and manufacturing by the same players.
One of the bidders for greater Cape Town’s new film studio plans to create six "backlots" — miniature city recreations — as part of the Hollywood-style complex.
The South African cabinet has emerged from a policy review meeting to declare that indications were that the economic slowdown in the country was starting to reverse.
South African President Thabo Mbeki told journalists on Tuesday that he would not interfere with the Scorpion case being investigated against his deputy Jacob Zuma for alleged involvement in arms deal corruption.
Legislation tabled in Parliament on Friday provides for a wider definition of "victim" in terms of the existing Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act.
Anglican Archbiship Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Friday that without someone like Nelson Mandela the new South Africa may not have got past first base.
South African Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya announced on Friday that 3,4-million children were now registered to receive a R160 a month child support grant — for the poorest of the poor.
Metrorail chief executive Honey Mateya says the state urban rail transport authority backed concessioning of this sector "four or five years ago" but this had been put on hold by Transnet and the South African government to attend to backlogs.
Gauteng has notched up the highest figure in South Africa for abandoned babies, accounting for 268 of the 409 babies abandoned nationally last year, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
South Africa’s semi-privatised telephone utility Telkom is facilitating a quest for a world record for the most birthday wishes ever received by an individual on one day.
South African members of Parliament (MPs) were clearly informed of the procedures applying to the travel voucher scheme — now the subject of a forensic audit — as far back as August 2001, according to a circular issued by Parliament.
State rail utility Spoornet receives revenue of R1,8-million a year for leasing 10 passenger coaches to the rail organisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe.
The number of mine workers who are HIV positive is not known with certainty but rates are estimated at about 30% in the gold mining industry in South Africa, says Minerals Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
The extent of fraud involving travel vouchers used by South African Members of Parliament can’t yet be conclusively determined but the investigation may take several months, says National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala.
More people tend to die of HIV/Aids than all those who died in wars fought in South Africa during the past two centuries, says South African Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi.