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/ 18 January 2011
The state law adviser on Tuesday presented MPs with more than 60 pages of suggested further changes to the Protection of Information Bill.
Cosatu is not denouncing government’s new draft labour legislation, but rather bracing for a fight with labour brokers, it says.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Monday called for structural changes to the South African economy.
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/ 10 November 2010
Ruling party MPs accepted changes to the Protection of Information Bill to protect whistle-blowers, but baulked at doing the same for the media.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema launched a stinging attack on Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi on Friday night.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement on Wednesday will shed light on the state’s spending priorities.
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/ 12 October 2010
All South Africans must be made to feel part of Heritage Day, even if that meant accepting that some would gather around a braai.
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/ 15 September 2010
Parliament’s defence committee has laid down arms in a battle with Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu over reports on service conditions in the military.
The head of the Hawks, Anwa Dramat, has questioned whether it is in SA’s interest to pursue remaining investigations linked to the arms-deal scandal.
A briefing by the SABC board to Parliament on Tuesday will take place behind closed doors, a spokesperson for the legislature said.
Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils has called on the government to rethink the controversial Protection of Information Bill.
Chief state law adviser Enver Daniels on Tuesday dismissed an avalanche of criticism of the Protection of Information Bill.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will soon meet the Auditor General to discuss World Cup ticket purchases of R130-million by state entities.
Eskom’s World Bank loan is subject to conditions on combating corruption and mitigating the impact of greenhouse gas pollution, Pravin Gordhan said.
The car in which Nelson Mandela’s great grand-daughter died was driven by the son of the boyfriend of one of the former president’s daughters.
The appointment of Phil Molefe as the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) head of news was unlawful, the public broadcaster’s board said.
Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has claimed he was in the dark on prosecutions chief Menzi Simelane’s controversial plans to restructure the NPA.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says the full facts of the ANC’s involvement in Chancellor House, and through it in Hitachi Power Africa, are unclear.
South African Airways and SA Express on Tuesday denied allegations of price-fixing around the Soccer World Cup.
President Jacob Zuma’s declaration of interests lists gifts ranging from a rose bowl from Absa’s Maria Ramos to free accomodation for his first wife.
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/ 2 February 2010
Axed Armscor CEO Sipho Thomo is challenging his dismissal, the chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on defence said on Tuesday.
Germany is honouring Bertolt Brecht with fanfare on the 50th anniversary of his death, hinting that the country is ready at last to embrace the playwright and poet as a national hero and forgive him for going to his grave a communist. There is no ignoring Brecht as theatres from Berlin to Bonn to Hanover dust off his plays.
Germany’s two main parties cleared the way on Wednesday for a grand left-right coalition to break the country’s political deadlock and said they would meet within a day to thrash out who would lead it. Officials in Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats said a leadership summit would be held on Thursday.
South African farmers this winter harvested the country’s first crop of genetically modified (GM) maize aimed at human consumption.
Half the countries facing famine in southern Africa are stalling food aid from the US, fearing that genetically modified maize may cause health problems and harm their exports.