The historic distinction between attorneys and advocates is to be abolished in South Africa under a Legal Practice Bill.
The Freedom Front Plus is determined to see that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is not allowed to contest the forthcoming election.
The NPA has let it be known that it has been supplied with additional information by Zuma’s lawyers which has necessitated further investigation.
The African National Congress has launched a comic strip to boost its chances of being re-elected next month.
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/ 11 February 2009
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday that the Soccer World Cup will be one of the sources of output growth improvement in 2010.
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/ 3 February 2009
An attempt to get the arms deal inquiry reopened is to be made in Wednesday’s meeting of the standing committee on public accounts in Parliament.
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/ 21 November 2008
DA leader Helen Zille on Friday criticised ANC president Jacob Zuma for travelling in a convoy of 33 vehicles while campaigning in Limpopo.
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/ 22 October 2008
Parliament’s finance committee on Wednesday approved the Adjustment Appropriation Bill with some misgivings.
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/ 20 October 2008
In trying to encourage South Africans to save, the Treasury has realised that it has unintentionally opened a loophole in the country’s tax laws.
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/ 16 September 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has issued a stinging attack on the role of the media in the tribulations of ANC president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 15 September 2008
Bantu Holomisa, leader of the UDM, on Monday wrote to the speaker of the National Assembly to ask what the rules are for unseating a president.
Cosatu said admissions made at a conference on the mining industry’s response to the power crisis have "totally vindicated" its mass-action campaign.
South Africa needs to strengthen interventions on women’s empowerment, according to President Thabo Mbeki.
MPs on Tuesday heard a plea for auditors to be granted limited liability from legal actions.
The DA says it is disappointed by the decision of the Department of Minerals and Energy Affairs to grant mining rights on the Wild Coast.
A march by Cosatu to Parliament on Wednesday will demand that the government places an immediate freeze on food prices.
Three Bills have been tabled simultaneously in the National Assembly aimed at ending floor-crossing legislation.
Mine owners will face stiffer fines and harsher terms of imprisonment for breaches of mine health and safety rules under a new Bill.
There will be no tampering with the fuel levies to try to ease the pain of oil price increases, the Cabinet has decided.
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has accused Helen Zille, the leader of the Democratic Alliance and mayor of Cape Town, of fanning the flame of xenophobia by saying that attacks on foreigners were in part due to the fact that foreigners were selling the drug tik to South African children.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Addressing an audience in London on Wednesday, Tony Leon — the former leader of the Democratic Alliance — expressed fears that under Jacob Zuma as president, South Africa could revert to a stereotype of "Big Man", African-style kleptocracy replete with redistributive and populist economics with lashings of demagoguery.
A radically transformed revenue-collection system was envisaged by commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) Pravin Gordhan on Wednesday. Explaining the changes that Sars is implementing this year, Gordhan told Parliament’s finance committee that this year employers would be able to use Sars’s own payroll software.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Addressing the students and teachers at a University of Zululand graduation ceremony in Empangeni on Friday, African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma said that nation-building is not only about people’s attitudes. "We must understand that nation-building requires that we tackle the material differences between our people," he said.
It is now official: May 2 is to be an additional public holiday. At its fortnightly meeting in Cape Town on Wednesday, the Cabinet endorsed a proposal that it should be declared as an additional day off "to compensate workers for losing a public holiday as a result of Human Rights Day falling on the same day as Good Friday".
Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats (ID) are calling on the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance to join them in setting up a multiparty committee to debate party political funding. ID chief whip Lance Greyling said on Monday: "South Africans have been exposed to scandal after scandal when it comes to party funding."
Tony Leon, the former leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), is writing to the chair of the foreign affairs portfolio committee in Parliament, asking him to summon Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to explain what the government is doing to protect South Africa businesses from being nationalised by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 20 February 2008
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, while delivering his national budget speech in Parliament on Wednesday, made a point of replying to a number of South Africans who had sent budgetary suggestions to him under the "Tips for Trevor" programme.
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/ 19 February 2008
Looking at the options available to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel when he delivers his national budget in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the experts of the Old Mutual Investment Group reckon that he could have as much as R25-billion to play with. But how would he spend it?
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/ 18 February 2008
The goal posts for Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s spending plans in Wednesday’s national budget were carefully placed last October when he revealed his medium-term expenditure framework. However, political change and the dramatic change in economic outlook caused by the electricity crisis have set the posts whirling.
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/ 15 February 2008
Pointing out that Thursday February 21 is International Mother Language Day, the president of the African National Congress, Jacob Zuma, has called for the new schools’ pledge drawn up by the Department of Education to be recited in the different languages of the country — depending on the region.
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/ 14 February 2008
Lindiwe Hendricks, the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, on Thursday denied that South Africa is facing a water crisis. "I can categorically say that we are not facing a water crisis, or a water-contamination crisis," she told a media briefing in Parliament. "The water that comes out of our taps is among the best in the world."
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/ 13 February 2008
Former leader of the Democratic Alliance Tony Leon, who now speaks for the party on foreign affairs, has launched a scathing attack on South Africa’s plan to host a second World Conference against Racism in Durban next year. "Quite what good will come of this exercise remains open to serious question," he said.