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/ 25 October 2008
Politicians will have significant say over what
the new super SAPS unit investigates.
As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.
Zanu-PF leader Robert Mugabe has been pegged back in a week of setbacks, but is preparing to reverse his opponents’ gains in Parliament.
AfriForum on Wednesday welcomed a decision by the National Assembly’s public works committee to withdraw the controversial draft Expropriation Bill.
Sotyu proclaimed that the Scorpions would be dissolved because the ANC had decided to do so, despite public hearings into the issue.
Work has come to a halt on the Expropriation Bill, and although there been no announcement, the hold-up seems to lie with Parliament’s legal advisers.
The liquidator trying to recover money owed by MPs says the Speaker of Parliament is not giving the full story.
Despite assurances that laws abolishing the Scorpions would be passed by Parliament by June, it looks as though the crime-fighting unit is going to have a few more months to live.
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/ 12 February 2008
In the second instalment of his interview with Kgalema Motlanthe, Ebrahim Harvey speaks to the ANC deputy president about healing division in the party, unity among the alliance partners and the Polokwane ‘revolution’.
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