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Daily News Bulletin – No 245 September 02, 2010

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Compiled by the Operations Centre,

Dept of International Relations & Cooperation (DIRCO)

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THE PRESIDENCY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

  • President Zuma under fire over Oilgate scandal
  • South Africans stranded in Mozambique after food riots

AFRICAN UNION (AU) & REGIONAL (SADC)

  • Development of African agricultural projects attracting investors
  • Media briefed about anticipated SADC regional economic integration
  • Mozambique riots kill six

POLITICS & ELECTIONS

  • Pres Zuma’s team to blame for ‘ugly’ strike

ECONOMICS; FINANCE; TRADE & INDUSTRY; MINING; ENERGY; PUBLIC ENTERPRISES

  • JSE says 18% of top-100 in black hands
  • Development of African agricultural projects attracting investors
  • Department discloses mining right applications
  • Arts are an untapped source of jobs for SA youth
  • Sita warns it will cut off services over R800m debt

JUSTICE & CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; POLICE; DEFENCE; NATIONAL SECURITY; CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

  • New pension policy ‘could lead to fraud’

TRANSPORT; COMMUNICATION & MEDIA ISSUES; SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

  • Rules to give Protector more teeth up for comment

ENVIRONMENT & WATER AFFAIRS; AGRICULTURE, FISHING & FORESTRY; LAND AFFAIRS

  • Call to save Africa’s rhinos
  • New ‘green tax’ on passenger vehicles implemented
  • Processed food imports dent jobs
  • India’s largest iron producer in joint venture with Cosatu company

SPORTS

  • SA defeat Spain at the Women’s World Cup
  • Vuvuzelas banned by Uefa

FEATURES; OPINIONS; ANALYSIS

  • Working poor vs State Moguls by Zwelinzima Vavi
  • Outcomes-based education is dead…. Long live OBE by Jane Hofmeyr

EDITORIAL COMMENT

  • Only a genuinely independent board will save the SABC

SA MARKET STATISTICS

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Daily News Bulletin – No 243 Tuesday– August, 31 2010

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Dept of International Relations & Cooperation (DIRCO)

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THE PRESIDENCY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

  • SA, India link up for business

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

  • Serbia backs SA for UN Security Council seat
  • SA miners can export sought-after mining skills, says Mr Motsepe
  • Trade ‘centre of gravity’ shifts – India Show
  • India’s developmental model an inspiration to SA
  • Taj opens first five-star hotel in SA to bolster growth

AFRICAN UNION (AU) & REGIONAL (SADC)

  • Zimbabwe secures $50m loan to revive economy
  • Kenya will not help ICJ
  • Libyan leader Kadhafi seeks EU cash to prevent ‘black Europe’

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  • Premier calls striking workers to order
  • Officials had ‘flagrant disregard’ for the rules

POLITICS & ELECTIONS

  • Drop ANCYL President Julius Malema punishment: ANCYL
  • League wants to ‘radicalise’ ANC
  • Veterans ask to meet leaders

ECONOMICS; FINANCE; TRADE & INDUSTRY; MINING; ENERGY; PUBLIC ENTERPRISES

  • Budget deficit ‘on track to decline’
  • Saipa warns taxpayers
  • Businesses find payroll tax ‘burdensome’
  • Steep fall in rate of company failures
  • Mining and energy to spend R180m on treating water

JUSTICE & CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; POLICE; DEFENCE; NATIONAL SECURITY; CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

  • Strike halts criminal trials
  • Attorneys to draft free wills

EDUCATION; ARTS & CULTURE; SPORT & RECREATION

  • SADTU denies it is two-timing

TRANSPORT; COMMUNICATION & MEDIA ISSUES; SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

  • Minister to meet board for talks on SABC strife
  • Journalism schools reject tribunal
  • Civil groups to protest media restrictions
  • SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle to contest suspension in court

ENVIRONMENT & WATER AFFAIRS; AGRICULTURE, FISHING & FORESTRY; LAND AFFAIRS

  • Tractor boost for small farmers

HEALTH; HOUSING; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; WOMEN, CHILDREN & DISABLED

  • New housing policy ‘to curb corruption’

PUBLIC SERVICE & ADMINISTRATION; LABOUR; HOME AFFAIRS; PUBLIC WORKS

  • Government tables revised offer in bid to end strike
  • Water sector strike on hold
  • Factories at a standstill as tyre industry strikes
  • Labour Minister offers CCMA services

SOCIAL; GENERAL

  • Alice Walker to honour Steve Biko

SPORTS

  • Match-fixing back in spotlight

FEATURES; OPINIONS; ANALYSIS

  • ‘India is an opportunity for South African firms’ by Mzwandile Jacks
  • Rapid growth the only way to rid SA of stubborn poverty by Ann Bernstein and Anthony Altbeker

EDITORIAL COMMENT

  • Always a political hand to spoil

SA MARKET STATISTICS

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Daily News Bulletin – No 242 Monday – August, 30 2010

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THE PRESIDENCY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

  • President Zuma is not yet out in the cold
  • President Zuma orders ministers to return to negotiating table

AFRICAN UNION (AU) & REGIONAL (SADC)

  • Zimbabwe’s Central Bank to lay off 85% of staff
  • Museveni seeks another term in office

PARLIAMENT & LEGISLATION

  • Youth unemployment ‘ticking time bomb’: Mdladlana

POLITICS & ELECTIONS

  • Strained alliance likely to be top of ANC agenda
  • Mr Nzimande: ‘Freeze government ministers’ salaries’
  • SACP calls for debate on tribunal
  • ANCYL president Julius Malema pleads with ANCYL delegates to spare deputy
  • Alliance: SACP confident

ECONOMICS; FINANCE; TRADE & INDUSTRY; MINING; ENERGY; PUBLIC ENTERPRISES

  • The economic week ahead: Disappointing figures may support rate cut
  • DBSA help for Eskom, Transnet capex projects
  • BHP Billiton dims lights on SA growth
  • No World Cup boost for Sun International
  • Harmony plans to eke out SA gold mine ore reserves
  • Ithala boss suspended

JUSTICE & CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; POLICE; DEFENCE; NATIONAL SECURITY; CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

  • Police boss warns strikers
  • Denel’s turnaround bears fruit as red ink shrinks to R246m
  • Suspended SABC chief ‘will fight board’s charges’
  • More soldiers deployed to state hospitals as action continues

TRANSPORT; COMMUNICATION & MEDIA ISSUES; SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

SABC staff back suspended CEO

HEALTH; HOUSING; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; WOMEN, CHILDREN & DISABLED

  • Help for patients hit by strike

PUBLIC SERVICE & ADMINISTRATION; LABOUR; HOME AFFAIRS; PUBLIC WORKS

  • State strike rumbles on, no talks scheduled
  • Tyre, rubber workers start strike today
  • Union sued for R66m
  • Cosatu welcomes Zuma’s intervention

FEATURES; OPINIONS; ANALYSIS

  • Zuma has a fight on his hands by Justice Malala
  • White men use doublespeak to bamboozle blacks by Eric Myeni

EDITORIAL COMMENT

  • Growth, inflation make it hard to call

SA MARKET STATISTICS

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