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17 Jul 2012
 
 
 
 
Daily podcast – July 17, 2012
PODCAST
A report compiled by former education director general Mary Metcalfe on the late delivery of textbooks in Limpopo, has found that a significant amount of textbooks owed to pupils by the basic...
 
 
Absa takeover probe needed – Crawford-Browne
PROBE
President Jacob Zuma must appoint a commission of inquiry into Barclays bank's takeover of Absa in 2005 and its link to the arms deal, activist and author Terry Crawford-Browne said on Monday. "As...
 
 
05 Jul 2012
 
 
 
Eye on the Diamonds
VIDEO
Author and activist Terry Crawford-Browne's Eye on the Money, published in 2007, was primarily an account of the international banking sanctions campaign against apartheid during the 1980s, but it...
 
 
03 May 2012
 
DA: Statement by Jack Bloom, Democratic Alliance Caucus Leader, on the party's decision to refer Gauteng toll contracts to the Public Protector (03/05/2012)
Statements
I have today requested the Public Protector to investigate the controversial Gauteng e-toll collection contracts, including a possible link with suspected arms deal corruption.
 
 
18 Nov 2011
 
News this week
UPDATE
The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) has again threatened legal action if a public interest defence clause is left out of the Protection of State Information Bill. Sanef says it is...
 
 
17 Nov 2011
 
Arms deal ConCourt bid withdrawn
News
An application to compel an inquiry into the controversial arms deal was formally withdrawn in the Constitutional Court on Thursday, with President Jacob Zuma and the government ordered to pay the...
 
 
28 Oct 2011
 
News this week
UPDATE
President Jacob Zuma has been warned that the courts will be used to hold him to the eventual recommendations of the Seriti commission of inquiry into the arms deal. "If he irrationally refuses to...
 
 
24 Oct 2011
 
Judge Seriti to chair arms inquiry
ARMS INQUIRY
Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Willie Seriti will chair a commission of inquiry into the government's arms deal, President Jacob Zuma announced on Monday.
 
 
05 May 2011
 
Con Court postpones arms deal case
ARMS DEAL
An attempt to compel President Jacob Zuma to appoint a commission of inquiry into the controversial arms deal was postponed at the Constitutional Court on Thursday.
 
 
 
 
Daily podcast – May 5, 2011
PODCAST
South Africa lagged far behind other emerging economies when it came to entrepreneurial activity, speakers at a FNB and Endeavor entrepreneurship dialogue in Johannesburg said, Ministers from the...
 
 
04 May 2011
 
Arms deal controversy to reprise at Con Court
ARMS DEAL
The Constitutional Court will be asked to order President Jacob Zuma to appoint an inquiry into the arms deal contracts that led to the now abandoned allegations of corruption against him, when it...
 
 
03 Dec 2008
 
Tutu, De Klerk call for arms probe
News
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former president FW de Klerk have called on President Kgalema Motlanthe to establish an independent commission of inquiry into the arms deal, The Star newspaper reported...
 
 
04 Mar 2004
 
Manuel: Statement on Cape High Court decision on government's arms acquisition programme (04/03/2004)
2004
PRESS STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF FINANCE TREVOR MANUEL, MP 4 March 2004
 
 
15 May 2003
 
Court case to cancel arms deal to proceed
News
Economists Allied for Arms Reduction-South Africa (Ecaar-SA) is to go ahead with litigation for the cancellation of the multi-billion rand arms deal, Ecaar-SA chairman Terry Crawford-Browne said...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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