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0.8350
1999/02/17
The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement which we tabled in Parliament on 2 November 1998 set out the macroeconomic context, fiscal policy goals and the budget framework. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has had considerable success in broadening the tax base and combating tax evasion. Consistent with the framework set out in the 1998 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, our budget deficit will be 3,5 per cent in 1999, coming down to 3 per cent in 2000 and 2001. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99217_budget99_10158.htm Size: 59KB Source: MINISTRY OF FINANCE Speaker: MANUEL Collection: gov
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0.8350
1999/03/10
NZIMANDE: PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET SPEECH, NA
This Department, as the Minister has so carefully articulated, delivers a variety of services, with Prestige Accommodation, which is my main responsibility, featuring prominently within the activities of the Department. Prestige accommodation services are rendered to the President and Deputy President, Cabinet members, Deputy Ministers, and in Cape Town, heads of departments and other sessional officers, official residences for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, the ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/0009081144a5002.htm Size: 16KB Source: MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS Speaker: NZIMANDE Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/12
MOOSA: PROV AFFAIRS, CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUDGET VOTE
Madam Speaker and honourable members, my speech this morning will deal with the Constitution, Masakhane, local government transformation, municipal infrastructure and traditional leadership. The institutional transformation of local government has been spelt out by two key pieces of legislation promulgated last year - the Municipal Demarcation Act and the Municipal Structures Act. On the 29th March 1999 we will be launching the Local Government Transformation Programme, a multi-stakeholder ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99316_moosa99_10290.htm Size: 31KB Source: PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS, CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT Speaker: MOOSA Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/04
NGUBANE: ARTS, CULTURE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY BUDGET VOTE
These include: - the Pan South African Language Board (PANSALB), the National Research Foundation (NRF), the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI), the National Arts Council (NAC), the National Archives Commission, the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), the National Heritage Council (NHC), the National Heritage Resources Agency (NHRC) and the National Geographical Names Council. Madam Speaker, in the first round of the Innovation Fund in which R30 million was invested, my ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99310_nguban99_10259.htm Size: 43KB Source: ARTS, CULTURE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY Speaker: NGUBANE Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/08
NAIDOO: COMMUNICATIONS BUDGET VOTE, NA
They are: Canada Post, Deutsche Post, La Poste and New Zealand Post/Royal Mail. Each of these candidates is capable of making a significant contribution to the development of the SA Post Office into a world class company able to deliver efficient and effective services to its customers and the people of South Africa. An independent survey released recently ranked South Africa 23rd in terms of telecommunications and information technology investment, 4th largest in the world in terms of ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99309_naidoo99_10253.htm Size: 18KB Source: POSTS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, BROADCASTING Speaker: NAIDOO Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/09
MODISE: DEFENCE BUDGET VOTE, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
That was whether the military would show loyalty and commitment to democratic change, and whether we would be able to unite former adversarial forces into a unified defence force. There have been major changes in Defence policy and in the culture and values of our defence force. All the aforementioned have played an historic role in the transformation of the Department of Defence and creation of our South African National Defence Force. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99309_modise99_10252.htm Size: 27KB Source: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Speaker: MODISE Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/04
NZO: FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET VOTE, NA
The democratisation process in South Africa contributed to the transformation of the Southern African Development Coordinating Committee into the Southern Africa Development Community - an organisation devoted to the economic development of our countries, economic integration in our region, democratisation, peace and stability. South Africa will lead the Movement over the next three years to enhance cooperation amongst the countries of the South ensuring that the positions and concerns of the... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99304_nzo99_10231.htm Size: 28KB Source: DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Speaker: NZO Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/02/24
KUSCUS: NORTH WEST PROVINCE BUDGET SPEECH
Our SMME Support Programme grew from R8 million in 1995 to R40 million in 1997 and in the current financial year stabilised at R15, 5 million. The budget for the Department of Finance and Economic Affairs amounts to R158, 175 million. Key programmes of this department are support to SMME (R15, 5 million), investment promotion (R3 million) and the Y2K (R10 million). [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99225_nwbudg99_10200.htm Size: 42KB Source: NORTH WEST PROVINCE Speaker: KUSCUS Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/09
MAHARAJ: TRANSPORT BUDGET VOTE, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
The first assumption we questioned as we tackled transformation in the national Department of Transport was the role of government in transport and the institutions that were created to fulfill these functions. The national Department of Transport is today an organisation of 250 people clearly focussed on transport policy development, strategic planning and implementation, and regulation and safety. Last year we established four agencies: the Civil Aviation Authority, the Cross-Border ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99310_mac-b99_10258.htm Size: 23KB Source: MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT Speaker: MAHARAJ Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/19
FRASER - MOLEKETI: WELFARE BUDGET VOTE, NA
On the basis of that mandate, we set out five years ago to build "a life for all" the children, women, older persons and families under our care. The Department of Welfare and Population development is more than just a cornerstone of the Reconstruction and Development Programme. In keeping with our development focus as outlined in the White Paper on Social Welfare, we have launched a comprehensive restructuring process to transform welfare service delivery to those who are most vulnerable, in... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990621317p1001.htm Size: 23KB Source: MINISTRY WELFARE, POPULATION DEVELOPMENT Speaker: FRASER - MOLEKETI Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/23
METCALFE: EDUCATION BUDGET SPEECH
I wish to take this opportunity to express my thanks to all the members of the Gauteng Department of Education for the remarkable contribution they have made, through their unstinting commitment, to the transformation of education in the province. * When the schools currently under construction are complete, we will have built over 100 new schools. * Increasing access to special education, and removing as many barriers as possible to learning in an inclusive environment * Intensifying work on... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990504833a1005.htm Size: 15KB Source: GAUTENG PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT Speaker: METCALFE Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/09
ERWIN: TRADE AND INDUSTRY BUDGET VOTE, NA
These are the chairpersons of the very important family of DTI institutions and regulatory structures and the Chief Executive Officers that run organisations in the broad DTI family. The budget programming reflects the very considerable improvement in the co-ordination between trade policy ( prog. Just prior to the election in 1994 the ANC's Department of Economic Policy, working with teams that helped draw up the RDP, prepared a document called the ANC Trade and Industry Policy Guidelines. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990504833a1001.htm Size: 23KB Source: MINISTRY TRADE AND INDUSTRY Speaker: ERWIN Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/10
SIGCAU: BUDGET VOTE, PUBLIC ENTERPRISES
The Ministry for Public Enterprises plans as its marquee project to combine the information technology assets of Datavia, Ariel Technologies and Eskom on the one hand, and the telecommunications assets of Transtel and Eskom on the other hand. * Eskimo's skills and expertise are already shared through subsidiaries such as Technology Services International, Trans- Africa Projects, Electricity Africa and Rotek. The strategy of Spoornet is to secure the survival of rail, not only in South Africa ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990428404p1004.htm Size: 32KB Source: MINISTRY OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES Speaker: SIGCAU Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/15
MDLADLANA: 1999/2000 LABOUR BUDGET VOTE, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
This included ensuring that our labour market policies promoted economic growth and restructuring, enhanced employment, sound and stable labour relations, the elimination of workplace inequality and discrimination, and skills development. Madam Speaker, jobs, jobs, jobs, is what this government promised the South African people. The primary pieces of labour legislation in this regard are the Nedlac Act, Labour Relations Act, the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, the Skills Development Act ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990401534p1005.htm Size: 26KB Source: MINISTRY OF LABOUR Speaker: MDLADLANA Collection: gov
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0.7966
1999/03/23
MBEKI: BUDGET VOTE, OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT
We are approaching the end of the life of the first democratic parliament of the people of South Africa. Despite all this, millions have already experienced significant improvement in the quality of their lives as the President, the Ministers and Deputy Ministers have explained during this budget session. We will ensure that these policies live, through a heightened offensive for change, sustained by the unity of our people behind the vision of the creation of a democratic, peaceful, ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990325300p1001.htm Size: 26KB Source: OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT Speaker: MBEKI Collection: gov
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0.7741
1999/03/08
Over the past year, the Secretariat of GCIS has started, at a breathless pace, to transform government communications into an integrated system. Secondly, by ensuring that regional offices become the hub of government communications, with the majority of staff being communicators; and above all, building closer working with Provincial Governments. Based on research by government for purposes of government communication, this strategy provided for the overarching message which government uses ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99308_budget99_10244.htm Size: 23KB Source: GCIS Speaker: E PAHAD Collection: gov
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0.7741
1999/03/02
MANDELA: PRESIDENT'S BUDGET VOTE
The government's commitment to social development and the reduction of poverty informs the Reconstruction and Development Programme. The projects are carried out within the framework of government's reconstruction and development programme, and in partnership with communities and the provincial governments. And in particular, peace is the greatest weapon that any community or nation can have for development. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99302_pres-b99_10221.htm Size: 25KB Source: OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Speaker: MANDELA Collection: gov
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0.7741
1999/03/10
ASMAL: WATER AFFAIRS & FORESTRY BUDGET VOTE
It is not government which is exporting crates of South Africa's Bambamanzi pre-paid water meters to clients across the world; it is not government which has established Water South Africa to co-ordinate the marketing of our water expertise abroad. The National Water Act deepens Government's neglected role as public trustee of the nation's water resources. South Africa's two major international water projects, Lesotho and the Komati River Development, continue to progress well. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990713916a1003.htm Size: 32KB Source: WATER AFFAIRS & FORESTRY Speaker: ASMAL Collection: gov
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0.7741
1999/03/16
NGUBANE: DEBATE IN THE NCOP ON DACST BUDGET VOTE
These include: - the Pan South African Language Board (PANSALB), the National Research Foundation (NRF), the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI), the National Arts Council (NAC), the National Archives Commission, the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), the National Heritage Council (NHC), the National Heritage Resources Agency (NHRC) and the National Geographical Names Council. Like the NRF, the National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) is one of the strong institutions ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990628215p1003.htm Size: 27KB Source: MINISTRY ARTS, CULTURE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY Speaker: NGUBANE Collection: gov
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0.7741
1999/03/09
SKOSANA: CORRECTIONAL SERVICES BUDGET VOTE
We in the Department of Correctional Services have embarked on a "Back to Basics" - approach in our prisons. During the period 1993 up to 1997, the Department of Correctional Services was experiencing serious problems with escapes from prisons. The issue of Aids and HIV in prison is a further matter of concern to the Department of Correctional Services. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/990504833a1004.htm Size: 27KB Source: MINISTRY OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES Speaker: SKOSANA Collection: gov