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2002/12/05
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 4 December
Cabinet was briefed on preparations for the deployment of a multi-sectoral Interim Management Team (IMT) to assist the Eastern Cape Provincial Administration with governance and provision of services. * Armscor Bill, which establishes the corporation as a public entity dealing with acquisition for the SANDF and improves corporate governance arrangements in the corporation; * Road Traffic Management Corporation Amendment Bill, which improves the structure and systems of the Board; * National ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/11/20
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 20 Nov
Cabinet today received a briefing on the work of a Task Team made up of Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Departments of Health, Home Affairs and Social Development on the causes of death in SA between 1997 and 2001. At the Cabinet meeting, the Deputy President and Ministers who had not yet done so, appended their signatures in a Special Commemorative Book of Pledges in support of the campaign; and government urges all South Africans to sign the ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/11/06
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 6 Nov
Cabinet noted and welcomed progress that has been made in Abuja at the meeting of the NEPAD Heads of State Implementation Committee, regarding the implementation of the NEPAD programme. Cabinet approved the presentation of a number of international conventions to Parliament for ratification: * the SADC Protocol on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation; * the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts; * the AU ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/10/23
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 23 October
The following Bills were approved for submission to Parliament: * Special Pensions Amendment Bill and Government Employees Pension Fund Increase (Members of Non-statutory Forces) Bill which provides for the recognition of previous service of former NSF members; * Local Government: Municipal Structures Second Amendment Bill which is intended to enable the Western Cape Government (at its request) to introduce the Executive Mayor type of system in its municipalities; * Compulsory HIV Testing of ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/09/18
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 18 September
Cabinet was briefed on on-going discussions in Nedlac around the matter of pending labour action by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). The following Bills were approved for submission to Parliament: * Amendments to the Usury Act which seeks to address the problem of unregistered micro-lenders that may be contravening provisions of the Usury Act; * Judicial Matters Amendment Bill which contains ad hoc amendments to various relevant Acts; * National Development Agency ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/08/07
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 7 August
* Intelligence Services Bill, which provides for the regulation of conditions of service and skills provision; * Electronic Communications Security (Pty) Limited Bill which provides for the setting up of an agency to provide electronic communications services to government; * Intelligence Services Control Amendment Bill, which amends provisions on accountability of the Inspector-General for Intelligence and vetting of Parliamentary Oversight Committee members; * National Strategic ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/06/26
Statement on Cabinet Meeting, 26 June
Although government has reservations regarding the main ruling of the Cape High Court on this matter, it does accept the decision of the Court. The following Bills were approved for submission to Parliament: * Constitution of the RSA Fourth Amendment Bill providing for a change in the name of the Northern Province to Limpopo; and * Constitution of the RSA Third Amendment Bill, which further clarifies competencies and relationships between national and provincial government on the one hand, ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/06/12
Statement on Cabinet Meeting, 12 June
The following Bills were approved for submission to Parliament: * Higher Education Amendment Bill which amends the 1997 Act to provide for changes to the size of councils, quality assurance and mergers; * Education Laws Amendment Bill amending a number of Acts passed from 1996 to 2001; * Security Services Bill which improves the regulation of listed and unlisted financial instruments; * Amendments to the Special Pensions Act to improve operations of the Board; * Administrative Adjudication of... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/05/29
Statement on Cabinet Meeting, 29 May
An element of transformation, based on the National Plan for Higher Education, and which will affect all higher education institutions, is the creation of a new institutional landscape. The meeting also approved the International Trade Administration Bill which, among other things, establishes a Commission for International Trade Administration (CITA) which replaces the Board for Tariffs and Trade (BTT). Cabinet received a comprehensive report on the implementation of the "Road to Safety ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/05/15
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 15 May
The meeting was informed that the Department of Communications and Icasa had resolved the matter of the offer for the Black Economic Empowerment component of the Second National Operator. Cabinet examined preparations for Child Protection Week (25 May - 1 June), which this year will be used to launch a campaign for the registration of children for the Child Support Grant. * The Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption, and the ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/04/30
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 30 April
Cabinet discussed proposals from the Department of Education processed from the Report of the National Working Group on "The Restructuring of the Higher Education System in South Africa". * General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance Council, to be chaired by Dr C Lubisi; * Board of the Land and Agricultural Bank chaired by Mr Jethro Mbau; * Water Research Commission chaired by Dr HC Kasan; * National Water Advisory Council chaired by Mr IW Modisha; * Board of Rand Water ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/04/19
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 17 April
Cabinet approved the proposed relocation of Durban International Airport to La Mercy and the renaming of the relocated airport, "King Shaka International Airport". It also approved, in principle, the KwaZulu-Natal Logistic Gateway incorporating the Dube Trade Port Industrial Development Zone and King Shaka Airport. The following appointments were approved: * Board of the Independent Development Trust, chaired by HMS Msimang; * Board of Tariffs and Trade, chaired by Prof RT Bell; * Members of ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/03/20
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 20 March 2002
In this regard, Cabinet congratulated President Thabo Mbeki for the role that he and President Olusegun Obasanjo in particular have played to ensure that the Commonwealth addresses the most critical issues facing Zimbabwe in the current period. In pursuit of the Commonwealth's and our own objectives, the South African government will continue to relate to the Government of Zimbabwe as the elected government of that country. Cabinet noted the policy intentions outlined in the Revised National ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/03/06
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 6 March
* The principle of a dedicated Appropriation Bill regarding unexpected expenditure for the Burundi deployment; * The principle of a dedicated Appropriation Bill on payment of outstanding social grants * A package of Bills dealing with defection of members from parties within which they were elected in the PR system - Local Government: Municipal Structures Amendment Bill, Constitution of the RSA Amendment Bill and an amendment addressing the consequential issue of the composition of the NCOP. ... [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/02/20
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 20 February
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV forms part of Government's programme of HIV/AIDS prevention. At the International AIDS Conference in Durban in July 2000, research was presented on the use of Nevirapine to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Based on these results, Government developed a more comprehensive programme to reduce HIV transmission to babies and to conduct further research on the subject. [highlighted result]
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0.7966
2002/02/06
Statement on Cabinet Meeting - 6 February
At its meeting today, Cabinet formally adopted decisions of the lekgotla which was held in January. Cabinet re-affirmed an earlier decision on the need for a nationally co-ordinated programme on the changing of geographical and place-names, and a report on the matter will be presented to Cabinet as a matter of urgency. Cabinet approved the Collective Investment Schemes Control Bill providing for regulation and supervision of all varieties of collective investment schemes including unit trust ... [highlighted result]
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