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Zuma pull out his guns – N24

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President Jacob Zuma took a strong stand at this weekend’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting in Irene in Gauteng, defending his position on the issue of land expropriation without compensation, and challenging his critics to read the ANC’s 2012 conference resolutions if they disagreed with his views. City Press heard that Zuma had “set the..
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New Tax Tables For 2017: This Is How Much You Will Pay

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Following the announcement of new tax changes for the 2017/18 financial year by finance minister Pravin Gordhan, the country’s tax tables have been updated. One of the biggest changes announced by the finance minister is the introduction of a new tax bracket, aimed at the country’s wealthy. South Africans who earn more than R1.5 million..
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Replacing South Africa’s finance minister, or his deputy, would carry a heavy cost

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Many see the decision by South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) to send the disgraced former CEO of the power utility Eskom to parliament as the precursor to another attack on the National Treasury and to remove finance minister Pravin Gordhan. The decision to give Brian Molefe a seat in the country’s parliament has..
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Conspiracy, disinformation and Zuma-Gordhan fight loom over budget

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A year after President Jacob Zuma began feuding with his Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan over control of the nation’s purse strings, the conflict appears to be coming to a head. When he presents his annual budget in Parliament on Wednesday, Gordhan will seek to keep state spending in check and fend off a junk credit..
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ANC plans ‘constitutional revolution’ on land

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The government is planning a “constitutional revolution” to fast-track land reform, including considering expropriation without compensation. The ruling party also wants land reform to include restitution for “precolonial dispossession” before the 1913 Native Land Act came into force, and a cap on the amount of land an individual can own. With most South African land..
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The nuts and bolts of radical economic transformation

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At President Jacob Zuma’s second inauguration, he vowed that economic transformation would “take centre stage” during his last term of office. He promised that “the structure of the economy will be transformed through industrialisation, broad-based black economic empowerment and through strengthening and expanding the role of the state in the economy”. That the economy would..
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The Truth And Lies Of Zuma’s SONA 2017

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Amidst unprecedented security measures, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma delivered his tenth State of the Nation Address on 9 February 2017. We fact-checked his speech. Claim: “To date, nearly 7 million households have been connected to the grid and now have electricity.” Verdict: Correct South Africa’s development indicators showed that 6,340,321 households had been connected..
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A MUST READ: Zuma’s Secret Blueprint For Total Power – Lily Gosam

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An ambitious plan to redraw provincial boundaries, control the treasury and conclude mega-deals to keep the ANC under Zuma control was hatched  * Lily Gosam is a pseudonym  INTRODUCTION In 2009 [president] Jacob Zuma secured the highest office in the land, in large part due to the composition of South Africa’s 1994 provincial map. And..
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