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New Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has admitted that this year’s growth target of 2.7 per cent now looks unattainable.
Official data says the murder rate in South Africa has gone up for the second consecutive year, with 17068 murders in 2013/14.
Eskom provides 95 per cent of the country's power.
Nene on Wednesday presented his maiden Medium Term Budget Policy Statement.
Pretoria and New Delhi are also implementing a series of development projects under the IBSA Fund in Palestine.
In 2009, the British government had revoked South Africa’s visa free status.
Eskom will be raising additional debt in the region of 50 billion rand, over and above its original plan of 200 billion rand.
South Africa had sent in military troops to Lesotho during an earlier political stand-off and subsequent fighting in 1998.
Russia takes over the leadership of BRICS from Brazil next year.
