Cabinet approves tourism strategy

20 May 2010 - 13:04 By Sapa
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Cabinet has approved a draft National Tourism Sector Strategy, government spokesman Themba Maseko says.

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The draft strategy would serve as a framework for sustainable tourism growth and development in South Africa for the next five years, he said in a statement following Cabinet's regular Wednesday meeting.

The strategy would be published shortly for public comment.

Cabinet also approved the report of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee covering the period July 2009-February 2010, Maseko said.

The report would be submitted to Parliament shortly and published thereafter.

Further amendments to the draft Constitutional Amendment Bill and the Superior Courts Bill were also approved.

The new amendments were omitted from the bills approved at the last Cabinet meeting.

The first amendment was to section 176 of the Constitutional Amendment Bill and provided for the harmonisation of the terms of office of a judge of the Constitutional Court with that of judges of other Superior Courts.

The second amendment was the inclusion of section 61 (2) in the Superior Courts Bill.

This new clause provided security of tenure to the judges of the Labour Court who were not judges of the High Court for the fixed period for which they had been appointed by the president.

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