The other, Ebrahim Rasool, was in charge of one of the best-performing provinces, the Western Cape, but had long been scrapping with the party's local bosses.

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Of South Africa's nine provinces, only the Western Cape returned a National majority in 1994.

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The former archbishop is the president and founder of African Monitor - a group of civil society organisations that toured all nine South African provinces to mark the 10th anniversary of the National Poverty Hearings in Cape Town.

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In the Eastern Cape, for example, one of the poorest of South Africa's nine provinces, ten out of 14 provincial departments, responsible for 97% of the budget, failed to submit proper accounts for 1998-99 to the auditor-general.

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