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Three of SA's most dominant young players will make the South African Open Championship at Pearl Valley Golf Estates next month their next major focus, with each seeking to cap a solid season with a victory in the second-oldest Open in golf.
IT WAS a weary Springbok team that limped to a narrow defeat against France in Toulouse last Friday.
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) recorded a loss of R8,3m after rising costs and a failure to secure sponsorship for the first division plunged the company into the red.
NATIONAL selection convener Peter Jooste yesterday rubbished suggestions that selecting a Springbok midweek side for the European tour did more harm than good to the Springboks' reputation, and said they had achieved what they had set out to do with the team.
LEGISLATIVE changes are in the pipeline to protect municipal managers - the accounting officers of councils - from political interference from within their councils.
THE Cape Town Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry has bemoaned the lack of progress in Eskom's demand-side management programme , which has focused on encouraging electricity consumers to use less electricity.
The Cabinet has finally approved the introduction of no-fault-based road accident insurance, which will cut lawyers out of the system of compensation and cost the legal profession billions of rands in lost income.
SA - which derecognised its apartheid-era ally as a sovereign state and opened diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China in 1998 -- should be more flexible in its dealings with Taiwan, Lin said last month.
Cash flow problems were threatening the Human Sciences Research Council's (HSRC's) capacity to pay staff next month, Parliament heard yesterday.
RETAIL sales fell more sharply than expected in September, showing that consumers are still under heavy pressure and damping hope that a recovery in SA's economy was under way.
THE majority of SA's private equity market (70%) has achieved black empowerment and black ownership in a short time.
POWER utility Eskom yesterday announced three senior appointments to fill key vacancies in finance, primary energy and human resources.
WITH the benefit of hindsight, the introduction of independent power producers (IPPs) in SA should not have hinged so much on Eskom.
POWER cables and telecommunications equipment manufacturer Reunert yesterday posted a 28% drop in operating profit to R1,1bn for the year ended September, blaming it on the global financial turbulence.
A STUDY by Deloitte has found 9% of radio advertising booked was not broadcast as scheduled, amounting to a R270m erosion of annual advertising spending.
POLYMER Pavements, a recently formed company with the licence to a US range of plastics-based products, plans to create jobs and tackle SA's pothole-riddled provincial roads at the same time .
ABSA CEO Maria Ramos this week warned companies that have survived the recession to avoid taking unnecessary risks, saying the downturn had provided bitter lessons to those with weak survival strategies.
THE Western Union Company and FX Africa Foreign Exchange have entered into an agreement to offer the Western Union money transfer service in SA.
THE long-term strategy for Dimension Data ( Didata ) to move away from pushing products and offer more services is continuing to pay off, with the company reporting strong results in a generally weak environment.
POWER and automation multinational ABB's global CEO, Joseph Hogan, is optimistic about the prospects of emerging markets, even in the midst of the global recession.
METROPOLITAN Life's employee benefits division was likely to this year continue its eight-year track record of consistent growth in an industry characterised by low margins, rising costs, and weak profitability among pension fund administrators.
THE English media and Saracens' management should get over themselves. They may have emerged victorious against the Springbok dirt-trackers team, b ut the team were far from the "world champions" they claim they have beaten.
PORT Elizabeth’s Nelson Mandela Bay is preparing for another test run when the World Cup venue hosts the domestic premiership match between Cape side Santos and Kaizer Chiefs tomorrow night.
A 58-year-old woman, who sued a family friend for raping and sexually molesting her 45 years ago, has lodged a Cape High Court application for his sequestration, after he failed to pay her the amount he offered in settlement.
ID leader Patricia de Lille has vowed to fight to ensure that MPs are as accountable for their travel costs as ministers, to prevent "loopholes" in parliamentary travel policies being abused - despite tighter rules imposed since the Travelgate scandal.
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