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As the spirit of the 2010 FIFA World Cup continues among soccer fans, the South African Football Association (SAFA) has launched its official mascot called DISKI.
China and the United States (US) have signed a joint statement agreeing that the transition to a green and low-carbon economy is essential.
A new Industrial Policy Action Plan being developed by the Department of Trade and Industry aims to boost job creation by encouraging the procurement of more locally-produced goods and services for the government's infrastructure-spend programme.
The United 4 Bafana Bafana wristband initiative, a social project of the national soccer team, has raised R200 000 to hand over to four projects.
Deputy Transport Minister Jeremy Cronin has conveyed condolences to the family and friends of two Grade 12 learners who were killed in a car crash in Pinelands, Cape Town, on Monday.
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has extended its office hours at all its branches ahead of the deadline for tax season submissions.
Police have unearthed a cache of ammunition in the back garden of a Cape Town home.
IT's a little-known fact, by which I mean it's a fact I didn't know until Sunday, that the Berlin Wall came down because of two questions at a press conference. An elevated understanding of the consequences of these two questions suggests something sonorous, such as "the pen is mightier than the sword".
WILL a weak currency improve SA's competitiveness and be positive for growth and job creation, or be just a short-term solution, outweighed by longer-term damage?
FROZEN chicken probably wasn't on the menu at the ANC's tripartite alliance summit at the weekend, but in many ways it was. A stronger rand means a greater propensity by South Africans to import, and chicken is one of those imports.
IT's a most peculiar example of government spin. First you promise 500000 jobs by the end of the year. Then, a while later, you concede that maybe the target won't quite be met. But what you neglect to mention is that the jobs you promised were never real jobs in the first place: they were work "opportunities" in a public works programme.
Captain of the SA side that will take on Europe in the International Challenge at Turffontein on Saturday - reckons that Proteas skipper Graeme Smith has an easier life than him.
LEADERS of the tripartite alliance will meet again in February to assess progress on several key decisions on macroeconomic policy, including the setting up of a task team to review the mandate of the Reserve Bank.
A Pretoria police captain who was denied promotion allegedly because she is white - applied in the Johannesburg Labour Court yesterday for an order compelling her promotion to the rank of superintendent with effect from next month.
THERE is a lesson for SA in how Botswana resolved drawn-out conflicts between indigenous communities and the tourism sector over fishing resources in the Okavango Delta.
INSPECTORS from the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications will be conducting more raids around the country in the next few weeks before Christmas. This follows a swoop on and confiscation of unsafe consumer products around Gauteng last week, acting CEO Bongani Khanyile has said.
ELEVEN weeks after it began, Johannesburg's Rea Vaya bus rapid transit (BRT) service is going through a turbulent time.
ON FRIDAY I told you that Jean and I were building a high- dividend yield portfolio as part of our own main portfolio and that we had bought shares in the construction company Stefanutti Stock Holdings (Stefstock). I wrote also that the staring point was a share price of R10,70 with a historic earnings yield of 17,3% and a dividend yield of 5,4%.
HARMONY Gold "is busy looking at alternatives" to retrenching more than 2000 workers at three aging mine shafts, a spokeswoman said yesterday, as mining unions considered legal action to save the jobs.
JUNIOR miner Simmer & Jack and its empowerment partner, Vulisango, look set for another showdown, after Vulisango called an extraordinary general meeting at which it seeks to have CEO Gordon Miller, chairman Nigel Brunette and other board members ousted.
MIX Telematics , the fleet management and vehicle-tracking group, said yesterday that trading conditions were "exceedingly difficult" as a strong rand squeezed profit and the group battled to win big contracts.
CONSTRUCTION group Murray & Roberts has created a new company called Murray & Roberts Projects to implement large-scale engineering procurement in the Southern African Development Community region.
LOCAL investment house Convergence Partners is moving into Tanzania with a deal to buy 35% of WIA, which supplies wireless voice and data services to corporate clients.
BARLOWORLD , which represents brands including Caterpillar and Avis in SA, halved its dividend for the year to September after a tough period characterised by global and local recession and a strengthening rand.
PLATINUM miner Lonmin reported a loss in the year to September, dragged down by a slump in the precious metal prices, higher costs and lower production output.
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