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MANDEVU Member of Parliament (MP) Jean Kapata has been petitioned for abrogating the Republican Constitution by her non-participation in the National Constitutional Conference (NCC).
TWO factions embroiled in a succession wrangle for Chief Chikuwe's chiefdom of the Chewa-speaking people, clashed on Monday morning at a funeral house in Chipata.
GOVERNMENT has dismissed Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata's allegations that it is scheming to get kick-backs from LITASCO, a Russian company among the bidders being considered for the supply of oil to Zambia.
TELECOMS company the Huge Group has become smaller again after posting results showing a drop in revenue, the decimation of its operating profit and a plunge from a net profit into loss.
MY PLEA yesterday for Raubex to report on defined management objectives, is a general plea to listed companies. The absence of these objectives doesn't prevent investors from measuring a company's performance but they are additional valuable information, especially when in trying to assess the management investment fundamental.
DOMESTIC and regional airline SA Express has rebranded itself to better align itself with its planned regional expansion.
SA's largest listed property group, Growthpoint Properties, yesterday made its debut on the JSE's socially responsible investment (SRI) index, based on its positive environmental, social and economic sustainability practices and corporate governance.
MOODY's Investors Service warned yesterday that Bidvest , which has signalled that it is on the acquisition trail, had "limited headroom" for a major acquisition due to concerns over the company's debt profile, weak consumer demand and potentially tight profit margins.
SANLAM, the wealth management and insurance group, said that normalised headline earnings per share had increased fivefold for the 10 months to October 31 due to a strong investment performance.
PALADIN Capital, the private equity investor that debuted on AltX in September, has acquired a 20% shareholding in privately held Spirit Capital, an emerging industrial investment company.
PETROLEUM company Total SA is considering laying off about 10%, or 80, of its employees as part of its restructuring programme.
SHARP declines in domestic manufacturing volumes and lower export coal prices saw Wescoal 's revenue fall 27% to R217,4m for the six months to September.
AILING Zaptronix has traded its way to slightly better results in the past financial year, still losing money but losing slightly less now than it did a year ago.
THE brouhaha around the appointment of Menzi Simelane as National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) is unlikely to die down anytime soon. If anything, the stout defence by Justice Minister Jeff Radebe of President Jacob Zuma 's decision to appoint Simelane, who was not even tipped by any of the pundits, has simply added fuel to the fires of criticism.
ROBERT Guest, former Africa editor for The Economist and author of The Shackled Continent, asks : "How can we teach safe sex to those who will not even wear safety belts?" Accident prone, South Africans fail to take responsibility for their lives, reflected in our chilling slide down human and social indices.
SOUTH Africans tend, for obvious reasons, to focus on the rand side of the rand - dollar exchange rate, but what about the dollar side? More specifically, instead of tearing our collective hair out about the "overvalued" rand, what about asking: how low can the dollar go?
SUN International said last night it had obtained an urgent court interdict to prevent a protest march by an expected 7000 workers belonging to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) at Sun City, which threatened to disrupt the start of the Nedbank Golf Challenge today.
BRITISH American Tobacco (BAT) SA is fighting for its constitutional right to market cigarettes.
AN impoverished rural community in the Eastern Cape celebrated a potential multimillion-rand windfall this week, after its representatives signed agreements with a Danish and South African business consortium that would give it a share in a proposed R1b n wind farm.
BLACK Africa will aim at going level with African Stars when they meet SKW at the Sam Nujoma Stadium tomorrow night. Kick-off is at 20h00.
THE man who sparked consternation on Tuesday when he swerved into the Founding President's motorcade in the North will appear in the Oshakati Magistrate's Court today.
IT is a cloudy Monday and haulage truck driver Benjie Manyemwe who is returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo pulls out of the last check point at Chirundu Border Post.
IF there is one thing that capitalism has managed to achieve over the years, it is the atomisation of communities, at home and abroad and this was the grand strategy that brought down the Soviet Empire.
Two hundred and thirteen witnesses have been lined up to testify in the trial of three men charged with swindling farmers in and around Glendale of grain worth over US$400 000.
The 2010 National Budget presented yesterday by Finance Minister Tendai Biti has drawn mixed reactions from industrialists and analysts.
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