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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.
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 World Bank has loaned Government of Botswana US$186 million (P1.2 billion) for its Integrated Transport Project, which is meant to ease traffic congestion, enhance regional integration and spur economic growth.
The Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) is today set to announce the winner of its telephone directory cover design competition, which has been running since October.
After condemning the citizens for abandoning the spirit of botho during the veldt fires that ravaged the country last year, government now intends to pay volunteers who help in fighting veldt fires.
The days of free Phane harvesting will soon be over courtesy of government intervention. Recently, the government published a bill to stop free harvesting of forest resources including Phane.
Management at a chemical recycling plant that burnt down in Bellville South is still not sure how the fire started.
Netcare911 Paramedics Have Been Dispatched to the Port Elizabeth Airport for an Aircraft Which Has Left the Runway.
SA has just 1 million broadband connections, 2%, according to an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics report.
Corporate governance and marketing may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but it's high time that they get cosy together. A current case in point is Eskom, where its marketing team must be having sleepless nights about how to salvage that parastatal's reputation. The marketing director has a key role in protecting the brand and reputation of a company - arguably its most important asset - and the ...
RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, President Mugabe has said.
Parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill to reform the central bank. In theory this should reduce the powers of bank governor Gideon Gono.
THE government should raise electricity tariffs to a level that will allow Eskom and independent power producers to operate, according to consultants Frost & Sullivan.
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