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AT least US$3,1 million has so far been grossed in toll fees since the process started in August this year, a Parliamentary portfolio committee heard yesterday.
MDC-T has fired its South African executive amid allegations of misappropriation of funds and abuse of resources among other issues.
THE liquidity crunch in the economy has continued to dampen sales in the property market resulting in some players in the industry becoming innovative in their approach.
Residents of Table View north of Cape Town are furious with the city for allowing a taxi rank to operate on Blaauwberg Road outside the Bayside Mall.
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.
MINIMUM-WAGE earners belonging to trade unions on average had to make do with an increase of N$188 last year, but because of high inflation, the buying power of their monthly N$2 190 dropped by more than three per cent compared to 2007.
AIR Namibia has launched a new flight service to Accra, Ghana.
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.
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.
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.
RECOVERY was coming slowly to Astral Foods, SA's second-largest chicken producer said yesterday, as lower consumer spending reduces the benefit of falling costs on feed such as maize that hurt the company early in the year.
INVESTMENT in agriculture is a panacea to ending the global food crisis and the UN World summit on Food security taking place in Rome, Italy must be seen against this background.
VICE-PRESIDENT George Kunda has said the Government intends to increase on the number of peasant farmers to benefit from the fertiliser support programme (FSP) as this is one of the effective ways of combating poverty in rural areas.
THE Church has implored the Government to audit books of accounts for the Taskforce on Corruption because the investigative wing was using public funds.
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