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Minerals and Energy Minister Dipuo Peters on Thursday encouraged the community of Seraleng, just outside Rustenburg in the North West, to actively get involved in projects that would earn themselves an income.
Residents of the rural Seraleng community, just outside Rustenburg in the North West, will now be able to cook food, wash clothes and do other household chores in the evenings after being connected to the country's electricity grid.
A wall of money is rushing into stock markets around the globe. This creates the illusion that an economic recovery is underway in the big developed economies. Nothing can be further from the truth.
KARIBIB is the licensed home of 1 000 cases of packaged explosive products and 400 cases of initiating systems after AEL Mining Services, an international company for commercial explosives and blasting solutions, decided to expand its footprint into Africa with the establishment of AEL Namibia.
IT took N$120 million, just more than a year and a trip with Government's Lear jet to get the data on more than 400 000 local accounts to Namibia, but FNB Namibia manage to complete the project to upload Namibian client data onto an IBM Z-series server on Sunday.
FEW things highlight the extent of the problems facing SA's gold mining industry as the somewhat ironic news yesterday that, as the gold price broke another record, production in September fell 9,3% year on year.
SO, DO you still think the hardest job in SA is to coach Bafana Bafana? Until recently, I shared this sentiment. But I think the country has never needed African solutions more than it does now. For this reason, I think every South African taxpayer should contribute towards buying a black goat. Slaughtering a black goat is the only thing that will propitiate our ancestors to help us deal with the ...
JSE-listed Premium Properties is leading the pack as the best- performing property company, returning 29,9 % to shareholders for the year to date, followed by property loan stock company Vukile , with 24,54% returns.
A R100m revitalisation programme to overhaul Business Connexion will save the company R100m a year, but has come at the expense of almost 300 jobs.
FINANCIAL services group Sanlam said yesterday it had done two new international investment management deals -- an acquisition in the UK and the formation of a new asset manager in Asia.
AFRICAN cellular network operators need to sharpen up their acts to make a profit in countries where already poor consumers are trying to cut back their spending even further.
TWO directors of the Huge Group who sold their own private shares and committed the company to buy them back at a far higher price have each been fined R5m for their actions.
Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda has secured a saving for consumers from cellphone operators, which have agreed to an initial 36c cut in the peak mobile termination rate, from R1,25 to 89c a minute.
Gold rallied briefly to a new record peak at 1122,85/oz yesterday, while platinum, palladium and rhodium all hit their highest levels in a year on a wave of speculative buying.
MINER DRDGold said yesterday its high court application for a judicial management order over the company's 74%-owned Blyvooruitzicht operation had been granted, giving it more time to try to turn the mine around and save it from liquidation.
CHINA's biggest internet company, Tencent Holdings, in which Naspers has a 35,2% share, saw its share price rise to a record high in Hong Kong trading yesterday after the company reported profit that exceeded analysts' estimates.
THE leadership dispute at the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc) would discourage black business development and detract attention from dealing with the economic crisis, founder member Sam Motsuenyane said this week.
COMPANIES need to get to grips with the proposed new dividends tax without delay.
THE National Union of Communications Workers (NUCW) has said it supports the on-going privatisation of Zamtel because the move will help solve many problems the telecommunication company is currently grappling with.
AN independent candidate in next Thursday's Solwezi Central parliamentary by-election has pledged to open a constituency farm to create employment opportunities if elected as the Member of Parliament (MP).
TAXPAYERS in SA can expect to have their tax returns completed by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) in the near future.
RESEARCH shows religion sells products , and companies should make sure they are not missing an important marketing opportunity by not taking advantage of this new trend, Rob van Rooyen, strategic planning director for McCann Erickson SA, said yesterday.
THE letters come addressed to "Mr Mosa" because no one imagines that a woman would run Tshimo Ya Tlago Construction . Little do they know the chief is a woman, and she is only 20.
OBSERVERS have hailed the assistance pledged to Africa by Beijing during the recent Fourth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation in Egypt, pointing out that the world should not continue looking to the West for development models.
DELTA beverages has secured authority from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to go ahead with the sale of its 41 percent stake in Ariston Holdings to a European-based agro-firm.
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