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GROSS domestic product (GDP) figures out today may show that SA is out of recession.
Economists are expecting the newly rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figure for the third quarter to show signs that the economy is on the mend.
LOCAL business has failed to develop a consolidated position on climate change in time for crucial international negotiations in Copenhagen next month, which could see business being left out of crucial policy decisions, observers on environmental issues are warning.
IN BELVILLE on Friday, South African Revenue Service (SARS) officials had to call security to protect them from angry taxpayers who wanted to submit their tax returns even though the office was closing. In Germiston on Saturday afternoon, police were called to the SARS office because taxpayers were demanding that officials attend to them.
STANDARD Chartered Bank has reduced its Kwacha base-lending rate from 24 per cent to 21 per cent with effect from next month because of stability in the economy.
Mozambique's National Union of Building, Timber and Mine Workers (SINTICIM) has accused the General Inspectorate of Labour (IGT) of bungling its investigation into the deaths of two workers on a Maputo building site in October.
The former financial director of the Mozambican Airports Company (ADM), Hermenegildo Mavale, on Monday told the Maputo City Court that the former ADM chairman, Diodino Cambaza, on trial for swindling the company out of the equivalent of two million US dollars, ran the business on the basis of verbal instructions.
As Johannesburg gears up for 2010, increased numbers of power outtages are showing up what residents' say is the council's inability to deal with what could become a crisis.
Air Namibia-Ghana, has commenced direct flights from Accra to Johannesburg, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia .
The Zain Group net profit slumped by more than half to $144 million (shs270 billion), from the same period last year due to fluctuations in global currencies against the United States dollar, according to the companies latest financial results.
The points de-merit traffic system has not yet been implemented, says the Road Management Traffic Corporation (RMTC).
TELKOM 'S monopoly over landline communications may officially be over, but its continued control of the "last mile" of copper leading to most customers' homes will remain a stumbling block to affordable internet access in SA for some time to come.
WHAT does one make of the bizarre argument between the South African Communist Party's (SACP's) deputy general secretary, Jeremy Cronin, and the African National Congress Youth League's leader, Julius Malema, about nationalisation?
Pedestrian Kefas Kahona (19) was hit by a car in Independence Avenue in Oshakati on Saturday evening, after a 29-year-old man lost control of his car.
RUNWAY 19, the notorious runway at Eros Airport that was used for take-off in last Sunday's air crash in which three people died, has not been surveyed for safety take-off gradients, an air safety seminar revealed on Friday.
SO NOW we know what Telkom looks like shorn of its high-growth, high-earning cellphone operation, Vodacom: pretty sad. First-half profit is down nearly 40% and despite the fact that this decline was actually better than the forecast range, the market still thumped the share.
WHILE sustainability and environmental responsibility may be challenges for many businesses, the practice of inaccurate, wishful or biased reporting on sustainability still persists.
JSE-listed energy group Oando expected its oil fields Oil Mining Lease 90 and 56 to start production within the next two quarters, the company said yesterday.
MINER First Quantum has agreed to buy base metals explorer Kiwara in a 260m cash and shares deal as it seeks to expand its copper operations in Zambia. The Toronto, Canada- based First Quantum has copper mining interests in Africa, while London-listed Kiwara has a prospecting licence in Zambia.
A CONVOLUTED 21-page report covering Telkom's interim results boils down to one essential fact -- its fortunes are in decline.
SA's biggest private hospital group, Network Healthcare Holdings (Netcare), has seen increased demand for private healthcare despite the global recession, underscoring the healthcare sector's resilience to market conditions.
FRENCH power group Alstom yesterday said that it had signed a 100m contract to supply an instrumentation and control system for Eskom's Medupi power station in Limpopo.
THE Sanlam Investment Management investor confidence indices' November survey shows that the respondents increasingly consider the equity market to be expensive and they expect returns to continue to decline.
CHRISTMAS retail trading in SA will be subdued, judging from continued weak demand for packaging from industries ranging from beverages to food in the six months to September.
FUEL retailer Engen Petroleum yesterday pleaded ignorance to reports Zimbabwean authorities had thwarted its bid to acquire fuel assets in the country.
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