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PetroSA spends R12.5m on soccer tickets ‘to network’
PetroSA splurged R12.5-million on 1000 World Cup tickets while the Central Energy Fund (CEF) spent R...
Credit figures to reveal consumers’ health
Credit figures and a key manufacturing survey for last month will grab centre stage for domestic mar...
Eskom faces strike if wage deal is not struck tomorrow
While trade unions and Eskom management have moved closer to an agreement, unless a deal is struck t...
‘Employ SA whites rather than foreigners’
White job applicants should be given preference over foreign black candidates, Labour Minister Memba...
Compulsory vehicle insurance proposed
The Department of Transport is considering making car insurance compulsory......
Eskom wage dispute referred to CCMA
The unresolved wage dispute between Eskom and the three unions representing its workers has been ref...
Beware catch-22 of unemployment
Research overseas has found that many unemployed people are better off not applying for work at all ...
Sleep-deprived Apple fans brave rain for iPhone 4
Hundreds of fans flocked to stores in Tokyo to be the first buyers of Apple’s iPhone 4 and some li...
Mantashe stays out of battle over Transnet
African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe yesterday refused to be drawn into ...
Jobs are still being lost despite recovery
The formal nonfarm sector shed 79000 jobs in the first quarter of this year, adding to concern about...
Zuma sees World Cup boosting jobs, economic growth
President Jacob Zuma said yesterday he was confident the Fifa World Cup will boost......
New Credit Card Scam
This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they ...
Volumes fall as retailers’ hopes for pickup sour
A hefty dose of realism has knocked back hopes for a quick return to growth in SA’s retail economy...
Theft derailed train
Police are probing the theft of railway sleepers, which led to the derailment of a train with 627 pe...
Unions set deadline for Eskom
Unions have given power utility Eskom and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration...
Telkom’s full-year profit down 92%
Telkom announced today that for the year ended 31 March 2010, it posted a 92% decline in full-year p...
Economy ‘reaping rewards’ of hosting Cup tournament
The hosting of the Soccer World Cup is an economic turning point for SA , Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu s...
Game farms growing as pillar of tourism economy
Game farming and hunting is becoming an increasingly important pillar in the economic development of...
Report shows tourists’ pockets are deepening
South Africa saw a 34% increase in inbound tourism spending during the first quarter of 2010, and an...
Dames lauded as Eskom’s new CEO
Power utility Eskom has appointed Brian Dames as its new CEO, starting from next month......
Department pays R2,7m to root out corruption
The time and resources devoted by government departments to fight corruption have again been demonst...
Obama ‘to ask BP for escrow payment’
US President Barack Obama was likely to ask BP this week to set up an escrow account to pay the clai...
Robust rand reaches fresh high ahead of World Cup
The robust rand has taken a bow on the eve of the Soccer World Cup, rallying to a near three-and- a-...
Europe debt crisis drives gold price to fresh high
The price of gold surged to a record high above 1250/oz yesterday as concern about the scope of the ...
R2.3m bonus for fired Eskom chief
Former Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga was paid a R2.3-million performance bonus in February desp...
R40bn invested in public transport for Soccer 2010
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele said today that government has invested more than R40bn on publi...
Transnet invites private sector to run branch lines
Logistics group Transnet yesterday announced that it would make all 7300km of its branch railway lin...
‘Hands-on’ Dames likely to be Eskom CEO
Eskom’s Brian Dames has emerged as the front runner for the post of CEO of the utility, political ...
EU bail-out fund fails to steady euro
The euro fell to a fresh four-year low yesterday, even as Germany said it would set an example with ...
JSE down 1.20% in late morning trade
The JSE all share index fell 1.20% to 26296.910 points at 11h35 today.......
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