Thank you for your support in 2012 Today sees our last newsletters for 2012, with the first of our new industry newsletters to be published on 15 January 2013, but we will keep on updating the new industry portals over the festive season. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support; our subscribers across all our portals continue to grow; in fact, in our new industries alone, we are now closing in on 70,000 subscribers, and for that we thank you. We want to wish all of you a very enjoyable end-of-year break and - assuming the world doesn't end on Friday (You've heard about the predictions around the Mayan calendar, right?) - we wish you a highly successful 2013. All the best from the Bizcommunity team! Rod Baker: Content Director
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Administration
Duduzile Myeni has been appointed acting chairman of SA Airways (SAA) with immediate effect‚ the department of public enterprises said on Friday(14 December). Read more >>
 Dentists want the High Court in Pretoria to set aside a government decision to impose regulations on their assistants, The Star reported on Monday (17 December). Read more >>
Former President Nelson Mandela has undergone a procedure via endoscopy to have gall stones removed. Read more >>
 Proposed amendments to the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) Act, have been strongly criticised by industry commentators who say it will erode the independence of the regulator. Read more >>
 SA National Editors' Forum (SANEF) has issued a statement in which it accuses senior government representatives of misleading the public on how the media has covered Madiba's recent hospitalisation. The complete statement is as follows: Read more >>
 Denel will retrench 523 aircraft specialists after the SA Air Force (SAAF) cancelled its contract for aircraft maintenance. The retrenchments were confirmed by Denel and the trade union Solidarity on Thursday (13 December) Read more >>
 Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and her department will today (14 December) file an appeal against a Gauteng North High Court judgment that ruled the minister had overstepped her powers when she suspended SA's Water Tribunal, the department said on Thursday (13 December). Read more >>
 [Phakamisa Ndzamela] Standard Bank said on Wednesday (12 December) its public division had signed 13 new public accounts in the past year‚ 44% more than those signed in 2011. Read more >>
 [Dr Nikolaus Eberl] With the 53rd Elective Conference of the ANC now on in Mangaung, and 33 prominent business leaders calling for a joint effort to "arrest a decline in confidence in South Africa's future" (a clarion call joined by members of the banks and the clergy), there is the question as to what exactly will restore both investor and consumer confidence post the event that is causing so much anxiety throughout the nation. Read more >>
 [Linda Ensor] The Department of Trade and Industry has created a special automotive incentive scheme for mini- and midi-bus taxis in a bid to provide incentives for local assembly and production. Read more >>
 A new infographic youth competition and launch of first global SMS campaign by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report calls on governments to help the 200 million 15 - 24-year-olds who never completed primary school and lack the skills to find decent work. Read more >>
The KwaZulu-Natal Cabinet has approached National Government in a bid to declare parts of the province worst hit by the recent flash floods and thunderstorms disaster areas. This after ferocious storms wreaked havoc in the province leaving a trail of destruction on infrastructure, property and leaving thousands of people homeless. Read more >>
The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government has appealed to the national government to declare disaster areas for those parts of the province that were hardest hit by the heavy rains in the past week. Read more >>
 [Sue Blaine] Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa contravened the constitution and the National Water Act when she suspended the Water Tribunal, a Pretoria judge ruled last week. Read more >>
An 11-member delegation from the State Council of Information Office (SCIO) in China met on Wednesday with the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) to discuss communication practices. Read more >>
 Government, working with musicians, has set up task teams to look into the challenges facing the various sectors of the music industry. Read more >>
The Presidency says doctors attending to former President Nelson Mandela have reported that he has made progress during the past 24 hours and they are satisfied with the way he is responding to treatment. Read more >>
 Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus, the bank's deputy governors, together with the bank's board members - have decided to forgo salary increases in 2013 - given the global economic outlook, said the central bank. Read more >>
Government says it has noted the "reckless" statements made by the chief economist at Pan African Investment and Research, Iraj Abedian, which were published by the Business Report regarding the alleged "absence of buy-in" of the National Development Plan (NDP) by Ministers Ebrahim Patel and Rob Davies. Read more >>
 [Paul Vecchiatto] Should the aircraft maintenance contract between Denel Aviation and the South African Air Force (SAAF) not be renewed, it would lead to the retrenchment of almost half of the state-owned company's 1,146 staff, Solidarity said on Monday (10 December). Read more >>
 Attempts by the Defence Force to fire about 600 soldiers for allegedly participating in an illegal march on the Union Buildings have suffered another setback in the courts, according to the South African National Defence Force Union (Sandu). Read more >>
 Unmanned ocean gliders are collecting data 1,000m below the surface of the Southern Ocean and sending it back to climate scientists and oceanographers. Read more >>
South Africa's National Treasury has amended the tax treatment of interest earned by non-residents. Read more >>
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) in the North West called for the expulsion of two MECs on Tuesday (11 December) Read more >>
 Plans for a makeover of South African trains that include installing air conditioning systems, security cameras and bigger seats for all passengers were unveiled by the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) on Tuesday (11 December). Read more >>
 Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba handed over 100 South African-made freight wagons to Botswana Rail on Tuesday (11 December). Read more >>
With the R1,4bn contract to supply the state with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, Cipla Medpro SA has found a remedy for its struggling manufacturing division - at least for the next two years. Read more >>
 Shale gas could provide an affordable feedstock for cleaner-burning gas-fired power plants in the country "if managed effectively and responsibly", consultancy Frost & Sullivan has said. Read more >>
 Manufacturing production in SA bounced back in October‚ increasing by 2.5% year-on-year (y/y) after a revised 1.7% (1.1%) year-on-year decrease in September‚ data released by Statistics SA on Tuesday (11 December) showed Read more >>
Dozens of employers in the farming sector on Monday said the farmworkers' demand of a daily wage of R150 was too excessive, and it could lead to thousands of workers being laid off should the new sectoral determination decree agree with the employees. Read more >>
Law Enforcement
 Foodcorp has reached a settlement with the Competition Commission relating to its investigation into collusive practices in the white maize and wheat milling industries between 1999 and 2007 and will pay an administrative penalty of R88.5m. Read more >>
The Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department has called on the public to handle the matter of missing officer, Constable Dimakatso Mable Peete, with care and sensitivity. Read more >>
 [Siphiwe Nyathi] Deaf people in Mpumalanga have asked Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana to establish a free SMS line they can use to report crime. Read more >>
Free State law enforcement authorities will be on full alert over December, the police, roads and transport department said on Monday (10 December) Read more >>
Politics
 [Linda Ensor] The Democratic Alliance (DA) has asked the South African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Oupa Magashula to investigate whether President Jacob Zuma and his donors paid taxes on the millions of rand - apparently more than R7m - that was allegedly transferred to him between 1995 and 2006. Read more >>
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