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 | The North West Provincial Executive Council (Exco) has placed Madibeng Local Municipality under provincial administration, Premier Thandi Modise announced on Monday. Read more >>
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Sue Blaine South Africa's energy grid has received one of its first injections of wind energy since Umoya Energy's 37-turbine Hopefield wind farm was certified as fully operational 10 days ago‚ the Cape Town-based comapny said on Monday (10 February). Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser The reduced tax revenue target of R895bn for the fiscal year ending March will not be achieved given the expected drop in tax revenue‚ commentators say. Read more >>
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 | Ntsakisi Maswanganyi Companies in the shipping industry and port authorities are seeking to resolve the challenges that South Africa's high port tariffs represent and to make it easier to do business in the country‚ says Maersk South Africa's Fred Jacobs. Read more >>
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 | Joan Muller The surprise claims that empowerment fund Ascension Properties has signed agreements to sell its management company simultaneously to Rebosis Property Fund and Delta Property Fund‚ without either of the buyers knowing about the other has left property analysts stunned. Read more >>
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 | Ed Herbst "The senior management at the SABC couldn't even be bothered to do the numeracy test that was required for a proper skills assessment. The entire senior management of the SABC is in a dire, dire state." Marian Shinn, Parliament 4 February 2005 Read more >>
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 | Allan Seccombe The African Development Bank plans to make a large investment in South Africa's automotive sector with the Industrial Development Corporation‚ after a US$200m investment in a manganese project. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: North West Premier Thandi Modise has urged the residents of Majakaneng, near Brits, to give government a chance to implement its R2bn provincial water plan before staging protests. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) will this weekend open their 22,263 voting stations for a final registration drive which it hopes will attract 1.1m people. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: Efforts by the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) to clamp down on social grant fraud are yielding positive results, with the agency saving R150m a year. Read more >>
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 | The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has called on the Health Professions Council to do its job or shut down. Read more >>
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 | Auditor General Kimi Makwetu has conceded in parliament that a large number of senior managers in charge of government finances are not competent enough to occupy their positions. Read more >>
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 | While audits across national government departments and public entities improved in the 2012/13 financial year there were still billions of rand being wasted or spent irregularly‚ Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, 5 February. Read more >>
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 | Linda Ensor The banking industry's plea to be able to apply its own affordability assessments to its customers has fallen on deaf ears‚ as the Department of Trade and Industry says this system has failed to curb reckless lending and mounting over-indebtedness. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser A competitor in the market for fishing and processing canned fish‚ Saldanha Fisheries‚ is opposing the merger between Oceana and Foodcorp. Read more >>
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 | The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) reported to Parliament on Tuesday (4 February) about how students who do not need financial support defraud the scheme, with many signing affidavits to declare that their parents are dead. Read more >>
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Paul Vecchiatto Governments of resource rich countries have to be careful about how they pursue higher taxes and rents on mining companies as they could run the risk of flouting international trade rules‚ the Mining Indaba heard on Tuesday (4 February). Read more >>
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 | Stagnant economic growth has led to questions being asked about the affordability of labour, according to the Labour Market Report released on Tuesday (4 February). Read more >>
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 | Samuel Mungadze SA's software market will balloon this year as spending is forecast to increase 10.5% to US$518m (R5.7bn)‚ according to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) market analysis report. Read more >>
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 | Cape Town - As the strike in the platinum sector continues, the Minister of Energy Susan Shabangu calmed fears it would harm the industry and country by pointing out that South Africa had restored the rule of law, peace and stability in the mining sector. Read more >>
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 | The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government is considering establishing an automotive supplier park. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: President Jacob Zuma has ordered the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) to probe alleged irregularities in the affairs of the South African Post Office (SAPO). Read more >>
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 | Samuel Mungadze The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is too important to be allowed to collapse and must be placed under administration immediately‚ Media Monitoring Africa says. Read more >>
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 | Marian Shinn, the DA's Shadow Minister of Communications, says that the SABC does not have the skills to successfully transition to digital broadcasting before the international deadline of June 2015. Read more >>
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 | Chris Moerdyk At the risk of being utterly boring once again banging on about the SABC, I feel as though some sort of bizarre sense of duty requires me to comment on the completely predictable findings of a PriceWaterhouseCoopers audit on the national broadcaster... Read more >>
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 | North West Premier Thandi Modise has condemned the alleged killing of three people, whose properties were also torched at the Freedom Park informal settlement in Rustenburg. Read more >>
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 | The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) says it is shocked by the unlawful detention of freelance journalist Sandiso Phaliso in Cape Town. Read more >>
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 | The Gauteng Government has formed a high-level task team to urgently address violent protests in the province following an upsurge of violent service delivery protests in the last few weeks. Read more >>
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 | The seven people, who were arrested in connection with damaging of election material, are due to appear in the Taung Magistrates Court today. Read more >>
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