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 | The Batseta Council of Retirement Funds for SA (Batseta) has announced the constitution of its interim board on 15 April. Read more >>
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 | South Africa has a lot going for it - two years ago we became a bona fide member of the BRICS community, we have the 17th largest stock exchange, we have a globally traded currency and we're a member of the G20. In addition, our auditing and banking industries are considered world-class. We should be the face of Africa, so why are we seeing capital outflows? Read more >>
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 | The panel of judges for the 2014 Standard Bank Sikuvile Awards have selected the finalists in each of the 14 award categories. Read more >>
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 | Gillian Jones The greatest risks to the health of the South African life assurance sector are sluggish economic growth‚ interest rate hikes and high unemployment levels‚ combined with a volatile labour environment‚ Standard & Poor's (S&P) said. Read more >>
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 | Phakamisa Ndzamela South Africa's largest short-term insurer‚ Santam‚ said last week it was looking to unwind its Europe-focused international division. Read more >>
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 | Evan Pickworth Transnet pensioners are to receive a combined R178m bonus payment by the end of April as the company moves to ensure income levels track the rising cost of living. Read more >>
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 | Mpho Sibanyoni Cash-strapped consumers are expected to be in for more of a hiding when the SA Reserve Bank's (SARB) monetary policy committee meets for the first time after the elections next month. Read more >>
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 | Franny Rabkin Companies tendering to deliver important government services risk being forced to open their books and operational information to the public, after a landmark decision of the Constitutional Court last week. Read more >>
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 | Actis, the pan-emerging markets investor, has announced that is has established Credit Services Holdings (CSH), a buy-and-build credit services business. CSH's first investment will be acquiring 100% of Compuscan, the largest independent credit bureau in Africa. Read more >>
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 | With the rebound of the South African currency against the dollar in the first few weeks of March and April this year, investors are wondering what exactly to expect from the currency for the next quarter as well as for the remainder of 2014. Read more >>
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 | Zeenat Moorad As consumer spending in South Africa remains constrained‚ retailer Clicks Group reported a 9.6% rise in turnover to R9.3bn‚ for the half-year. Read more >>
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 | The producer price index (PPI) for final manufactured goods - considered as the headline PPI - accelerated more than expected by 8.2% year-on-year (y/y) in March after increasing by 7.7% y/y in February‚ Statistics South Africa figures showed. Read more >>
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 | The real estate investment trust‚ Rebosis Property Fund reported a 9.0% rise in its distribution per linked unit to 48.5c for the six months ended February from 44.5c in the year-earlier period. Read more >>
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 | The International Finance Magazine has named Saxo Bank's TradingFloor.com the most innovative social trading platform. TradingFloor.com is the first major platform to offer multi-asset social trading. Read more >>
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 | Alistair Anderson Black-controlled Delta Property Fund will spend nearly half a billion rand for two office buildings in Durban: the Old Mutual Centre and The Marine from Old Mutual Life Assurance Company. Read more >>
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 | Mpho Sibanyoni Income from the accommodation sector displayed an annual growth of 7% for February but the growth has not trickled down to all. While one entrepreneur said she was smiling all the way to the bank, another reported a drop in earnings. Read more >>
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 | Alistair Anderson JSE-listed SA Corporate Property Fund (SAC) said it had concluded a deal to buy the entire issued share capital of Affordable Housing Company (Afhco) and its portfolio of 27 Johannesburg inner city properties‚ worth about R953m. Read more >>
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 | Motor retail group Combined Motor Holdings (CMH) reported that its diluted basic earnings per share were 154.9c for the year ended February, up from 142.4c a year ago. Read more >>
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 | TimBukOne, a provider of software and database solutions to the investor community, has launched its own online resource guide, The Stock Market eBook. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley The poultry sector could start to emerge from an extended downturn in the second half of this year‚ making it one to watch for analysts and fund managers. Read more >>
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 | Facebook's persistent appetite for acquisitions was clearly not sated by the $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February, with the company spending a further $2 billion on virtual reality company Oculus late in March 2014. Read more >>
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 | The volume of goods transported (payload) decreased by 4.4% year-on-year (y/y) in February 2014. Read more >>
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 | More than 46,000 Gauteng taxis have registered for e-tolling, as of 31 March 2014, which means they are exempted from the payment of e-tolls, says the South African National Road Agency (Sanral). Read more >>
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 | Marc Hasenfuss Combined Motor Holdings (CMH)‚ one of South Africa's biggest vehicle retailers‚ has taken a swipe at the e-tolls billing system in Gauteng. Read more >>
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 | Graeme Palmer Advances in technology have seen a significant increase in e-commerce transactions where goods and services are supplied to South African consumers through the medium of the internet. The Value Added Tax Act requires VAT to be charged on these transactions at the standard rate of 14%. Read more >>
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 | Getting a new business venture started, making it sustainable, and then being able to grow the business when opportunity arises are the major hurdles facing entrepreneurs entering the business world. A key challenge during each of these phases is the entrepreneur's ability to access finance. Read more >>
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 | THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS: Troubled Dutch telecommunications company KPN posted a 98-percent plunge in first-quarter profits, blaming competition in the hotly-contested local mobile market. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Apple courted investors with plans to split its stock as iPhone sales pushed up profits while underscoring pressure for the company to unveil "the next big thing." Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: French car company Renault has frozen a project to make commercial vehicles with Russian company Zil because of the fall of the ruble, a Renault spokesman said on Wednesday (23 April). Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: French Economist Thomas Piketty's book on income inequality rose to the top of online retailer Amazon's best sellers. Read more >>
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 | Linda Ensor About 5bn cigarettes are being produced illegally in SA each year and sold at prices well below those of legitimate, tax-paying businesses, according to estimates from the tobacco industry. Read more >>
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 | Samuel Mungadze Communications Minister Yunus Carrim says he is "reasonably satisfied" with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa's (Icasa) progress on reducing the cost to communicate since new mobile termination rates were introduced on 1 April. Read more >>
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