It's going to be a good festive season for Jelly Beanz after they were handed a cheque for R500,000 by Bernhard Maier, a member of Porsche's executive board. It's the
second sizeable donation by Porsche in as many years.
On the agriculture front,
farmers and unions have been urged to negotiate in good faith. Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has urged representatives of Agri-SA and unions to negotiate in good faith for the minimum wage demand for farmworkers. That's all very well, but in the meantime perhaps she can also urge farmworkers to remain peaceful and also not damage crops and equipment.
Come fly with me... if you can afford it!
IATA says airlines will carry 3,6bn passengers by 2016 - a rise of at least 28% in the coming years to hit 3.6 billion in 2016, with China accounting for nearly one-in-four new travellers. Keeping ticket prices reasonable would go some way towards ensuring that that prediction comes true.
Don't come fly with me...
Budgets and mechanical setbacks are hurting SANDF, which is buckling under the strain of crippling budget and mechanical setbacks. We have submarines up on blocks and Gripen fighters flying only a tiny portion of the time they should be flying. So we have all these shiny new weapons platforms... but we can't afford to run them. Brilliant!
Equally brilliant, but in a good way, is our tame motoring editor, Henrie Geyser, who waxes lyrical on the new Honda CR-V, which he reckons has
added market traction. And a lot of attractions... in action, and even when not in action.
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Stuart Noble, a director of the Financial Training Corporation (FTC), which is part of the BDO Group, has won two awards for financial training conducted for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) company Unilever, in Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. 
PRETORIA: The November Business Confidence declined marginally due to an unfavourable domestic and world economic climate, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Thursday, 6 December 2012. 
Corporate cash balances have been rising steadily since mid-2010, according to data released by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) for September 2012, that non-financial corporate cash balances are sitting at R542 billion (marginally down from their August 2012 peak of R549 billion). 
Is Old Mutual finally getting to grips with its complex international business model? Its third quarter results seem to show that it has made progress retaining assets: net client cash flow (NCCF) was still out of the door, but at least it was only £500m instead of £5,4bn. 
The SAPS crime statistics released in September may have shown a marginal decline in house robberies but Dial Direct Insurance's claims data suggests otherwise. With the festive season approaching, we are warning South Africans to be extra vigilant as they gear down and criminals gear up for the holidays. 
To maintain the standard of the chartered accountancy brand and ensure that the qualification remains relevant and competitive, the qualification process is periodically reviewed and revised. 
While each of their companies had varying degrees of success, the chief executives of three of the major casino groups in southern Africa - Tsogo Sun, Sun International and Peermont - agree that the future looks promising for the sectpr although there are still hurdles some to overcome. 
Rainbow Chicken is to raise R3.9bn of new equity by way of a renounceable rights offer‚ it said on Thursday (6 December). 
Durban's import capacity will increase sharply once a multi-billion rand project to feed an ever-increasing appetite for goods from overseas gets off the ground. 
Real gross domestic expenditure decelerated from 4.9 % previously to 3% in the third quarter of this year, said the Reserve Bank on Thursday. 
