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 | The long-term insurance ombudsman office has put R103m back into the hands of consumers who received poor service from their insurance companies last year. Read more >>
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 | Specialist online marketing research agency, Columinate, recently released its third annual 'Internet Banking SITEisfaction in South Africa' survey. Read more >>
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 | Customers must prevent criminals from hacking into their email accounts to obtain bank account information or issue illicit instructions to their banks‚ the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) has warned. Read more >>
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 | The South African Quality Authority (SAQA) has announced the registration of the Tax Professional as an occupational qualification, after a five-year gestation which incorporated lengthy deliberations between the South African Revenue Service, industry and academia. Read more >>
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 | Fourteen years ago the collective investments industry had only R117-billion assets under management, with R44-billion in equity funds, R6-billion in asset mix funds and R33-billion in money market funds. Read more >>
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 | Gugu Lourie It seems Telkom's Chief Executive Sipho Maseko has let slip its turnaround strategy but the big question is whether it can work. Read more >>
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 | The Eskom Pension and Provident Fund has committed R100-million to the development of around 20,000 new affordable homes through an investment in global private equity funder, International Housing Solutions (IHS). Read more >>
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 | Domino's Pizza, described as the world's largest pizza chain, has signed a 30-year master licence agreement with Taste Holdings, which will enable it to develop the brand in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Zambia and Malawi will follow, on the fulfilment of certain conditions. Read more >>
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 | The Gauteng Gambling Board's pending decision on whether Sun International can relocate its Morula Casino from Mabopane, north of Pretoria, to Menlyn, in Pretoria, East, is likely to be contested in court. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Telkom has instructed its lawyers to write a letter to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) demanding clarity on its decision that the group's Chief Executive‚ Sipho Maseko‚ attend a corporate governance and director's duties course. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley ALT X-listed Beige Holdings reported a larger interim loss for its six months to December‚ amid an "extremely challenging" period for the contract manufacturer of home and personal care products. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Telkom aims to cut R1bn in costs every year for the next five years as it restructures its business to revive its fortunes and unlock shareholder value‚ chief executive Sipho Maseko said. Read more >>
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 | Phakamisa Ndzamela Investment company Brimstone is taking a majority stake in a black economic empowerment (BEE) consortium that will acquire between 8% and 8.5% in ship‚ rail and port operator Grindrod. Read more >>
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 | Evan Pickworth South African executives remain a pretty gloomy bunch‚ with Grant Thornton's latest report on business leadership trends showing that general humour and modesty are considered by senior management to be the least important to good leadership. Read more >>
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 | Public audit performs a crucial role in both preventing ongoing waste of taxpayers' money and boosting society's trust and confidence about how governments spend public money. This is according to a recent report by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Read more >>
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 | The public protector's office has met the National Consumer Commission to discuss motorists' complaints about Sanral's e-tolls billing system. Read more >>
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 | Lize de la Harpe The question often arises why a spouse can't claim from an annuity in the case of a divorce. The answer lies in the applicable legislation, specifically the Pension Fund Act and the Divorce Act. The aim of Section 37A of the Pension Funds Act is to protect a member's pension benefits from his/her creditors, and it expressly limits a fund's ability to deduct amounts from a member's pension benefit. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: US computer giant Hewlett-Packard agreed to pay US$108m to settle investigations that it paid bribes to win public contracts in Russia, Poland and Mexico, officials said on Wednesday (9 April). Read more >>
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 | Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant says despite the fact that South Africa has come a long way in the past 20 years of democracy, more needs to be done to change attitudes to end discrimination in the workplace. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Google has bought Titan Aerospace, a manufacturer of solar-powered drones that could be used to boost Internet access to remote areas. Read more >>
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 | OTTAWA, CANADA: Canada's tax agency shut its website on Wednesday (9 April) after warning that encrypted taxpayer data could be vulnerable to the "Heartbleed" bug. Read more >>
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 | While the North West province struggles to provide services for its residents, provincial premier, Thandi Modise has confirmed that the provincial government has increased funding by almost threefold for traditional leaders from R9.9m to R27m for the 2014/15 financial year. Read more >>
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 | Human Settlements Minister Connie September has urged communities to report illegal activities in the development of housing. Read more >>
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 | South Africa's workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, said a report published this week. Read more >>
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 | Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant reassured critics of the controversial draft regulations on employment equity that proposed guidelines for quotas would not prejudice coloureds and Indians. Read more >>
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 | South Africa's employed people are most likely to stay in their jobs, according to a report released by Statistics South Africa on Wednesday (9 April). Read more >>
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