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 | Nedbank Lakeview in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, is the fourth occupied Nedbank building to achieve the 4-Star Green Star Rating from the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA). read more>> |
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 | Medical aid cover could become far more expensive, Wits Professor and Health Economist Alex van den Heever warned at the Board of Healthcare Funders' conference in Durban. read more>> |
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 | Rikus Visser, Issued by Meredith Harington By now most of us have received an email that requires one to click on a link to update your banking details. Hopefully we are all aware that these are scams and that no South African bank will ask you to update any banking details via an email... read more>> |
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 | SAICA has partnered with the international AAT body to develop AAT(SA), a new locally-based professional body aimed an vastly improving the standards of accounting where the rubber hits the road. read more>> |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Radio has long been the battlefield for banking. Over the past couple of years the banking sector, because of some guy called Steve, became even more competitive. read more>> |
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 | The University of Cape Town has entered a R252-million partnership with the MasterCard Foundation to help counteract the effects of 'brain drain' by developing 300 committed next-generation leaders from economically disadvantaged communities across sub-Saharan Africa. read more>> |
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 | Nick Hedley JSE-listed clothing and food retailer Woolworths will raise about R10bn to repay the part of the money it borrowed to pay for its R21.6bn takeover of David Jones, the Australian retail chain. read more>> |
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 | Activity in the manufacturing sector improved last month as workers that had gone on a month-long strike returned to work‚ boosting the purchasing managers' index (PMI) read more>> |
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 | Alistair Anderson The cost of renovating the Mall of Rosebank contributed to Hyprop Investment's profit falling in the year to June, but the real estate investment trust (Reit) nevertheless raised its distribution 11.3% to R4.72. read more>> |
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 | New vehicle sales in August dropped 1.40% year-on-year to 55‚722‚ according to automotive data released this week. read more>> |
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 | Morvest, a JSE-listed support services provider reported revenue growth of 15% to R1.1bn for the year to May. read more>> |
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Net1 UEPS Technologies reported a rise in earnings for the year to June‚ boosted by a $26.6m recovery for the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) contract it lost in a court dispute. read more>> |
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 | The business rescue practitioners for Ellerines have not yet decided whether or not to retrench employees. read more>> |
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 | RCL Foods has fallen to a headline loss of 47.7c a share from profits of 4.8c a share last year mainly because of a surge in finance costs. read more>> |
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 | Drug maker Adcock Ingram reported a headline loss per share of 179.5c for the nine months to June from headline earnings of 271.7c in the prior period. read more>> |
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 | Joan Muller It seems perennial under-performer South Africa Corporate Real Estate Fund has finally turned the corner after completing internalisation of its management company. read more>> |
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 | Fifi Peters and Sikonathi Mantshantsha The expected handover of more than a million title deeds to owners of subsidised houses during the next five years could speed up the opening of the formal property market in areas like Soweto. read more>> |
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 | Samuel Mungadze MTN has defended its retrenchment plans‚ which has been criticised by the trade union Solidarity and says the process was partly to review the cost structure of operations in South Africa‚ and allow the company to deliver on strategic investments and product innovation. read more>> |
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 | Private education group Advtech said the turnaround in its tertiary education division had been successful and a sound pattern of enrolment growth was evident throughout its businesses. read more>> |
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 | Nick Hedley Distell Group has set aside more than R500m for investments in various African countries and it will fund the investment through a cost saving and supply chain efficiency programmes‚ the liquor group claims. read more>> |
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 | Philani Nombembe Engineers have urged Gauteng motorists to pay e-tolls or face the danger of road infrastructure going the way of Eskom - deteriorating to the point that billions of rands are needed to rebuild it. read more>> |
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 | KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: Malaysia Airlines will slash thousands of staff, trim routes, replace its chief executive and consider strategic stake sales to outside investors as part of plans to save it from bankruptcy after two devastating disasters. read more>> |
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Hackers believed to be from Russia broke into the computer systems of JPMorgan Chase and a second US bank earlier this month, sparking a federal investigation, US media has reported. read more>> |
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 | The pilot programme of the MasterCard-branded National eID card was launched on 28 August in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. read more>> |
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 | Government is determined to protect South Africa's clothing and textile sector, which has shown growth in recent years, says the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). read more>> |
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 | The Auditor-General's (AG) office will commence its investigation into allegations of corruption and maladministration at the Westonaria Local Municipality. read more>> |
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 | Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says government is working hard to build an economy that is able to generate jobs, while improving export competitiveness. read more>> |
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 | South Africa's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.6% in the second quarter of this year according to figures released by Statistics South Africa. read more>> |
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