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Business

BEE lobby eyes bigger share of state spend

Business BEE Picture: THINKSTOCK
2 hour(s) ago

Push for higher weighting in parastatal procurement rules

Transport & Tourism

Losing consortium gives up bid to stop R51bn Prasa rolling stock fleet tender

A PLAN WITH PROPERTY: Prasa CEO Lucky Montana spells out the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s plan to buy back development leases and realise market-related rentals on these properties. Picture: PUXLEY MAKGATHO
3 hour(s) ago

Dudula says it decided to use resources elsewhere than fight long legal battle

Media & Advertising

Seardel, HCI retract transaction notice

3 hour(s) ago

Hosken Consolidated Investments and Seardel cancelled deal that was to create new media platform

African News

AU summit to be held behind closed doors

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
1 hour(s) ago

AU Commission’s Dlamini-Zuma confirms civil society organisations, partners and delegations will, for the first time, be denied access to the AU conference centre

Energy

Eskom was ‘on the brink of a power shutdown’

Picture: THINKSTOCK
1 hour(s) ago

Eskom ‘came as close to the edge as you can get’ last Monday evening when the available power supply exceeded demand, according to the company

Telecoms & Technology

Takeover of Altech ‘was Altron’s plan’

Altron CEO Robert Venter. Picture: MARTIN RHODES
1 hour(s) ago

CEO says shareholders will back offer to buy remaining shares

Business

Trumping clause ‘brings BEE certainty’

1 hour(s) ago

Introduction of a trumping clause wins support of MPs, despite the Department of Trade and Industry’s initial opposition to the measure

National

Guptagate report: manipulation, collusion and illegal blue lights

Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe addresses reporters on the Guptagate report in Pretoria on Sunday. Picture: GCIS
19 hour(s) ago

Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe announces findings of government report into landing of Gupta jet at air force base

HIGHER LEARNING: Students stroll past the University of the Witwatersrand's Great Hall. Picture: THE TIMES

Managing global conflicts and democratic space at Wits

There is a global conflict playing out in the corridors of the University of the Witwatersrand, write Adam Habib and Loyiso Nongxa

Columnists

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Africans need visas to visit more than two-thirds of countries on their own continent, writes Dianna Games

Nkrumah’s dream of African unity unfulfilled

Columnists

Adekeye Adebajo writes about his experiences at the recent annual three-day World Economic Forum on Africa

Africans march upward to economic purgatory

Labour

Coal, gold miners face big pay rise demands

Picture: VATHISWA RUSELO
1 hour(s) ago

Union to seek pay rises of up to 60% from gold and coal producers, raising prospect of fresh strikes as companies battle higher costs and falling prices in an already heated labour climate

Europe

Aide’s gaffe places Cameron in tight spot

British Prime Minister David Cameron. Picture: REUTERS
3 hour(s) ago

Furore threatens to further alienate British prime minister and his inner circle from the core of his party, with whom ties are already almost at breaking point

Economy

ECONOMIC WEEK AHEAD: Reserve Bank likely to dash rate cut hopes

The Reserve Bank in Pretoria. Picture: FINANCIAL MAIL
15 minute(s) ago

Nobody expects Bank to trim key repo rate this week, but local money markets are pricing in 60% chance that interest rates will fall by the end of this year

National

Sanral ‘refuses’ to disclose Winelands toll costs, says City of Cape Town

E-tolls tolling Sanral Gauteng. Picture: FINANCIAL MAIL
20 hour(s) ago

Democratic Alliance-led City of Cape Town proves to be latest stumbling block for roads agency’s bid to toll particular roads

Media

SABC presenter Mbuli hailed as patriot and ‘zealous newshound’

Vuyo Mbuli. Picture: SOWETAN
22 hour(s) ago

Politicians and broadcasting community shocked by death of SABC television and radio presenter Vuyo Mbuli

Picture: THE TIMES

Danger of scoring political points in toilet wars

Ahead of next year’s election, the emotive issue of access to sanitation has arisen again, write Karen Heese and Kevin Allan

Business

Gym chains move up, down and into Africa

Planet Fitness, Lonehill. Picture: MICHAEL PINYANA
21 hour(s) ago

The gym business is largely recession-proof in South Africa — and now the country’s two big chains are taking aim at lower-income groups

Telecoms & Technology

Bungling at Icasa in the spotlight

Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube. Picture: MARTIN RHODES
23 hour(s) ago

Fresh questions about bungling at telecoms regulator Icasa as Vodacom gears up to fight regulator’s claim of R77.8m for alleged licensing fee arrears

Transport & Tourism

Why Fastjet failed to take flight

Low-cost airline fastjet is based in Britain and listed in London.
23 hour(s) ago

Glitch with Fastjet’s website scuppers local launch date of the low-cost carrier

Trade & Industry

Clucking in chicken coop as row over import duties hots up

Photo: REUTERS
23 hour(s) ago

Feathers fly as spat over import duties on chickens imported into SA heads to court

Politics

POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Gupta scandal to be aired in Parliament

STORMY NUPTIALS: Vega Gupta and Aakash Jahajgarhia at their wedding  ceremony at Sun City on Saturday.  Picture: THE HERALD
12 minute(s) ago

Fallout over Gupta family landing private aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force Base will dominate the political week

Labour

Platinum jitters as turf war flares in Marikana

Picture: THINKSTOCK
23 hour(s) ago

Platinum companies remain on edge, with tensions raised by Anglo American Platinum’s plan to retrench 6,000 workers to remain profitable

Retail & Consumer

Nando’s hots up as competition bites

Nando's CEO Geoff Whyte. Picture: JEREMY GLYNN
23 hour(s) ago

Slowly but surely, the peri-peri chicken chain is pecking its way to international success

Middle East

Syrian army, Hezbollah attack rebels in border town, says opposition

HEAVY TOLL: Damaged buildings in the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday. Picture: REUTERS
15 hour(s) ago

Syrian troops supported by Hezbollah militants launch offensive to retake town near Lebanon from rebels, say opposition activists

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May 20 2013

Arts & Entertainment

CRUCIAL CD COLLECTION: Doug Jerebine

3 hour(s) ago

The story of Doug Jerebine ought to satisfy even the most demanding rock cultist, writes Richard Haslop

Management

How to get the leadership that we desire

Magna Carta CEO Vincent Magwenya. Picture: ARNOLD PRONTO
3 hour(s) ago

New Magna Carta CEO Vincent Magwenya believes the honing of leaders begins long before school age, writes Lesley Stones

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The Third Umpire

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies, for promising a redrafting of the Licensing of Businesses Bill after a uniformly negative response to the first draft — but doing away with it altogether would be better still.

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