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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
10 hour(s) ago

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

Telecoms & Technology

Bungling at Icasa in the spotlight

Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube. Picture: MARTIN RHODES
15 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

Media

SABC presenter Mbuli hailed as patriot and ‘zealous newshound’

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

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

Transport & Tourism

Why Fastjet failed to take flight

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

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

Labour

Platinum jitters as turf war flares in Marikana

Picture: THINKSTOCK
15 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

Business

Gym chains move up, down and into Africa

Planet Fitness, Lonehill. Picture: MICHAEL PINYANA
13 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

Economy

Rates expected to remain unchanged despite speculation of a cut

Kristin Lindow, senior vice-president of the sovereign risk group at rating agency Moody’s. Picture: ROBERT TSHABALALA
1 day(s) ago

Apart from price stability, the Reserve Bank should keep an eye on employment and growth numbers

National

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

E-tolls tolling Sanral Gauteng. Picture: FINANCIAL MAIL
11 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

Former Fidentia boss  J Arthur Brown during sentencing at the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON

The Fidentia fight is far from over

Where was the co-operation between the Financial Services Board and the National Prosecuting Authority?

Columnists

Matthew Lester promo

The only way to force everyone to do their bit to reduce carbon emissions is to put a price on it, writes Matthew Lester

Carbon tax must be explained to laymen

Columnists

Jeremy Thomas promo

Jeremy Thomas shares sobering news on what soon-to-be pensioners can expect to be paid in their declining years

Pension? No, rather stick to beer

Telecoms & Technology

Altron CEO says takeover by Altech makes sense

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

Altech, Altron bosses say consolidation would be good for investors and find favour among shareholders

African Business

Sleepy island of Mauritius waking up fast

Picture: SUNDAY TIMES
12 hour(s) ago

Mauritius has rejigged its fiscal policies and become a bona fide challenger to base multinational business in Africa

Trade & Industry

Clucking in chicken coop as row over import duties hots up

Photo: REUTERS
15 hour(s) ago

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

Mining

Venkat steps into a cauldron at AngloGold

AngloGold Ashanti CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan. Picture: MARTIN RHODES
10 hour(s) ago

Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan steps into the big shoes of mining veteran Mark Cutifani at a trying time in the history of SA’s biggest gold miner

Markets

There just may be glitter in gold shares

Picture: REUTERS
10 hour(s) ago

Gutsy investors with an appetite for the yellow metal may want to consider benefiting from bargain prices in listed gold company shares

Retail & Consumer

Nando’s hots up as competition bites

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

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

A Ngare Serian tented camp in Maasai Mara, Kenya. Kenya.   Picture: THINKSTOCK.

Africa: a new haven for the hospitality industry

The hospitality industry globally is looking at Africa because much of the rest of the world’s economy has gone to hell in a handbasket, writes Arthur Gillis

Europe

Croatia trains bees to find land mines

Picture: THINKSTOCK
7 hour(s) ago

Hundreds of square kilometres in Croatia are still suspected to be filled with mines from the Balkan wars in the 1990

Companies

Curro’s investor offer sparks price jitters

Piet Mouton, CEO of PSG. Picture: FINANCIAL MAIL
15 hour(s) ago

Shares in private school operator Curro seesawed this week — but one man unfazed by the volatility of the stock is Piet Mouton, CEO of the PSG Group

Energy

City Power warns Joburg to brace for load shedding

electricity pylons. Picture: THINKSTOCK.
3 day(s) ago

Eskom has denied load shedding is definitely on the cards but City Power’s Paul Vermeulen says city will be hit by reduced capacity as delayed maintenance is carried out

African News

Lesotho denies women right to be chiefs

2 day(s) ago

Mountain kingdom’s Constitutional Court upholds section of Chieftainship Act that denies daughters the right to succeed to chieftainship

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
7 hour(s) ago

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

National

Mandela’s daughters, lawyer ‘in cahoots to secure companies’ cash’, claims Chuene

Lawyer Bally Chuene has been appointed chairman of Gauteng's Gambling Board.  Picture: SUNDAY TIMES
2 day(s) ago

Lawyer of two of Mandela’s daughters the ‘guiding hand’ behind a bid for control of companies owned by the Mandela Trust, claims Mandela’s lawyer Bally Chuene

National

Karabus lands in Cape Town after UAE ordeal

HOME AT LAST: Prof Cyril Karabus arrives at Cape Town International Airport on Friday. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
2 day(s) ago

South African doctor Cyril Karabus is welcomed back to SA by bands, banners and dignitaries at Cape Town International Airport

Business

More than 15,000 tax practitioners need to find new professional home

Picture: DAILY DISPATCH
2 day(s) ago

South African Revenue Service says more than half the 38,000 practitioners registered with SARS already belong to five controlling bodies recently granted recognition

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Cartoons

May 17 2013

Health

Psychiatry’s latest ‘bible’ a work in progress

MISLABELLED: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has been criticised for  turning normal human behaviour and feelings into mental illnesses. Picture: THINKSTOCK
2 day(s) ago

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual’s fifth edition is called the DSM-5, not the DSM-V, to allow for constant revision — but the open-ended approach has not satisfied all critics

Travel & Food

100 years of the Cape in full bloom

2 day(s) ago

The Chelsea Flower Show of London and Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden of Cape Town are celebrating their 100th anniversaries this year, writes Penny Haw

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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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