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We can already write the NDP off

National Development Plan is lacking constant affirmation by President Jacob Zuma, writes Peter Bruce

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  Strike fears as NUM demands 60% increases

  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

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  • Saxonwold ANC ‘to act against Atul Gupta’

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  • Dawes leaving Mail & Guardian for Indian paper

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  • Equal Education decries delays in norms and standards for schools
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  Dlamini-Zuma confirms AU ban on NGOs at summit

  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

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  • AU opts to bar groups from summit
  • Lesotho denies women right to be chiefs
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  Aide’s gaffe places Cameron in tight spot

  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

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  • Dlamini-Zuma confirms AU ban on NGOs at summit
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  EDITORIAL: CEOs swell the ranks of the jobless

  Tough corporate conditions are doing what militant unionists in South Africa wish they could — pushing well-paid business leaders out the door

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  Union’s mining wage demands send rand to four-year low

  High wage demands by National Union of Mineworkers for workers in coal and gold mines drive rand down at prospect of more industry turmoil

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

  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

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  • Rates expected to remain unchanged despite speculation of a cut
  • Local manufacturing sector ‘in dire straits’
  • Tax act could be subject to litigation, says Davis
  • Slump in SA retail sales growth fans fears on household spending
  • Courts reel in SARS ‘fishing expeditions’ against taxpayers

  Economic Indicators

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  R12.47

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  5%

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  8.5%

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  2.1%

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  CPI (Mar)

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  Opinion

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  Union’s mining wage demands send rand to four-year low

  High wage demands by National Union of Mineworkers for workers in coal and gold mines drive rand down at prospect of more industry turmoil

  Trade & Industry

  • Meat group cries foul over poultry body’s secret figures
  • Clucking in chicken coop as import row hots up
  • SA’s business ties with other countries key to growth, says Radebe

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  Abil stock plunges again on results

  African Bank Investments plumbs fresh eight-year low as earnings fall and dividend is slashed, adding to sharp drop earlier this month on profit warning

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  FAME & FORTUNE: Closing the lid on 'rubbish'

  Tarryn Lamb, a member of BlackByrd, speaks to Loni Prinsloo about her career in music

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  How to get the leadership that we desire

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

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  Baxter happy he proved his critics wrong

  Chiefs mentor Stuart Baxter says it was a risk returning to SA, but he was sure he could rise to the challenge for a club with clear goals and hungry players

  Rugby

  • Labuschagne a ‘very influential player’
  • O’Connor to play as flyhalf in Wallabies Test squad

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