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  Free State municipalities most likely to make providers wait for payment

  A Statistics SA report released on Wednesday has identified Free State municipalities as the worst payers to suppliers and creditors, with North West in second spot

  Politics

  • NFP takes election disqualification to court
  • Matthews’ resignation letter ‘proof of SABC clampdown’

  Media

  • HSF tells SABC to end ‘unconstitutional’ policy or it will sue the broadcaster
  • SABC chairman downplays spate of resignations and suspension

  Labour

  • Nehawu gives Parliament Tuesday deadline to end suspension of members
  • Nedlac partners ask experts to report on proposed minimum wage

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  • Two rangers nabbed after poached rhino carcass found in Kruger Park
  • Des van Rooyen decries poor state of water infrastructure

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  • NEWS ANALYSIS: Judges’ rejection was emphatic but Zuma still has options
  • Concerns raised about state law adviser

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  • World business schools prepare for inaugural African MBA Indaba
  • Port Elizabeth university conducts own probe into campus student violence

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  • NHI faces R200bn shortfall, Econex finds

  Opinion

  • EDITORIAL: Protector selection too important to be left to MPs
  • Costing vital for national health scheme

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  • Gatvol factor to the fore from Tshwane to the UK
  • GARETH VAN ONSELEN: The South African medical dictionary of politics
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  Telecoms giant rises out of Neotel sale

  Econet deal set to create Africa’s largest broadband network

  African News

  • Morgan Tsvangirai says he is undergoing treatment for colon cancer in SA
  • Dollar shortage highlights Zimbabwe’s woes
  • Zimbabwe’s Hwange coal mine to cut 1,500 jobs, minister says
  • Cyril Ramaphosa urges officials in Lesotho to implement security reform
  • Africa’s richest man got a fistful of dollars in Nigerian currency squeeze

  African Business

  • MTN pays first instalment of Nigerian fine
  • New find of helium means MRI scanners — and party balloons — not in danger
  • Dollar shortage highlights Zimbabwe’s woes
  • Investors wary of African deals amid currency mayhem
  • Energy investors’ big plans for Africa
  • Danone and Clover face off on the shelves

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  • Africa likely to feel full weight of Brexit fallout
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  • The empty-chair syndrome in African leadership

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  Alcoa spins off smelting business, creates Arconic Inc

  The metals giant says it will spin off its traditional aluminium smelting business and the ‘value-added’ business for engineered products will be named Arconic Inc

  Africa

  • Telecoms giant rises out of Neotel sale
  • Omnia ungeared in spite of difficult year

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  • Scottish leader’s plea to stay in Europe rebuffed in Brussels
  • ‘For heaven’s sake man, go,’ Cameron tells Corbyn

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  • Japan’s Abe pledges broad policy support to weather Brexit shock
  • US, Japan and South Korea jointly test missile defence against North Korea

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  • Israel and Turkey restore ties in deal spurred by energy prospects
  • Lebanon suicide bombings tied to Syrian conflict

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  • Alcoa spins off smelting business, creates Arconic Inc
  • GE’s finance unit sheds its ‘too big to fail’ designation

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  • EDITORIAL: SA must learn art of diplomacy
  • The end of banking as we now know it

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  • ON WORK: The sham democracy of CEOs tweeting lame stuff on Twitter
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  Britain should not waste the Brexit crisis

  Uncertainty surrounds what trade and other deals Britain will strike with the EU, individual EU members and the rest of the world, writes Leon Louw

  Editorials

  • EDITORIAL: SABC must be saved from itself
  • EDITORIAL: Protector selection too important to be left to MPs

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  • Britain should not waste the Brexit crisis
  • GARETH VAN ONSELEN: Ten stages on the path to demagogic power

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  MARKET WRAP: JSE and rand firm in global risk-on environment as Brexit concerns ease

  Higher commodity prices added to resource sector gains, and there was also positive sentiment towards property stocks, banks and financials

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  • MARKET WRAP: JSE and rand firm in global risk-on environment as Brexit concerns ease
  • Rand jumps through R15/$ as Brexit worries ease
  • Stocks and oil prices gain as Brexit nerves settle

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  Barclays Africa to invest in skills development

  Ramos also urges the private sector, the government and civil society to work together to address ‘massive divisions in wealth and income’ across the continent

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  • Define what you want, find how you get there, and do it
  • Total liquidations down slightly in May 2016, year on year

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  Opinion

  • Jobs crisis marked by false solutions and indifference
  • SA needs to build strong industrial base

  Columnists

  • ANTHONY BUTLER: Reality of Brexit could knock us sideways
  • MARK BARNES: Count cost of being in a bloc

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  Lucara Diamond too rich for Sotheby’s bidders

  The Lesedi La Rona — ‘one of the greatest stones ever discovered’ — goes home after bids fall below the reserve price

  Trade & Industry

  • Brexit seen as ‘calamitous’ for African trade with Europe
  • SA’s trade and business interests will be first victims of Brexit
  • EDITORIAL: Investment is a beauty parade

  Management

  • Using muti to intimidate colleagues is a dismissible offence
  • Experience a major factor in startup success, survey finds
  • Business must be honest about gains from past

  Innovation

  • Drought helps to show more dams must be built
  • SA’s advertising sector needs a kaleidoscopic view
  • Are wearable devices at work magic or a menace?

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  MTN pays first instalment of Nigerian fine

  Company says it has also paid N18.96bn for a 10-year licence won at auction that will enable it to provide superfast wireless networks

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  • Standard Bank fined $800 by Angola’s central bank over forex violations
  • Sephaku revenue up on cement and concrete gains
  • Argent Industrial doubles profit, in spite of decline in revenue
  • Fuel group Montauk back in black as gas revenue more than doubles
  • Eastplats to sell mines to Chinese buyer

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  If your job is your number one life stressor, it is time you develop resilience

  Exercising mindfulness is one suggestion, as more and more people in the business world turn their attention to mental training techniques associated with this practice

  Arts & Entertainment

  • FILM REVIEW: Kalushi and Wonder Boy for President
  • Cape Town studio scoops top prize at this year’s Annecy festival

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  • LIQUID INVESTMENTS: Vineyard virus denialism compromises proactive estates’ efforts

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  • Why moving house is not a good idea when you’re fighting cancer
  • If your job is your number one life stressor, it is time you develop resilience

  Motoring

  • Driverless cars able to make decisions raise ethical questions
  • LAUNCH NEWS: Mercedes E-Class — connecting to a changing world
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  Safa did not pay a bribe to secure 2010 — Danny Jordaan

  ANC mayoral candidate says hard work and Nelson Mandela not a $10m bribe helped SA clinch the rights to host the World Cup in 2010

  Rugby

  • Kriel eager to slot in as Bok fetcher
  • Injury-hit Bulls aim to up their intensity

  soccer

  • Safa did not pay a bribe to secure 2010 — Danny Jordaan
  • England coach Roy Hodgson quits after shock defeat to Iceland

  Cricket

  • Good stats not enough for Proteas
  • SA’s Caribbean cruise ends ingloriously
  • Langers has the history to prep Proteas
  • Proteas need to win against Windies for a place in final

  Other Sport

  • Djokovic whips Ward in flawless performance
  • Woods may be out of action for rest of year
  • Champion rider Khumalo chopped by Snaith stable
  • No stopping sizzling Semenya
  • I can get even better, says No1 Djokovic