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Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube. Picture: MARTIN RHODES

Bungling at Icasa in the spotlight

5 day(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

National

The Fidentia fight is far from over

Former Fidentia boss  J Arthur Brown during sentencing at the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
5 day(s) ago

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

Transport & Tourism

Why Fastjet failed to take flight

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

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

National

Now for J Arthur Brown’s ‘true Fidentia story’

Former Fidentia boss  J Arthur Brown during sentencing at the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
5 day(s) ago

Brown plans to tell ‘true Fidentia story’, claiming curators were less than truthful in their accounts of his disgraced company’s affairs

Mining

Venkat stepping into a cauldron at AngloGold

AngloGold Ashanti CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan. Picture: MARTIN RHODES
4 day(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

Business Times

Rupert takes a ‘grey gap year’

Richemont executive chairman and CEO Johann Rupert. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES
5 day(s) ago

Richemont founder Johann Rupert has been angling for freedom for some time

Companies

Curro's investor offer sparks price jitters

Piet Mouton, CEO of PSG. Picture: FINANCIAL MAIL
5 day(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, the single largest investor in Curro

Retail & Consumer

Fast Food: Nando's hots up as competition bites

Nando's CEO Geoff Whyte. Picture: JEREMY GLYNN
5 day(s) ago

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

Trade & Industry

Clucking in chicken coop as import row hots up

Photo: REUTERS
5 day(s) ago

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

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
5 day(s) ago

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

Economy

Manufacturers in South Africa stay confident

Manufacturing Circle executive director Coenraad Bezuidenhout. Picture: RUSSELL ROBERTS
5 day(s) ago

Manufacturing Bulletin for first quarter shows that business confidence in manufacturing is mostly stable

Companies

Tax breaks for the angels

5 day(s) ago

Venture capital companies can now trade as trusts and give tax breaks to those who are prepared to throw some money behind small business

African Business

Sleepy island of Mauritius waking up fast

Picture: SUNDAY TIMES
5 day(s) ago

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

Markets

There just may be glitter in gold shares

Picture: REUTERS
5 day(s) ago

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

Business

Gym chains move up, down and into Africa

Planet Fitness, Lonehill. Picture: MICHAEL PINYANA
5 day(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

Business Times

SA stocks falter after streaking to new highs

5 day(s) ago

South African stocks ended slightly lower on Friday, snapping a four-day winning streak that took the market to new peaks

National

A R150,000 ‘slap’ and Brown is free

5 day(s) ago

After millions of rand being lost and six years of talking, in and out of court, J Arthur Brown is a free man

Business Times

Your replacement ratio can be a pension pitfall

Picture: THINKSTOCK
6 day(s) ago

What most people do not know is how the figure for ‘pensionable salary’ is actually defined

Opinion

THE LAST WORD: Stellenbosch guru can take Reinet gap

One thing Johann Rupert can do now is think up new ideas for Reinet, the company he started five years ago

Opinion

White spaces can slash internet access costs

There are challenges that have to be overcome before the technology is adopted on a large scale

Opinion

Put your town on the map in two clicks

Cartography is undergoing a second golden age thanks to the web, writes Brian McClendon

Opinion

Thank you for making South Africa work

This week’s column is a tribute to all the hard-working men and women who do their best in the most trying circumstances

Opinion

Investor confidence and the Guptas

Local and foreign direct investment needs to be elevated to a burning national strategic priority

Opinion

BULL’S EYE: Pension? No, stick to beer

Sobering news from Alexander Forbes, which compiles a quarterly index of what soon-to-be pensioners can expect to be paid in their declining years

Opinion

Empowerment: opening doors to black business

Picture: THINKSTOCK

How companies can contribute to the development of emerging enterprises

Opinion

THIS IS THE BUSINESS: Education — not BEE — will drive our success

In our race-obsessed society, progress is measured by efforts to fulfill strict racial quotas reflective of the demographics of the nation

Telecoms & Technology

Cell firms spend big on data capacity

Picture: THINKSTOCK
5 day(s) ago

Mobile companies Vodacom, MTN and 8ta have ploughed more than R50bn into upgrading their networks, as consumers use more data than ever

Business Times

CORRUPTION WATCH: Using money to secure privileges is corruption

Billionaire Atul Gupta is close to the president.  Picture: SUNDAY TIMES
5 day(s) ago

Why is everyone in such an uproar about the Guptas? Why does it matter that they landed a private jet at the Waterkloof base?

Business Times

From pension to hedge fund

Picture: Investors Monthly
5 day(s) ago

Hedge funds usually do not deliver mega-returns, as some aggressive equity funds do, but they can provide good insulation from falling markets

Business Times

Squeeze continues on emerging-market returns

5 day(s) ago

A broad collapse of company profits in the developing world shows no sign of abating, forcing investors to tilt portfolios towards sectors such as healthcare or consumer goods

NATURALLY SWEET: Bokang Mphahele is a supervising barista at a coffee bar.      Picture: SIMPHIWE NKWALI

MY BRILLIANT CAREER: Ground, roasted and poured just right

Bokang Mphahele, a barista, tells Margaret Harris that calling customers by their names rather than an order number makes them feel valued

Personal Finance

Closing the lid on ‘rubbish’

FINANCIAL SECURITY: Tarryn Lamb,  middle, with her fellow BlackByrd band members Samantha Heldsinger, left,  and Tamsyn Maker
5 day(s) ago

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

Business Times

HOW TO: Interview for the job you want

5 day(s) ago

Looking for a job can be a tricky business — although much of the process is really out of your hands

Business Times

LOOSE TALK: Calm before the storm?

5 day(s) ago

Could it be that Shabangu and her department understand the reasons for the retrenchments and agree with Amplats, or are they still formulating their next attack on the dirty capitalists?

Opinion

SIGNPOST: Beware of the mobile zombies

Never write off a technology brand until its death has been confirmed by the coroners of corporate accounting

Opinion

TAX TALK: Carbon tax must be explained to laymen

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

Business Times

Limits to what QE can achieve

5 day(s) ago

Financial markets fired up this year by monetary stimuli of the top four central banks ask how long this can last

Business Times

Vatican Bank moves to embrace transparency

5 day(s) ago

The Vatican Bank, dubbed as the most secretive bank, intends to launch a website and publish its annual reports improving transparency by year-end

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Top 40 36347.090.10% up
Financial 15 11704.570.14% up
Industrial 25 46551.140.40% up
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FTSE 100 6660.16-0.55% down
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Gold 1388.9505-0.19% down
Platinum 1454.5000-0.10% down
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  • All Share : 40913.11
    Change: 0.14%
    Top 40 : 36348.87
    Change: 0.10%
    Financial 15 : 11704.57
    Change: 0.14%
    Industrial 25 : 46551.14
    Change: 0.40%
    Resource 10 : 45871.90
    Change: -0.37%
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    Change: -0.54%
    Dow Jones : 15294.50
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    ASX : 4964.30
    Change: -1.52%
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  • ZAR/USD : 9.5692
    Change: 0.54%
    ZAR/GBP : 14.4321
    Change: 0.40%
    ZAR/EUR : 12.3650
    Change: 0.33%
    ZAR/JPY : 0.0943
    Change: 0.94%
    ZAR/AUD : 9.2729
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  • Gold : 1390.2300
    Change: -0.09%
    Platinum : 1456.0000
    Change: 0.00%
    Silver : 22.3970
    Change: -0.78%
    Palladium : 729.5000
    Change: -0.48%
    Brent Crude Oil : 102.220
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