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Gordhan got so many things right

Mark Barnes is encouraged by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s promise to spend wisely

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  Petrol price to rise by 81c a litre to record high

  Weakening rand contributes to 7% hike in petrol price from Wednesday next week, with diesel, paraffin also rising as international fuel prices increase

  Politics

  • NEWS ANALYSIS: Vavi will suffer for not backing Zuma
  • Vavi says will quit ‘if graft claim is proved’

  Media

  • Commerce ‘undermines freedom of SA media’
  • Start-up media ‘being overlooked by advertisers’

  Labour

  • Government urges farmers to comply as new minimum wages come into force
  • Unions in dispute over strike at Medupi

  Science & environment

  • SA not ruling out rhino horn trade in bid to save species
  • SA to keep open mind on rhino horn trade, says Molewa

  Law & constitution

  • JSC may silence critics as women make short list
  • Gun Free South Africa calls for ban on imitation firearms

  Education

  • Commitment to value for money
  • Education fund to bar higher-earning families

  Health

  • NHI affordability depends on rate of future growth
  • Health to get extra to spend on TB diagnosis and HIV

  Opinion

  • All eyes on budget for news on SA’s carbon tax
  • Political parties ignore SA’s young voters at their peril

  Columnists

  • Pitfalls and challenges lie ahead for Ramphele
  • Brics bank may bankroll SA’s nuclear ambitions
• World

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  Kenya nears elections with calls to avoid repeat of violence

  Three weeks of campaigning ahead of Kenya’s March 4 presidential and elections draw to an end on Saturday, reports Nicholas Kotch from Nairobi

  Africa

  • Kenya nears elections with calls to avoid repeat of violence
  • Zimplats given 30 days to appeal land grab

  Europe

  • EU bankers face bonus restrictions
  • Lloyds posts full-year loss, says impairments will start falling

  Asia-Pacific

  • Chinese factory growth cools as domestic demand slows
  • Fukushima raises cancer risk

  Middle East

  • Syria ‘needs help’ — US
  • Israel accused of preventing a two-state solution

  Americas

  • Washington frets as markets take spending cuts in stride
  • Syrian rebels to receive nonlethal aid from US

  Opinion

  • THE FINANCIAL TIMES: Lessons from Bulgaria
  • UN spearheads rise in peacekeeping activities

  Columnists

  • Too soon to panic after sell-off — wait for Bernanke
  • LETTER FROM AMERICA: US trade policy can’t fix waning demand
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  EDITORIAL: Turning on Vavi could prove fatal

  While Zwelinzima Vavi is being subjected to trial by innuendo, he will be sidelined within Cosatu and be made persona non grata in the alliance until he has either been neutralised as a political threat or resigns his position

  Editorials

  • EDITORIAL: Turning on Vavi could prove fatal
  • EDITORIAL: A cautionary plastic-bag tale

  Columnists

  • Gordhan’s budget and SA’s leadership challenge
  • Seniority in the ANC will get you only so far

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  • Ten questions about where quantitative easing will lead

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  • LETTER: BEE does not generate income
  • LETTER: Working for the state

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  • All eyes on Gordhan, even Charlie Chaplin’s
  • Creating a new identity could be Agang’s biggest opportunity

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  Rand falls further on negative sentiment

  Local currency loses further ground after it started weakening following the release of weaker-than-expected January foreign trade figures.

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  • Rand falls further on negative sentiment
  • Gold extends fall after run of monthly losses
  • Shares, euro knocked by fresh growth worries

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  • Spanish government between a rock and a hard place
  • Stricter rules needed to support growth of African bourses

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  PMI signals rebound in manufacturing sector

  Kagiso purchasing managers' index rises for second month and breaches key 50-point level for first time since August, driven by new sales orders

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  • Implementation of good ideas is key to faster growth, says S&P;
  • Trade deficit high, expected to worsen
  • The task of implementing NDP now begins
  • SA ‘treading water’ as problems mount — finance experts

  Economic Indicators

  Petrol price (95)

  R12.20

  23c/l

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  Repo rate

  5%

  -0.5pp

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  Prime rate

  8.5%

  -0.5pp

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  GDP (Q4 12)

  2.1%

  0.9pp

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  CPI (Jan)

  5.4%

  -0.3pp

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  PPI (Nov)

  5.2%

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  Last updated on February 26

  Opinion

  • All eyes on budget for news on SA’s carbon tax
  • EDITORIAL: Numbers and plans don’t add up

  Columnists

  • Brics bank may bankroll SA’s nuclear ambitions
  • Business and politics in an uneasy relationship
• Business

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  Eskom reels as regulator grants half of tariff hike

  National Energy Regulator also expected to cut raises for South Africa’s largest electricity users

  Trade & Industry

  • SA is largest buyer of Zimbabwe’s tobacco crop
  • Private sector must speed up investment in SA, says Gordhan

  Management

  • Upping the ante at SA’s universities
  • A lesson in creativity
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  • SA first African country to introduce carbon emissions tax
  • Carbon emissions tax hike not welcome, says Naamsa

   

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  Old Mutual gets boost from Nedbank, emerging market

  Full-year earnings come in better than expected, and CEO Julian Roberts says group can ‘move forward from position of strength’, with African expansion eyed

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  • Zimplats given 30 days to appeal land grab
  • Sibanye profit rises but full-year output falls after fire, strikes
  • 8ta now to be known as Telkom Mobile
  • Glencore supplied alumina to Iranian company in barter deal

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  Much of tax burden falls on the wealthy

  South Africa’s small tax base inimical to the government’s spending goals, writes Evan Pickworth

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  • Investing offshore
  • Slow credit growth likely due to lacklustre corporate demand
  • Individual taxpayers ‘cannot bear more financial strain’
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  Culture and tradition find a home in art

  Field guide Roman Ndeja is the ideal person to introduce you to the rock art at Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve, writes Penny Haw

  Arts & Entertainment

  • A peaceful place in the inner-city milieu
  • Two new galleries for Cape Town

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  • Culture and tradition find a home in art
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  • TECHNOLOGY: Apps vying to be the Instagram of mobile video
  • Nokia launches cheap phone in bid to restore lead in handsets

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  • No immortality, even for the great Hitch
  • BOOK REVIEW: Killing for Profit – Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade

  Health

  • Lung scans could save lives, but may be a smokescreen
  • M-health: a smart way to stay on top of your health

  Motoring

  • INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH: A worthy successor
• Sport

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  SA need to end Twenty20 jinx

  Lessons learnt from Black Caps defeat must be applied against Pakistan — especially how to contain rampant batsmen, of which Pakistan has no shortage

  Rugby

  • Stormers will have something to prove in the Shark Tank
  • Crusaders begin bid for eighth Super title

  soccer

  • Birds out to beat Usuthu to prove win over Bucs was no fluke
  • Barca target Real nerves over United

  Cricket

  • SA need to end Twenty20 jinx
  • MCC committee wants cricket included at 2024 Olympics

  Other Sport

  • Fichardt sets pace as Tshwane Open tees off
  • Woods supports plan to ban long putters

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  • T20 foundation has been laid, says Domingo
  • Serena gets in trouble for trying to photograph Woods
  • Benitez pleads for Chelsea support after outburst
  • QPR’s Redknapp rejects team drinking reports
  • Defending champions Chiefs rout Cheetahs
  • ‘One Gear’ Van Zyl gets revenge with title win

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