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So, Zuma’s going won’t help? Don’t you believe it!

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  President Jacob Zuma's brother urges him to quit

  Michael Zuma and his wife Thembekile MaXulu Zuma have expressed their fears for the president’s life

  Politics

  • ANC cannot pretend ‘things are not wrong in SA’, says Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
  • Gupta PR firm knew about Zwane's banks inquiry before it was announced

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  • Will Hlaudi Motsoeneng still earn R3.7m a year as a ‘normal’ SABC employee?
  • ‘I don’t know stress,’ Hlaudi Motsoeneng tells mourners at Mandoza’s funeral

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  • Cosatu praises ACDP’s ‘progressive’ proposal for more parental leave
  • Cosatu wobbles again amid ANC succession battle

  Science & environment

  • Cites forum crucial for conserving resources
  • Where will SA put lethal nuclear waste?

  Law & constitution

  • Jiba to appeal against being struck off roll
  • Nomgcobo Jiba will stay at NPA until appeal decided, her lawyer says

  Education

  • Cyril Ramaphosa says ‘corridors of power’ are hearing students’ cries
  • Black South Africans spend more on education relative to other races

  Health

  • LETTER FROM WASHINGTON: Sugar tax debate produces no clear winners
  • Experts appointed to assist with probe into death of 36 psychiatric patients

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  • Cites forum crucial for conserving resources
  • EDITORIAL: Ineptitude rules on student fees

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  • Cosatu wobbles again amid ANC succession battle
  • Focus must be skills not degrees
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  Chinese group chosen to design $2.1bn power plant in Zimbabwe

  RioZim is lobbying Eskom to buy from the facility to help attract investors

  African News

  • Life resumes in Kinshasa after army subdues Kabila protests
  • Botswana breaks ranks with neighbours on ivory trade ahead of UN meeting
  • Smaller protests continue in DRC amid heavy army presence
  • INTERVIEW: Time for Mugabe to go, says Botswana President Khama
  • Activists ‘disrespecting’ Zimbabwe’s flag could land in jail, state threatens

  African Business

  • Chinese group chosen to design $2.1bn power plant in Zimbabwe
  • How the DBSA can help build a new Africa
  • Trade and industry department to lead business mission to Nigeria
  • Nigeria hunts down 700,000 firms in tax crackdown to offset oil slump
  • Private equity firms capitalise on demand for healthcare in Africa
  • Sudan bans Egyptian fruit, vegetable and fish imports

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  UN holds urgent talks as air strikes pound Aleppo

  France and UK assert that war crimes have been committed in Syria’s battered city of Aleppo

  Africa

  • Chinese group chosen to design $2.1bn power plant in Zimbabwe
  • Trade and industry department to lead business mission to Nigeria

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  • No EU-US free trade deal before Obama’s presidency is over
  • Last company settles in scrap metal competition probe

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  • Certain Grab users in Singapore suburb can now book driverless cars
  • When Hanjin Shipping began sinking, the Choi family ran for the lifeboats

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  • UN holds urgent talks as air strikes pound Aleppo
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  • No EU-US free trade deal before Obama’s presidency is over

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  • EDITORIAL: Tempting Apple out of reach
  • Bold forecasts, but the blockchain numbers do not add up

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  • LETTER FROM WASHINGTON: Big Pharma has drugged greedy US politicians
  • Divisive Sarkozy back on the presidential train
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  SA is not failing to meet its climate change obligations

  The complaint to the public protector does not consider certain realities and the timing of implementing climate change policies in SA, writes Edna Molewa

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  • EDITORIAL: Who will heed Pityana’s call?
  • EDITORIAL: Ineptitude rules on student fees

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  • EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Fancy being paid to commute?
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  Futures firmer in line with the JSE

  Local futures were firmer on Friday in line with the JSE, which closed marginally higher despite all major global markets trading in negative terrain

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  • Futures firmer in line with the JSE
  • Bonds softer in line with rand
  • Rand softer after recent rallies

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  Top 40

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  Financial 15

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  Industrial 25

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  Resource 10

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  Gold US$/oz

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  Platinum US$/oz

  1053

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  Silver US$/oz

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  Palladium US$/oz

  699

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  Premier David Makhura appeals for business support to create jobs

  Business has been invited by Gauteng premier David Makhura to back the provincial government’s township stock exchange plan to grow a more inclusive economy

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  • Inflation outlook improves but no rate cuts just yet
  • De Beers CEO voices stability fears
  • Average inflation expectations for 2017 moderate, survey shows
  • Reserve Bank raises growth forecast as it keeps rates on hold
  • Average inflation expectations for 2017 moderate, survey shows

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  Last company settles in scrap metal competition probe

  The tribunal has confirmed the commission’s settlement with Ben Jacobs Iron and Steel over price-fixing and market division

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  • Weaponry for Africa and some chinks in the armour
  • Stronger construction activity pushes up civil confidence index
  • US trade policy will shift after Obama, Davies tells MPs

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  Eskom CEO Brian Molefe says it won’t waste a lot of time talking to Futuregrowth

  Eskom is adequately funded, says CEO Brian Molefe, and won’t "waste a lot of time" engaging with Futuregrowth on its decision to stop lending to the power generator

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  • Tawana acquires second lithium project
  • Rockwell’s new head pulls no punches on what is wrong at the diamond miner
  • ARC moves to acquire 18.36% stake in Afrimat
  • Vodacom signs R1bn deal to exploit Prasa’s fibre-optic network

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  FIRST DRIVE: Porsche panache in the Black Forest

  First came the 718 Boxster roadster. Now, the Porsche 718 Cayman coupe — which Lerato Matebese drove in Germany’s Black Forest

  Arts & Entertainment

  • Trevor Noah is coming home to MAMAs
  • WATCH: The FNB Johannesburg Art Fair

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  • LIQUID INVESTMENTS: Cluver sets ball rolling with new releases in Gauteng

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  • Why purging is so bad for your mind
  • A buzzing economy helps keep malaria at bay

  Motoring

  • FIRST DRIVE: Porsche panache in the Black Forest
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  New Zealand fought a lone battle on Super Rugby revamp, says Steve Tew

  The country’s rugby boss says SA and Australia are blocking efforts to change the 18-team tournament’s cumbersome format

  Rugby

  • New Zealand fought a lone battle on Super Rugby revamp, says Steve Tew
  • Springbok coaching job a poisoned chalice, says Hoskins

  soccer

  • Park the bus in Atteridgeville at your peril, warns Sundowns' Pitso Mosimane
  • Derby a chance to revive rivalry

  Cricket

  • Bavuma can make mark in one-dayers
  • Ireland expected to put up a bit of a fight against SA
  • The transformation quagmire
  • Will new Aussie caps be able to take scalps?

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  • Jockeys called from far and wide for Heritage
  • Day has his eyes on PGA Tour prize despite back injury
  • Delpech to partner Smart Call in UK debut
  • Fewer medals, but a new star born
  • Rookies no issue for European Ryder Cup team