• Sat Mar 12 21:07:19 SAST 2016
• JSE Sens

• Register
• Login
  x

  Social sign-on will be unavailable while we upgrade our system. Please Click here to register.

  Login

  Forgot your password?

• Business News
  Financial Mail Business Day TV Business Times

Business Day LIVE

London not foggy on Zuma’s deflection ploys

London seizes upon suspicious patterns in South Africa without remorse, writes Simon Lincoln Reader

• Tools & Services
  Calculators Multimedia
• In Depth
  Budget 2016 Growth Engines Brics Nelson Mandela 1918-2013 Understand your country. Or lose it Election 2014 Dialogue: Renewable energy Peter Bruce Interviews Accenture Innovation Index Awards

• Home
• National

  TOP STORY

  

  Panayiotou in new bid for bail

  Panayiotou makes brief appearance for bail application based on ?new facts’ as State nears concluding its case

  Politics

  • Introducing the 2016 ANC games console
  • Trollip to ‘outline a comprehensive plan’ for the bay

  Media

  • Sunday Times launches improved mobile app
  • DA approaches High Court to set aside Motsoeneng disciplinary inquiry

  Labour

  • Cameron Morajane appointed CCMA head
  • Samwu members ‘calculate risk’ of defying Pikitup ultimatum

  Science & environment

  • Communities in drive to clean up the Duzi River
  • Farmers left out in cold over drought intervention

  Law & constitution

  • Appeal court gives Hlophe misconduct tribunal green light
  • SCA dismisses appeal by two Constitutional Court judges on Hlophe tribunal

  Education

  • Stellenbosch University ordered to implement ‘equal language’ plan
  • Stellenbosch University building torched

  Health

  • Hospitals pressed on quality of care
  • Mbeki is correct about HIV/Aids, say two local Aids dissidents

  Opinion

  • EDITORIAL: Banks offer light amid gloom
  • Rumour shades Zuma’s intimates

  Columnists

  • THICK END OF THE WEDGE: How to buy a mine for next to nothing
  • Unions return to core focus of representing workers
• Africa

  TOP STORY

  

  Dos Santos pledges to give up power in Angola in 2018

  Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has given no reason for his decision, and speculation is rife about who might succeed him

  African News

  • Migrants and refugees cross paths at an African way station
  • SA and Nigeria in deal to enhance bilateral economic co-operation
  • Zimbabwe to compensate mainly white farmers who lost land in 2000
  • MTN relief from Zuma’s Nigerian trip
  • Zuma hails Nigeria’s contribution to the struggle

  African Business

  • South Sudan is dying, and nobody is documenting these deaths
  • MTN offers $1.5bn to settle fine imposed by Nigeria
  • Sanlam’s results see share fall 6%
  • Kenyan Airways to clip wings
  • Protea to open two hotels in Kampala
  • Magic of maggots means survival for many poultry farmers in Zimbabwe

  African Perspectives

  • US must support Africa’s struggle for fair polls
  • The terror never stops in the war on terror
  • Continent’s capital loss is the $1-trillion question
  • Financial inclusion of women key to economically sustainable Africa
  • Farewell to UN’s bold, bitter and bright pharaoh

  African Leader
• World

  TOP STORY

  

  Chinese steel maker to cut about 50,000 jobs

  As China’s economy slows, Wuhan Iron and Steel says thousands of employees will ‘have to find other ways forward’

  Africa

  • Dos Santos pledges to give up power in Angola in 2018
  • MTN offers $1.5bn to settle fine imposed by Nigeria

  Europe

  • Obama pulls no punches in criticism of Cameron and Sarkozy
  • British Chambers of Commerce cuts economic growth expectations

  Asia-Pacific

  • Replacement of deadly Takata airbags proves difficult for car makers
  • Chinese steel maker to cut about 50,000 jobs

  Middle East

  • Iran will ‘never stop’ its ballistic-missile programme
  • Europe steps back in time to revive ties with Iran

  Americas

  • Obama pulls no punches in criticism of Cameron and Sarkozy
  • Twitter offers stock and cash bonuses to keep staff

  Opinion

  • Mauritius and Madagascar: two islands worlds apart
  • Advantage of investment in accurate data is often ‘literally incalculable’

  Columnists

  • SIMON BARBER: Trump’s victories put Republicans in a pickle
  • KELLY-JO BLUEN: The terror never stops in the war on terror
• Opinion

  TOP STORY

  

  Build a good energy programme and the investors will come

  Well-structured infrastructure projects will help to broaden the range and scope of co-funding partnerships with private sector investors, writes Bhavtik Vallabhjee

  Editorials

  • EDITORIAL: Banks offer light amid gloom
  • EDITORIAL: The less said the better, Mr Mbeki

  Columnists

  • PETER BRUCE: How to buy a mine for next to nothing
  • NATASHA MARRIAN: Unions return to core focus of representing workers

  Letters

  • LETTER: Boutros-Ghali an outrage in power
  • LETTER: Thatcher: pure merit

  Polls

  Third Umpire

  Cartoons
• Markets

  TOP STORY

  

  Emerging-market stocks and currencies climb to three month high

  While monetary easing from ECB encourages inflows to higher-yielding assets, investors are watching Fed, speculation that US interest rates will rise

  More News

  • Emerging-market stocks and currencies climb to three month high
  • JSE turns positive on miners as banks remain weak
  • Oil, stocks climb as industry group says oil market may have found a floor

  JSE Today

  All Share

  51739.83

  0.40%

  up

  Top 40

  45761.25

  0.47%

  up

  Financial 15

  14931.75

  -0.49%

  down

  Industrial 25

  70282.77

  0.53%

  up

  Resource 10

  29869.59

  1.03%

  up

  All data is delayed by 15 min.
  Data supplied by Profile Data

  Commodities

  Gold US$/oz

  1250.1

  -0.02%

  down

  Platinum US$/oz

  962

  0.21%

  up

  Silver US$/oz

  15.47

  -0.06%

  down

  Palladium US$/oz

  573

  0.53%

  up

  Brent Crude

  40.46

  0.70%

  up

  

  All data is delayed by 15 min.
  Data supplied by Profile Data
• Economy

  TOP STORY

  

  Brace for another rate hike, economists warn

  Economists believe 25 basis-point interest rate increase will likely be outcome of next monetary policy committee meeting

  More News

  • Build a good energy programme and the investors will come
  • Contractions in factory and mine output bode ill for the economy
  • Trade index improves, but outlook is grim
  • Rating cut looms as Moody’s flags risks
  • January manufacturing output falls 2.5% year on year

  Economic Indicators

  Petrol price

  R11.74

  -69c

  same

  Repo rate

  6.75%

  0.5pp

  same

  Prime rate

  10.25%

  0.5pp

  same

  CPI (February)

  6.2%

  1pp

  same

  PPI (February)

  7.6%

  2.8pp

  same

  Last updated March

  Opinion

  • Minimum wage is non-negotiable
  • EDITORIAL: Data show up SA’s big deficits

  Columnists

  • MICHEL PIREU: The real cost of holding debt
  • STUART THEOBALD: South African banks up for sale, but are international buyers interested?

  New Agenda
• Business

  TOP STORY

  

  Eskom to enlist help of private sector

  Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown says private sector to help bring power stations on stream as well as resurrecting old plants

  Trade & Industry

  • York shows strong growth, despite weak economy
  • Moves to revive SA’s wobbly brandy industry
  • SA and Nigeria seek closer trade and investment ties

  Management

  • Women should try a variety of leadership styles in order to gain influence
  • Number of women in leadership roles in SA declines
  • Productivity can jack up job creation

  Innovation

  • Insect protein on menu of the future
  • Even the smallest nations can benefit from space technology
  • NationBuilder opens gateway to influence

  Sectors

  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Land & Agriculture
  • Media & Advertising

   

  • Mining
  • Property
  • Retail & Consumer
  • Telecoms & Technology
  • Transport & Tourism

  Banker SA

  SA Mining
• Companies

  TOP STORY

  

  ARM to ‘critically review’ unprofitable operations

  Diversified mining company says it will cut costs, improve mines and seek to ensure that shareholder funding is minimised

  More News

  • MTN offers $1.5bn to settle fine imposed by Nigeria
  • Old Mutual to separate its four units and reduce stake in Nedbank
  • Falling commodity prices take toll on ARM
  • MTN cautions investors on reports about Nigerian fine
  • Old Mutual posts strong results as it announces breakup

  Sectors

  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Land & Agriculture
  • Media & Advertising

   

  • Mining
  • Property
  • Retail & Consumer
  • Telecoms & Technology
  • Transport & Tourism
• Life

  TOP STORY

  

  Walter Sisulu square in Soweto lacks the pulling power of Vilakazi Street

  Kliptown’s Walter Sisulu square, 4.5km from Vilakazi Street, is where the Freedom Charter was officially adopted and signed on June 26 1955

  Arts & Entertainment

  • South African animation series makes mark in Africa
  • Picturing the arc of life from rural to urban

  Travel & Food

  • Walter Sisulu square in Soweto lacks the pulling power of Vilakazi Street
  • Dale-Roberts’ pop-up at The Saxon puts down roots

  Wanted Magazine

  Gadgets & Gear

  • Sunday Times launches improved mobile app
  • Bosch sets up ‘cloud’ for smart devices

  Books

  • US author Pat Conroy dead at 70
  • BOOK REVIEW: The Boy Who Could Change the World

  Health

  • Izzard more than halfway through 27 marathons in 27 days charity quest in SA
  • Margarine’s popularity against butter spreads

  Motoring

  • INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH: Mercedes E-Class miles ahead of the tech game
  • GENEVA MOTOR SHOW: Star cars in the limelight
• Sport

  TOP STORY

  

  Proteas: Why De Kock must stay

  If you ditch De Kock, it means recall to chore behind the stumps for De Villiers, who is supposedly more prepared to keep wicket at T20 level

  Rugby

  • Second-placed Blitzboks ready for crucial Vancouver leg of sevens series
  • Why Ackermann’s Lions are setting a trend

  soccer

  • Tetchy coach opts for shaky Bafana squad
  • Leicester to turn screws on battling Newcastle

  Cricket

  • Proteas: Why De Kock must stay
  • Phangiso: chucker to pukka in one week
  • Amla shows the way, but Aussies grab the victory
  • No room at top of the innings for Amla

  Other Sport

  • Lions succumb to Highlanders
  • Sharapova lashes out at critics over positive test
  • New and old Epic entrants to vie for top spot left by legend Sauser
  • Dubai invite for superstar Harry’s Son
  • Tennis players rocked by Sharapova’s admission

Times Media (Pty) Ltd disclaims all liability for any loss, damage, injury or expense however caused, arising from the use of or reliance upon, in any manner, the information provided through this service and does not warrant the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information provided.