The Presidents of France and South Africa today called for urgent investments globally to create new jobs in the health sector in order to prevent a projected shortfall of 18 million health workers primarily in low- and lower-middle-income countries, and help countries to maximize the…
AngloGold Ashanti today announced strong free cash flow in the first quarter as an ongoing focus on cost management, and leverage to weaker currencies, yielded positive results and improved margins. Free cash flow was $70m, a marked improvement to the outflow of $40m in the…
The Inkatha Freedom Party is concerned by the wanton destruction of privately owned businesses as well as state property stemming from community dissatisfaction with the selection of candidates for the forthcoming local government elections. “We understand that democratic principles must inform the way candidates are…
ʼn Versoek van die VF Plus aan die voorsiter van die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor handel en nywerheid om dringend in te gryp in ʼn poging om die staalvervaardiger Highveld Steel van ondergang te red, het vrugte afgewerp sê adv. Anton Alberts, die VF Plus se…
Die minister van finansies se begroting kan as ʼn "terug na basiese ekonomiese grondwaarhede" beskryf word. Die minister het fiskale dissipline beklemtoon met die voorneme om miljarde te bespaar deur beter beheer oor staatsaankope en deur besparing. Dit is stappe in die regte rigting. Die…
The President of the Republic is akin to being the Chairperson of South Africa Incorporated, with ministers appointed to sit on a board; they serve 5 years tenure with the people of South Africa as shareholders. Accounting for every fiscal cent spent should be clearly…
Die VF Plus het die voorsiter van die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor handel en nywerheid in ʼn skrywe versoek om dringend in te gryp in ʼn poging om die staalvervaardiger Highveld Steel van ondergang te red," sê adv. Anton Alberts, die VF Plus se parlementêre woordvoerder…
Johannesburh - 12 February 2016 – Global GDP will only grow by 2.8% in 2016 and not reach 3% until 2017 claims Euler Hermes, the worldwide leader in trade credit insurance. In its latest Economic Outlook report, titled "The seven dwarfs of global growth", the…
‘African Start-Up’: Sibongile Sambo Founder of SRS Aviation, Johannesburg This week, CNN’s ‘African Start-Up’ meets an entrepreneur whose love for flying paved the way to a successful private aviation business. When Sibongile Sambo founded SRS Aviation in 2004, she had little collateral. Now, her Johannesburg-based…
2015 has been another year of record levels of M&A, with many corporates paying eye-watering sums to do strategic, transformational deals, according to Allen & Overy’s latest M&A Insights Report. Globally, deal values are up by 22% compared with last year to reach an unprecedented…