South Africa still ranks as the most attractive economy for investments destined for the continent despite challenges emanating from slow growth, a gloomy ratings outlook and waning perceptions, EY said in an index released Wednesday. The auditing and advisory company has also predicted a tough few years ahead for the[…]
New “world class experts” will be called when the hearing into Professor Tim Noakes’s conduct by the Health Professions Council of SA continues in October, he has confirmed. But the banting advocate is mum on who the “high powered” scientists will be. “I can’t wait [for proceedings to resume],” he told[…]
For the last nine months, more than R750 000 in insurance claims had been submitted by the City of Cape Town’s Health Directorate due to an ongoing cycle of crime and vandalism at local clinics, the City said on Tuesday. This, in addition to an already increased budget for security[…]
The pensions of government employees lost R95 billion in the two days last December that Des van Rooyen was finance minister‚ the CEO of the Public Investment Corporation‚ Dan Matjila‚ told Parliament on Tuesday. Dr Matjila‚ who was briefing Parliament’s portfolio committee on finance‚ said that the investments had “significantly[…]
Oxford scholar Ntokozo Qwabe is adamant that waitress Ashleigh Schultz was not reduced to tears in the controversy he describes as “tipgate”. “You must distinguish between the story as it happened and the story as it is told by the media‚” he told journalists in Johannesburg on Monday. He said[…]
Protesting students and security guards at Stellenbosch University clashed on Monday after a shack that had been erected on university property was demolished. A group who call themselves The Concerned Students took responsibility for placing the shack on the university’s Rooiplein (Red Square), next to a statue of Jan Marais.[…]
Unemployment has hit its highest on record, hurting efforts to convince ratings agencies Standard and Poor’s and Fitch not to downgrade South Africa’s credit rating Stats SA reported yesterday that unemployment had risen to 26.7% of the labour force in the first quarter of this year — the highest since[…]
Can a practical, but legal, interim solution be found to ensure that upcoming local government elections proceed? This was the question posed by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng during yesterday’s Constitutional Court hearing. The court was hearing an application for leave to appeal by the Independent Electoral Commission against a judgment[…]
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and his four co-accused are expected back in High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday for the 2013 murder of Lebanese national Sam Issa. The trial has been bogged down by a series of delays. One of his co-accused, Siboniso Miya has been accused of contacting “a[…]
Rhodes scholar and student activist Ntokozo Qwabe has accused the ANC of being anti-black. Addressing reporters following what he called “tip gate”, Qwabe said “‘this is not a government that is pro black”. “The ANC doesn’t get it and we have reconciled ourselves with that.” Qwabe, who was one of[…]
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