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Glencore’s Rustenburg ferrochrome smelter remains idled
By: Martin Creamer Updated 56 minutes ago Pending an improved price and cost environment, Glencore said in its first-quarter 2024 production report on Tuesday that its Rustenburg... →
DMRE announces petrol price increase, diesel price decrease for May
By: Creamer Media Reporter Updated 59 minutes ago The price of petrol, both 93 and 95, will increase by 37c/ℓ as of May 1, while diesel prices will decrease by 30c/ℓ and 36c/ℓ for 0.05% sulphur and... →
Gold Fields CFO takes early retirement
By: Martin Creamer Updated 2 hours ago Gold Fields long-serving CFO Paul Schmidt, who is also an executive director of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed gold mining company, is to... →
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How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa
29th April 2024 Political history scholar Jonny Steinberg’s 2023 book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africa’s most famous... →
Owning a gun in South Africa offers some safety, but risks run high for users and society – expert
29th April 2024 South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, eclipsed only by Honduras and a handful of Caribbean island states. Furthermore,... →
South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs
26th April 2024 South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research. Some of the country’s researchers have made major... →
Boko Haram factional violence worries Islamic State
26th April 2024 In its quest to expand beyond North East Nigeria, JAS–ISWAP clashes aren’t in the global terror group’s interests. In October 2023, Boko Haram’s... →
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With Regard to Borders and Ballots
29th April 2024 The IEC has confirmed that South Africa has 340 parties registered provincially and nationally and thus eligible to participate in the 2024... →
The Making of Manifestos and the Marginalisation of Migrants: A Causal Link?
29th April 2024 Election fever has been ratcheted up several notches over the past few weeks, as one by one various political parties have launched their election... →
Triple billion targets policy solutions matrix
26th April 2024 The Triple Billion Targets Policy Solutions Matrix has been developed to help bridge the step from data to delivery by collating some of the latest... →
Global economic fracturing and shifting investment patterns
26th April 2024 The report spotlights 10 major shifts in global foreign direct investment (FDI). It reveals how the combination of structural transformations in... →
Statements
ActionSA Demands Immediate Withdrawal of ANC Letter Urging Diplomats Campaign Abroad
Updated 35 minutes ago ActionSA has received a deeply disturbing letter from the ANC Secretary General’s Office, which appears to have been circulated to South African... →
Pravin Gordhan should account for Eskom's diesel expenditure before he departs
Updated 1 hour 19 minutes ago The inefficiency of blowing nearly R45 Billion on diesel over the past two years (up to end-March 2024) to mitigate the impact of regular... →
It’s the Final Countdown! – 30 Days To Election Day
29th April 2024 The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) marks the official 30-day countdown to the 29th of May National and Provincial Election. In marking the final four... →
WC unanimously rejects BELA Bill in final mandate
29th April 2024 The Western Cape Provincial Parliament's Standing Committee on Education today met to consider the final version of the controversial Basic... →
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PRECCA updates emphasise third-party accountability and proactive anti-corruption
Updated 52 minutes ago South Africa is continuously suffering from the effects of corruption and drainage of resources, some of which were highlighted in the State... →
LAC finds that an employee who was dimissed for recreational cannabis use at home was unfairly discriminated against
29th April 2024 In the recent case of Enever v Barloworld Equipment South Africa, a Division of Barloworld South Africa (Pty) Ltd (JA86/22) [2024] ZALAC (23 April... →
Herbert Smith Freehills promotes Ernst Müller to director in Johannesburg
29th April 2024 Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is promoting Ernst Müller to director. His appointment takes effect on 1 May 2024. Ernst is... →
How the two-pot system will affect the hospitality industry
29th April 2024 Allowing financially stretched fund members to withdraw a limited amount of money from their pension savings from what’s known as a savings pot,... →