South Africans can expect a tough two years ahead as the economy feels the pinch of strikes, analysts said on Thursday. “Unless we have sensible heads putting their hands up now, we’re going to see a [downward] spiral for the next few years,” said
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Gauteng motorists will know on Friday how e-tolling will be implemented, the inter-ministerial committee on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) said. “The committee will be making an announcement on Friday on how the e-tolls will be implemented,” spokesman Thabo Masebe said on Wednesday
Science & technology minister Naledi Pandor has been appointed by President Jacob Zuma as minister of home affairs, the presidency said on Wednesday. Deputy science minister Derek Hanekom will take over as minister of science & technology. “I congratulate Ms Pandor and Mr Hanekom
Cell C has cut the cost of using broadband late at night in an effort to fill its network during periods of low usage. The company has introduced two new bundles, under the GigaNite branding, which provides lower-cost Internet access between midnight and 6am daily. Customers can bolt on either
Telkom Business has introduced new mobile broadband products which it says provide sufficient data monthly to allow buyers to run a small business for prices starting at R249/month. The new packages include a month-to-month contract option, called Data Max 15GB, that offers 15GB of data a month
SA youth are not as enthusiastic about entrepreneurship as their counterparts abroad and could be short-changing themselves, an expert said on Tuesday. Kobus Engelbrecht, of the Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year competition, said the 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) SA report found that
Black economic empowerment is still vital in SA, trade & industry minister Rob Davies said on Tuesday. “We cannot expect to grow and develop as a country if the leadership of the economy is still in the hands of only a small minority of the society,” he said. Davies was speaking at the
Consumers could go and buy their e-toll tags, as the transport department was busy concluding talks on the matter, minister Ben Martins has said, Beeld reported on Tuesday. Speaking at the launch of national transport month in Soweto on Monday, Martins said more precise plans around the
Telkom may have broken JSE listing rules when it did not notify its shareholders that two of its directors would retire from the board this month, according to Monday’s Business Report newspaper. The two, Jackie Huntley and Julia Hope, would be retiring after Telkom’s annual general meeting on 24 October
Picture this: it is Thursday evening, 8pm. You have spent the past three days working flat out on a deadline for work. But it is done now and you are finally home — kicking off your shoes and sinking into the couch with your favourite dinner. Aaah. The long-awaited evening in. A wave of contentment washes