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The latest Standard Bank South Africa Purchasing Managers’ Index paints a bleak picture of the South African economy, signalling the most marked deterioration in operating conditions in over one-and-a-half years. The Standard Bank survey produced by

Ronald Wayne. Never heard of him, right? Most people haven’t. Yet he one of the triumvirate who co-founded Apple, alongside the two Steves – Jobs and Wozniak. As Apple, today the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, celebrates the 40th

FNB Life announced on Monday that consumers can now take up funeral plans through nearly 6 700 FNB ATMs and Slimline devices across the country. The insurance distributor and administrator’s CEO, Lee Bromfield, said in a statement that making

A merger of troubled state-owned telecommunications infrastructure company Broadband Infraco and Telkom, in which government holds a 39,8% direct stake, looks increasingly certain, a report published on Monday said. Business Day said Infraco has indicated in

Millions of traffic fines issued in Johannesburg and Pretoria have apparently become unenforceable due to the Road Traffic Infringement Agency’s failure to pay its bill at the Post Office. The RTIA is the entity responsible for the administration

The constitution is the social contract between government and the people and it determines how the country moves towards a better future, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday. “Once our actions are seen to be incongruent with this

South Africa is an overtaxed and uncompetitive country that is inching closer to junk status, according to chairman of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse Wayne Duvenage. He was

The South African Revenue Services (Sars) has never collected more than a trillion rand in taxes before — until now. “Gross tax revenue for the fiscal year came in at R1,0699 trillion or R0,2bn more than the February estimate,” Sars commissioner