Land reform has always been a popular part of political rhetoric for a democratic South Africa, but agrarian transformation has not been realized in the post-apartheid era. The vast majority of agricultural land is still owned by whites. Black landowners

Finance minister Tendai Biti has projected a rise in government revenue next year, despite the current dwindling of monthly revenue he said had reached a "plateau". Biti told parliament last week that monthly revenue generated since June had remained stagnant,

Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) is going ahead with mining at its Marange Diamond Mine in direct contempt of a High Court order, business digest can reveal. Documents to hand show that ZMDC management ignored the court ruling barring the

Construction firm Erbacon Investment Holdings, which yesterday posted an 18% increase in headline earnings per share to 22,87c for the six months ended August, said it remained optimistic that public sector infrastructure spend would maintain sizeable momentum over the medium

A good quality property portfolio spread across retail, offices and industrial assets is paying handsomely for the listed property unit trust, Fountainhead Property Trust, which posted a 8,1% rise in net distributions per unit to 52c for the year to

MTN yesterday reported a modest 5% increase in subscriber numbers to 108,467-million boosted by growth in most of its key markets.

Standard Bank 's strategic alliance with leading Russian investment bank Troika Dialog will create opportunities for the bank to do cross-border transactions for Russian corporate clients who want to invest outside Russia -- and though Africa will be at the

Brait SA held up well through a difficult operating environment and lifted its interim dividend to 89,77c per share from 89,45c a year earlier.

COAL of Africa (CoAL) is planning to raise about R720m in a share placing to fund its proposed acquisition of unlisted junior miner NuCoal Mining.

South Africa's state-owned utility Eskom's Chief Executive Officer Jacob Maroga has denied that he was asked to resign by the utility's board.

The current spell of political uncertainty in the country could not have come at a worse time. Investor confidence had improved considerably following the crafting of reasonable economic policies early this year. Both the private sector and government hosted several

Zimbabwes troubled financial system is exposed following revelations by the IMF that the Reserve Bank has continued to channel statutory reserves to finance quasi-fiscal projects, which has rendered it incapable of backing up banks.

Michael Osborne says I am wrong to state that the South African government has given its "blessing" to the claims against certain multinational corporations in American courts (The facts of the matter, Letters, October 28). He quibbles.

There has been a slight increase in South Africa's unemployment rate, according to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Thursday.

THE Government has said that it acquired a loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support vulnerable families under the food crisis response programme for 2009 and 2010 after member countries of the financial institution made the request.

The Ministry of Agriculture is working on a proposal asking Cabinet to make land readily available to citizens.

Angola's contention for the position of Africa's leading petroleum resource producer gained more points weekend when the country's reserves capacity received a boost with a deepwater hit.

I consider the publication and launch of the first Namibian youth theatre anthology as a crowning achievement on three years of consistent hard work and a pioneering milestone for literature development in the country."

It seem to me as if every taxi has it's own price. Just the other day I got into a taxi and this taxi driver tells me that I should pay N$15 to work because, apparently the place where I

One of the basic tenets of the law of taxation is that it must be certain. That is what the theory says. The practice in Namibia could not give a damn about such understandings.