AN INVESTIGATION of alleged financial mismanagement in a state body responsible for taking telecoms services to the poor will land its chief financial officer up in a disciplinary hearing.
DE BEERS unveiled its R630m Finsch mine treatment plant upgrade yesterday. It is designed to find more diamonds and use less water at its operation near Lime Acres, Northern Cape.
THE newly appointed CE of plastic packaging manufacturer Astrapak, Marco Baglione, said yesterday the listed group has embarked on a series of reviews to come up with strategies to survive the downturn in the economy, which he warned could last
MAJOR operations at the Lumwana Mining Company in Solwezi have been suspended after fire swept through a 20MVA transformer and a 11kV substation, causing damage estimated to be in millions of dollars.
THE first of a spate of light aircraft crashes that have happened in Namibia since October last year was probably the result of the use of a wrong mixture of fuel and air as the aircraft took off from Eros
SOUTH African listed property - which has now lost 37,1% of its value since November last year due to soaring inflation and interest rates - is starting to look attractive to investors, say analysts.
In the first five months of this year, Mozambique's rail systems handled 1.65 million tonnes of freight, an increase of 9.2 per cent on the figure for the same period in 2007, according to a report in Wednesday's issue of
SEVERAL prospective investors who tried to buy Sasol's Inzalo shares in the past few days may have missed out due to technical glitches at the Post Office.
Investments in research and development of projects in the Mozambican mining sector have been growing every year since 2001, and by 2007 the total invested had reached 686 million US dollars.
WIDESPREAD criticism of "unworkable" demands made on bidders for new licences to offer high-speed internet access have forced the regulator to reconsider its stance.
SA WAS prepared to make concessions to help push through a multilateral trade deal, but the ability of developing countries to move would be determined by what the US and the European Union were prepared to concede in terms of
THE leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) leading industrial nations have tried hard to talk down oil prices during their meeting in Japan, warning of the dangers to the world economy if prices stay too high for too long.
SA COULD be heading into a recession before the end of this year, as higher interest rates and inflation curb consumer spending, Moody's Investors Service said yesterday.
The possibility of increasing social grants to bring them in line with increases in the inflation rate was one of the options raised in a report on the effect of escalating food prices on the poor, health director-general Thami Mseleku
