STATE-employed doctors, specialists and dentists will from Wednesday no longer be allowed to run private practices, the Government Communication and Information System announced on Tuesday. Previously, doctors employed by the government were allowed to engage in Limited Private Practice to suplement their income. The practice had to be conducted outside of their normal 40-hour week. […]
THE SOUTH African Revenue Service lowered the interest rate it charges on overdue taxes on Friday, from 16% to 14,5% per annum. The move is due to recent trends in interest rates. SARS also cut the rate paid on overpaid tax from 12% to 10,5% per year.
THE Heath special investigation unit is investigating evidence linking South African Rugby Football Union president and acting judge Silas Nkanunu to fraud related to compensation paid to road accident victims. The Heath unit is considering at least 15 cases, involving millions of rands, where Nkanunu and his Port Elizabeth legal firm are alleged to have […]
PETER HUWELE of LibLife AC won R10 000 on Sunday in a finely-judged victory in the 50km City to City race — his first major run in nine months. Huwele’s teammates also took top honours in the race –from Johannesburg to Centurion, south of Pretoria — including Helene Joubert, who retained the women’s title she […]
SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallet named his World Cup squad on Sunday, ending weeks of painful speculation. Percy Montgomery has been retained, following his return to form in the recent Australia match, and Joost van der Westhuizen will captain the squad. Bob Skinstad, Anton Leonard and Johan Erasmus are included as eighth men. Os du Randt […]
FORMER world champion Frankie Fredericks pulled out of Friday’s 200m final because of injury. Fredericks has been complaining all week of running injured and after a meeting with his doctor on Friday the Namibian decided not to run. He is suffering from an infected nerve in his left hamstring. “Frankie has been in extreme pain […]
THE draw for the final round of African qualifiers for the Olympic soccer tournament,as released by the Confederation of African Football on Saturday is as follows: Group A: October 16 – Uganda v Zimbabwe, Kampala October 16 – Nigeria v Angola, Lagos October 31 – Angola v Uganda, Luanda October 31 – Zimbabwe v Nigeria, […]
HUNDREDS of ‘ghost’ graduates at the University of the North may get away with buying their degrees because no-one has bothered conducting a proper investigation into the scam since it was first identified in 1994. University officials insisted last week that the matter has been investigated and resolved by both the Mojapelo Commission and Judge […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Tuesday 5.00pm THE local markets had no excuse to continue their recent lacklustre performances on Tuesday as they were hit with a barrage of domestic news. And yet markets all but ignored the, looking instead to international markets which hit a skid after the influential Dow Jones industrial average on […]
SYNTHETIC oil firm Sasol announced on Tuesday that its turnover was up by 15,1% to almost R19,2-billion in the year to June. Sasol said in a statement that its and operating profits increased by 18,6% to R3,7-billion over that period. The company said profits attributable to shareholders increased by 19,5% while dividends per share increased […]