THE role of the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) in the rand’s depreciation by reducing the net open forward position (NOFP) may have been unduly exaggerated, it appears from the interim report of the Myburgh Commission of inquiry into the fall of the currency released on Friday.
Contraventions of exchange control regulations in a transaction involving Nampak and Deutsche Bank should be referred to the prosecuting authority.
No university should use Afrikaans as its single medium of instruction, according to a policy framework for higher education approved by Cabinet on Wednesday.
Some say that China’s Great Wall can be seen from the moon. Now there is a new beacon on the Chinese horizon, Shanghai’s 460m-high Jin Mao skyscraper. Its name means ”golden prosperity”.
Medical students at the University of Pretoria could fight a proposed extra year of internship in the High or Constitutional court.
The council of the University of South Africa has accepted the resignation of its chairman, McCaps Motimele, and said Unisa would not pay for the settlement of a sexual harassment dispute between Motimele and a former staff member, Professor Margaret Orr.